Welcome to Consensus
Consensus by CoinDesk unites professionals across the globe for an immersive virtual experience aimed at exploring the evolution of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. As CoinDesk’s largest event of the year, this four-day experience will bring together more than 10,000 attendees across a variety of educational panels, workshops, keynotes, fire-side chats, networking experiences and more for an up-close look at the good, the bad, the ups, the downs, the excesses and the optimism of crypto. CONSENSUS BY THE NUMBERS (2020) 22,000+ registrants 4,800+ one-on-one meetings 400+ speakers 100+ countries 40+ partners
A Look Back
A New Hope - Most observers had left bitcoin and blockchain for dead by 2015. But 400 enthusiasts and a major bank, Citi, showed up in a hotel ballroom in New York City for the inaugural Consensus.
We’re Still Here - Lightning struck again as Consensus 2016 showed the industry was alive and emerging from the doldrums. It was headlined by a 20 year-old Canadian named Vitalik Buterin who discussed a new decentralized smart contract platform called Ethereum.
Priming the Pump - Consensus 2017 came right as the initial coin offering craze was heating up and contentious bitcoin scalability questions were front and center. This proved to be the kindling that helped ignite the historic price boom later in the year.
Cryptopalooza - If there was ever an event that made crypto’s hype, passion, FOMO and extravagance real, it was Consensus 2018. With treasuries flush with cash from the coin offering craze and bull market spirits at their peak, 9,000 people flooded the Midtown Hilton for this memorable event.
Hangover Edition - The animal spirits of 2018 quickly gave way to a painful trough of disillusionment, but Consensus 2019 brought a breath of fresh air and highlighted the resolve of builders pressing ahead despite the bear market. The event was highlighted by an appearance by presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Covid Edition - Forced to pivot on the fly because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Consensus 2020 took on a virtual flavor. With our partners in Asia and Europe, we repackaged the program into a 24-hour television broadcast that aired consecutively through the bitcoin halvening.
Past Sponsors
Companies in Attendance
Aberdeen, Inc.
Accenture
Airbnb
Airbus
Amazon
Amazon Web Services
Ambisafe
American Family Insurance
Amway
Anheuser-Busch InBev
ANT FINANCIAL
Apple
Ark
Attorney-General's Chambers of Bermuda
Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)
B2Broker
B3i
Baker Marquart LLP
Banco Santander
Bancor
Bank of America
Bank of Ireland
Bank of Montreal
Barclays
BBVA
Beijing Coldlar Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Bentley
Bermuda Monetary Authority
Bitfinex
bitFlyer
Bitfury
Bitgo
BITMAIN
BitMEX
BitPay
BitPesa
Bitsane
Bitstamp
Bittrex
Bloq
BNP Paribas
BNY Mellon
Boeing Company
BofA Merrill Lynch
Brave
BroadRiver Asset Management
Bunker Capital
Cambridge Blockchain
Canaccord Genuity
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Capgemini
Capital One
Carnegie Mellon
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CFTC
Chamber of Digital Commerce
CipherTrace, Inc.
Circle
Cisco
Citi
Citizens Bank
CME Group
Cognizant
Coinbase
Commonwealth Bank Australia
Condé Nast
ConsenSys
Credit Suisse
Daimler Trucks North America
Davis Polk
Deloitte
Department of Defense
Department of State
Department of Treasury
Deutsche Bank
Discover
DLA Piper
Ernst & Young LLP
eToro
ExxonMobil
FDIC
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
FedEx Corporation
Fidelity Investments
Foxconn HCM Capital
Fundstrat Global Advisors, LLC
Galaxy Digital
GE Ventures
Goldman Sachs
Goodwin Procter LLP
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Government of Anguilla
Government of Bermuda
Government of Canada
Govt. of Maharashtra, India
Grayscale Investments
Harbor
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office
IBM
J.P Morgan
Jane Street
John Hancock
Johnson & Johnson
Key Bank
Kingdom Trust
Korea Financial Investment Association
KPMG
LG
Lionsgate Group Ltd
Mastercard
McDonald's Corporation
Mercedes Benz Financial Services
MetLife
Microsoft
Moody's Analytics
Morgan Stanley
National Bank of Canada
National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Nationwide
Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets
Nokia
NTT DATA
OnStar Computer Services
Oppenheimer & Co
Oracle
PayPal
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
PNC Financial Services
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial
Publix
PwC
R3
Royal Bank of Canada
S&P Global
Samsung
San Juan Mercantile Exchange
Santander
SAP
SBI Holdings, Inc.
Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement
Sequoia Capital
Shell
Silver Lake
Snap Inc
Spotify
Square Inc.
State Farm Insurance
State of Illinois
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Swiss Re
Synechron
TAG
Tata Consultancy Services
TCS
TD Bank
U.S. Bank
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. House of Representatives
Uber
Union Square Ventures
United States Peace Corps
UPS
US Securities & Exchange Commission
USAA
USPS
VanEck/MVIS
Vanguard Group
Visa
Wedbush Securities
Wells Fargo
Western Union
World Bank Group
Media in Attendance
Adweek
Barron's
BBC
Bloomberg
Breaker
Business Insider
BuzzFeed News
CBS News
Cheddar Inc.
China Business Network
Chosunbiz
CNBC
Condé Nast
Dow Jones
El País Newspaper
Epoch Times
Fairfax Media
Fast Company
Financial Times
Forbes
Fortune
French Vogue
Futurism
Hedge Fund Alert
iHeartMedia
Inc.com
Jinse Finance
Kyber Network
MarketWatch
Mashable
MIT Technology Review
New York Post
New York Times
Newsweek
Nikkei
PCMag
Politico
Profit & Loss
Quartz
Recode
Reuters
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Tearsheet
TechCrunch
The Associated Press
The Hill
The New Yorker
The Street
The Verge
The Wall Street Journal
Thomson Reuters
TideiSun Group/iSun TV
U.S. News & World Report
Wall Street Journal
Wired
Yahoo Finance