Ripple Swell 2026
27 October 2026 – 29 October 2026
The Shed, New York, United States
Swell 2026 is Ripple's annual event in New York City, bringing together financial leaders, fintech founders, developers and researchers to explore the intersection of traditional finance and the onchain economy. For the first time it combines the Swell and Apex conferences into one event across multiple programming tracks, with topics including stablecoins, tokenization, payments, capital markets, DeFi, AI and agentic finance, and policy and regulation.
75 sessions · 141 speakers
Organiser (1)
Co-Organiser (1)
Media Partner (1)
Sponsors (4)
XRPL Commons · Ondo Finance · RedotPay · ZILO
Agenda
- Opening Keynote 27 October 2026 · Level 8
- From Issuance to Utility: The Next Chapter of Tokenization 27 October 2026 · Level 8
- Where Corporate Finance Is Heading in 2027: Rates, Trade, Technology 27 October 2026 · Level 8
- The Boardroom Pitch for Digital Assets in Banking 27 October 2026 · Level 8
- Ripple for Asset Managers 27 October 2026
- From Allocation to Adoption: How Asset Managers are Building Digital Asset Strategies 27 October 2026
- Market Structure & the Convergence of Digital and Traditional Markets 27 October 2026
- Accelerating Stablecoin Adoption 27 October 2026
- How Stablecoins Are Rewiring Institutional Markets 27 October 2026
- Payments Reimagined: Digital Assets, Stablecoins, and the Rise of Agentic Commerce 27 October 2026
- Anticipating Global Shocks: Intelligence, Risks, and Resilience 27 October 2026
- Closing Remarks with Monica Long, President, Ripple 27 October 2026 · Level 8
- A Conversation with Ripple CEO, Brad Garlinghouse 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- A Conversation with Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Always On: Liquidity, Clearing, and the New Price Discovery in Global Markets 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- The Risk Advantage: From Trading Floors to the Future of Finance 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Ripple Product Presentation 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- A Conversation with Terrence Duffy, CEO, CME Group 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Shaping the XRPL Commons Product Roadmap 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- Building the XRPL Foundations: Research That Ships 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- The Race to Tokenize: Bringing Real-World Assets to the Mass Market 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- What Happens When AI Moves Money? 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Proof Over Trust: Formally Verifying the XRP Ledger 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- Building the Institutional DeFi Stack: XRPL's Product Roadmap 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- The Future of Working Capital in a Digital Economy 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- How to Keep Your Agent Under Control 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- Inside Xaman Wallet: The Inner Workings of XRPL's Signing Layer 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- Where Stablecoins Meet Real Life 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- The State of Digital Assets: Insights from BCG 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Otter: A Provably MEV-Resilient Automated Market Maker via Surplus Redistribution 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- Smart Features: A New Paradigm for Building on the XRP Ledger 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- The $3.7M Wake-Up Call 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- zkBallot: Privacy-Preserving E-Voting via Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Shielded Transactions 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- Community is the Heart of XRPL: From Grassroots to Global Impact Session Abstract 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- Rewiring the Back Office: The Onchain Operational Blueprint 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- The Pairing Bias: Pricing and Liquidity Distortions in Graph-Structured Markets 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- The Academic Outlook on Democratizing DeFi 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- Run a Validator on the XRP Ledger 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- The Next Wave of Digital Asset Adoption 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- The Hidden Costs of Crypto Markets: Speed, Darkness, and Who Really Pays 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- Two Clients, One Ledger, Building go-xrpl, a Go-native XRPL Node 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- The Case for Always-On Corporate Treasury 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Preparing XRPL for a Post-Quantum Future 28 October 2026 · Level 6
- David Schwartz and Ayo Akinyele: Building What’s Next for XRPL 28 October 2026 · Level 4
- A Conversation with Coinbase Institutional Co-CEO, Brett Tejpaul 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Day 1 Highlights & Closing 28 October 2026 · Level 2
- Welcome to Day 2 of Swell 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- Washington at a Crossroads: The 2026 Midterms and the Future of Innovation 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- The New Architecture of Global Markets 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- Building the Future of Digital Asset Treasury 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- A Conversation with Tom Farley, CEO, Bullish 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- How Finance Can Solve the Water Crisis: A Conversation with Matt Damon & Gary White of Water.org 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- Geppetto: Demonstrating Cross-account Attacks for AI + Blockchain Integration 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- Banking and Trading with RLUSD in a Multichain World 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- Bringing Digital Assets Into Bank-Grade Production 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- Securing Agentic Finance: Cryptographic Guardrails for Autonomous AI on the XRP Ledger 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- Building Trusted Agentic Finance on XRPL with RLUSD 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- What Crypto Can Do for AI 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- Bringing Institutional Credit on XRPL 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- The Stablecoin Race: Consortiums vs. Individual Issuers 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- Anchoring the AI Stack: A Blockchain Trust Layer for Agents 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- Building the Rules for Digital Finance 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- Advancing DeFi for XRP 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- Auditing Rust Third-Party Dependencies at Scale 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- What Happens to Money? Four Futures for the Age of Digital Assets 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- The First 365 Days: Lessons from the First Spot XRP ETF 29 October 2026 · Level 2
- An AI Agent Walks into a Data Market: x402 Payments on XRPL and the Road to Economic Alignment 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- Creating Network Effects: Supporting XRPL Wins Across the Globe 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- Governing Agents: The Next Great Challenge 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- The Sovereign Levers of Digital Fiat: A Complete On-Chain Census of Regulated Stablecoin Compliance Machinery 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- Building LATAM’s On-Chain Future on the XRPL 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- The State of AI on XRPL: Autonomous Agents, Agentic Payments, and Credit Infrastructure 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- The Net-to-Cash Rail: Rebuilding B2B Payments on Programmable Assets 29 October 2026 · Level 6
- When AI Agents Pay and Sellers Monetize: Building x402 Apps for Agentic Commerce on AWS 29 October 2026 · Level 4
- From Learning to Launch: How We're Bringing the World's Best Developers to the XRPL 29 October 2026 · Level 4