By Maria Esteves

The 2018 Consensus New York (4th Annual Blockchain Technology Summit) presented by CoinDesk was held at the Hilton Midtown, May 14-16, 2018. The Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) and Cryptocurrency annual global conference included the launch of the first decentralized open source Bitcoin Blockchain Smart Contract platform by RSK, Security Token Standard 2.0 by Polymath, hardware wallet Ledger Blue by Ledger, workshops, panel discussions, exhibitors show, special presentations and network receptions.

Over 8,000 attendees and about 500 exhibitors participated at this year’s extraordinary conference. Financial technology industry leaders, healthcare professionals and government officials from around the world were in attendance.

2018 Consensus New York: (L-R) panelists Charlie Lee, founder, Litecoin
Foundation; Dr. Jutta Steiner, co-founder, Parity Technologies; and David
Schwartz, chief cryptographer, Ripple; The Race Towards Interoperability
panel session, May 14, 2018.

2018 Consensus New York: (L-R) moderator Amber Baldet, CoinDesk, JPMorgan
blockchain strategy chief, with speakers, Joseph Lubin, founder, ConsenSys,
and Jimmy Song, venture partner, Blockchain Capital, The Most Secure and
Reliable Commercial Networks in the World panel session, May 14, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: The Internet of Things team at Streamr.com,
May 16, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: (L-R) team members Chin Song, Simon Downey,
Rok Cernec, and Carlye Wicklund, ARK.io, May 14, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: guest speaker
James Bullard, CEO, Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis, Fireside Chat, opening
presentation, May 14, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: speaker
Trevor Koverko, CEO, Polymath,
POLYMATH 2.0 IS LIVE, special 
presentation, May 16, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: Megan, director of customer support,
Shapeshift.io, May 14, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: Guilherme Rebane,
head of sales/trading/Foxbit invest, Foxbit.com,
May 14, 2018.

2018 Consensus New York: Mia Molnar, marketing/PR,
Genesis-mining.com, May 14, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: Jon Kindel, integration engineer,
DASH cryptocurrency, May 16, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: Mac Cordingley, support
manager, ZenCash cryptocurrency, May 16, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: Angela Vastey, business development
coordinator, Goodwin, May 16, 2018.  

2018 Consensus New York: Zac Cheah of Pundix.com introduced
the crypto point-of-sale machine, May 16, 2018.