Proof of Talk and Spectrum will again host Proof of Pitch, a startup competition for early-stage founders. Live pitches will be made to leading venture investors, including partners from Arrington Capital, Dragonfly, Haun Ventures, Draper Associates, and CoinFund.
With more than 200 institutional investors attending the conference, the competition is designed to give founders concentrated access to both capital and strategic relationships.
Proof of Talk 2026 begins June 1 with the Golf Prelude, an invitation-only retreat at Racing Club de France La Boulie for VIP Black ticket holders. The day brings together institutional decision-makers for golf, fine dining, and the off-stage conversations that define the event.
On June 3, the Louvre Palace will host StableDay, a dedicated programme focused on stablecoins, payments, tokenization, and digital dollar infrastructure.
Rather than introductory conversations, StableDay is designed for banks, fintechs, protocols, corporates, and regulators actively building and deploying these systems. Sessions will focus on market structure, integration timelines, interoperability, and the evolving role of programmable money in global finance.
Running across both days of the conference, the Bittensor Track will explore the intersection of decentralized AI and blockchain infrastructure. A Canton Track will feature the leading institutions building the future of financial market infrastructures.
Proof of Talk has become known not only for its public agenda, but for the private conversations surrounding it.
The investor dinner brings together fund managers, family offices, and institutional allocators for an off-the-record evening focused entirely on capital allocation, market structure, and strategy.
The speaker & VIP dinner remains one of the defining features of the event. With nearly all speakers attending, the dinner creates a rare setting where senior executives, founders, policymakers, and investors engage directly outside the constraints of stage programming.
At most conferences, dinners are a side event. At Proof of Talk, they are often where the most important conversations happen.
Media contact:
Proof of Talk is held annually at the Louvre Palace in Paris and convenes senior leaders across digital assets, finance, policy, and media. The event operates without pay-to-speak arrangements and emphasizes a journalist-led agenda focused on substantive institutional discussions, market structure, and emerging financial infrastructure.