Web3
Innovation Lab

1.14.25 -- 1.16.25

Join us for an immersive day of FinTech Programming! 

The Web3 Innovation Lab offers technology-focused experiences and is designed to connect key figures in the ecosystem to maximize the chance of high-impact collisions. Through the Lab, members accelerate the growth of their solutions and sharpen their competitive edge with strategies and partnerships discovered at 1871. Focus areas for the 2025 program will include: Digital Assets, Market Infrastructure, and Web3-Powered AI.

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Web3 Innovation Summit

4.17.24 | Public | Free | Hybrid

An immersive day of Web3 programming! Get ready for a full day of Web3 programming & networking! Agenda for the day includes: keynotes, pitch showcases, networking breakfast & lunch, expert panels, startup expos, and happy hour.

Built with industry experts

Entrepreneur-In-Residence

Arry Yu is a 22+ year emerging technology industry veteran, serial founder and strategic operator with expertise in scaling business from “zero to one” with a consistent track record building high-performing teams. Yu also works in venture capital as she serves as the Managing Director of Yellow Umbrella Ventures and Venture Partner with Startup Haven Fund. She also regularly serves as an educator, as Adjunct Professor and instructor for various academic institutions like the Saudi Digital Academy, Coding Dojo, Portland State University and the University of Washington Milgard School of Business. 

Web3 Innovation Lab Focus Areas

Digital Assets

Focus on supporting startups that develop and innovate around digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, tokenized real-world assets, and other unique digital ownership models. 

Tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWAs)

Enables the creation, issuance, and management of tokenized assets, including securities and NFTs, allowing real-world assets to be represented on-chain. Examples include Polymath and Securitize.

Decentralized Exchanges and DeFi

Facilitates decentralized lending, borrowing, staking, and yield farming, allowing for peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries. Notable platforms include Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO.

Institutional Adoption, Liquidity and Market Infrastructure

Facilitates the investment of traditional financial institutions, corporations, and other large organizations in Web3 technologies and assets while ensures adherence to regulatory requirements 

Market Infrastructure

Focus on startups that work on underlying systems, technologies, and services that enable the efficient, secure, and scalable operation of decentralized markets and financial systems

Custody & Wallets

Provides secure storage of digital assets to protect against theft, loss, and cyberattacks. Includes both custodial (institutional-grade services like Anchorage and BitGo) and non-custodial solutions (hardware and software wallets).

Payments & Stablecoins

Manages post-trade processes to finalize and record asset transfers, ensuring counterparty obligations are met. This includes real-time or T+0 settlement models used in blockchain-based settlements, with firms like Paxos leading the space.

Interoperability and Bridging

Provides connectivity across multiple blockchains to facilitate cross-chain transactions and interoperability between digital assets. 

Web3-Powered AI

Focus on the startups building at the intersection of of decentralized web technologies and artificial intelligence to create more intelligent, efficient, and user-centric digital platforms.

Coordination Layers 

A set of technologies and protocols designed to facilitate seamless interaction, integration, and collaboration among various components or agents.

Agents

Artificial intelligence systems that operate autonomously, making decisions, performing tasks, and interacting with their environment without continuous human oversight

Physical Infrastructure

Focuses on areas such as high energy demands, cooling and resources requirements, smart grid management and optimizations and sustainabiity.

Speaker lineup

Charles Hoskinson
Founder & CEO @ IOHK

Arry Yu
Co-Founder & Executive Director @ US Blockchain Coalition

Katia Kobylinski
Head of Partnerships @ ETHChicago

Gabby Kusz
Senior Fellow @ AI 2030

Nelson Rosario
Founder and Partner @ Rosario Tech Law

Nathan Love
Sr. Business Development Manager – Wholesale Partnerships & Innovation @ T-Mobile

Execution partners

The Advanced Technology Cluster is funded through Washington State’s Innovation Cluster Accelerator Program, and the focus of the group is to convene stakeholders from industry, government, academia, and the investment community to work together towards ensuring the Pacific Northwest and the broader United States is a leader in emerging technologies.

FinTech4Good is a global network focused on emerging technologies. We collaborate with startups, industrial leaders, NPOs, and investors to develop solutions for a better world. Our team harnesses technologies like blockchain, AI, Metaverse, and Cloud Computing to build startups, provide consulting services, and offer professional development programs for achieving the SDGs and revolutionizing finance.

Join the lab

The experience is open to other players within the Web3 community that offer specialized value to each other, while also getting their unique interests met.

Growth stage startups

For a Web3 company with a demonstrated
product market fit &  poised to grow.

Exclusive benefits
  • Showcase their product to dozens of potential corporations and investors
  • Level up their thought leadership
  • Learn from the foremost Web3 experts in the U.S.
  • Connect with peers in Web3
  • Connect with advisors and mentors in Web3

Application close 1.05 for the 2024 lab

Late stage lab partner

For a Web3 company interested in becoming an industry expert and influencing major industry outcomes.

Exclusive benefits
  • Connect to potential customers, partners and investors
  • Be publicly showcased as thought leaders
  • Network with industry leaders – employee engagement opportunity
  • Access corporations who are interested in exploring Web3 Innovation
  • Mentor early-stage startups
  • Amplify your brand at the Web3 Innovation Summit

Book a discovery call by 1.05

Corporate
lab partners

For corporates looking to innovate and accelerate in web3 and decentralized tech.

Exclusive benefits
  • Make 1:1 connections with startups
  • Be publicly showcased as thought leaders through PR, co-hosted events, and more
  • Participate in/co-host curated networking and exclusive events
  • Network with industry leaders – employee engagement opportunity
  • Connect with tech talent interested in Web3
  • Sit on the 1871 Web3 Innovation Advisory Council

Book a discovery call by 1.05

Web3 Innovation Lab timeline

Programming

Week 1

1.22.24 - 1.26.24 [Virtual]

Week 2

2.12.24 - 2.16.24 [In-person]

Week 3

3.18.24 - 3.22.24 [Virtual]

Week 4

4.15.24 - 4.19.24 [In-person]

Web3 Innovation Summit

Capstone event w/ public showcase

April 17th 2024

Lab partners

Our Innovation Labs Connects
Founders
Corporates
Investors
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April 14-18, 2025

“Web3 is kind of looking at the history of where we’ve come along the digital evolution”

EIR Arry Yu, Co-founder & Executive Director of US Blockchain Coalition, discusses the Web3 Innovation Lab.

Web3 ecosystem