Trump, Saylor, Yakovenko to headline Consensus Miami 2026

CoinDesk will host Consensus Miami in May 2026 in Miami, with organizers estimating about 20,000 attendees from more than 100 countries and representatives from over 200 Fortune 500 companies. Headliners announced for the conference include Eric Trump, co‑founder and chief strategy officer of American Bitcoin; Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman; and Anatoly Yakovenko, co‑founder of Solana.

The three‑day event will mark the U.S. return of Solana Accelerate, which organizers expect to gather more than 3,000 builders, executives and policymakers. CoinDesk listed a program of more than 500 speakers across six stages and four summits, including the Institutional Summit, Capital Markets Summit and Regulation & Policy Summit. The schedule features more than 200 sessions covering stablecoins, tokenization and prediction markets.

Other speakers named include investor Kevin O’Leary; Brad Garlinghouse, chief executive officer of Ripple; Amy Oldenburg, head of digital asset strategy at Morgan Stanley; May Zabaneh, vice president and general manager of crypto at PayPal; and Michael Selig, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Executives from traditional finance and technology firms are also scheduled to participate in panels and discussions.

CoinDesk University will offer hands‑on workshops led by companies such as Circle and MoonPay on topics including stablecoins and the use of agents in market activity. The event will also host a multichain hackathon, a Pitchfest startup competition, a live trading contest and an onsite CoinDesk Live broadcast studio for media coverage.

Organizers named major sponsors including Solana, Grayscale, OKX, Anchorage Digital and GoMining. Partner organizations listed by CoinDesk include Google, Circle, Kinexys by JPMorgan, KPMG, PwC, S&P Global, DTCC, Mastercard, PayPal, Fidelity and Swift.

Consensus Miami is scheduled to overlap with the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix and a PGA Tour signature event. CoinDesk has scheduled official evening events at local venues, including gatherings at the Sagamore pool deck, the nightclub E11even, the steakhouse Papi Steak and the National Hotel pool deck.

Michael Lau, chairman of Consensus, described the U.S. return as reflecting significant market change and said the conference will bring together institutions, founders and governments working on digital asset and blockchain infrastructure.

Consensus is CoinDesk’s flagship conference and has run annually since 2013. CoinDesk operates as part of Bullish Group and provides media, events and market data for the digital asset industry.