Cryptocurrencies
Crypto Crowd’s Secret Gala Convenes Outside Milken’s Gates
- Medici Network hosts exclusive conference nearby famous confab
- Galaxy’s Novogratz, Jump’s Kariya and CFTC chairman attended
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No name tags and by invitation only, an exclusive cryptocurrency crowd gathered behind closed doors at the Waldorf Astoria’s Jean-Georges restaurant in Beverly Hills.
It was Medici LA 22, an event set up to connect crypto entrepreneurs and institutional investors amid the ballooning popularity of digital assets. The who’s who of crypto attended, with Mike Novogratz, chief executive officer of Galaxy Digital, Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana and Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, among the 130 or so at the two-day meeting. The goal was to generate “actionable investment ideas” in the digital asset world, according to a copy of the conference’s program seen by Bloomberg News.