Ryan Kirkley

Keynote Speaker | Co-founder & CEO | Global Settlement Network

Ryan Kirkley is the CEO of Global Settlement (GSX), an institutional settlement network for tokenized assets, stablecoins, and cross-border payments.

His work sits at the intersection of regulatory reform, real-time settlement, and the growing convergence of stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and traditional payment rails.

Before GSX, Ryan founded Cryptan Labs, a Miami-based venture studio and accelerator for AI and blockchain startups. He is also a venture partner and investor in quantum software, prediction markets, and blockchain projects through roles at Outliers Fund, Singularity VC, and Doriath Capital. Over the course of his career, Ryan has built and exited multiple ventures spanning martech, blockchain, apparel, and machine learning.

Ryan’s expertise focuses on central bank economics, CBDC design, tokenized deposits, and cross-border interoperability, drawing on models such as Swift’s CBDC experiments. He is also a leading advocate for quantum-resilient blockchain stacks, guiding institutions through migrations to the new NIST post-quantum cryptography standards to secure long-lived assets.

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