Arthur Breitman
Co-founder of Tezos
Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos, is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Arthur has a background in mathematics, and prior to the Tezos project, he worked in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and as a research engineer at Google and Waymo. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU, where he studied applied mathematics. Arthur is a member of the Tezos Foundation Council and is also a director at Trilitech, a London-based adoption team for the Tezos blockchain.
All Sessions by Arthur Breitman
Keynote: Stablecoins in 2026: How Today’s Building Blocks Create Tomorrow’s Systemic Risk (And What To Do About It)
Two corporate issuers control roughly 85% of the total $300+ billion stablecoin supply today. The largest banks are building proprietary settlement networks closed to smaller institutions. Big Tech platforms are systematically capturing the customer relationship layer that banks once owned. The GENIUS Act may have opened the door for community bank participation, but the stablecoin landscape is consolidating at scale faster than participants recognize. This keynote examines how the latest monetary tectonic shift is shaping capital flows and control, applying the context of financial crisis history to diagnose systemic risks emerging from the current trajectory. It also explores the solution at hand: stablecoin infrastructure that is decentrally governed at every level.
