BVNK took a private New York floor for an afternoon of stablecoin panels and a Fireblocks fireside. We built the stage, lit it, mixed it, shot it on three cameras behind a live switch, and cut the four reels on this page.
By the numbers
- 3
- Cameras, switched live
- 4
- Highlight reels delivered
- 10
- Speakers on stage
- 2
- Expert panels
- 16 ft
- Stage front
- 8
- Live mic channels
- 5
- Tech crew (TD + 4)
- 6
- Leko spotlights
BVNK's own room
Currency NYC was BVNK's own room, which changes the job. On a show floor you are one booth competing with three hundred others. Take a private floor in Manhattan for an afternoon and there is nothing else for the audience to look at, so every part of it has to hold on its own.
The program was tight: a welcome, two panels, a closing fireside, all of it in front of the people actually building the stablecoin market. We built the stage it happened on, lit it, mixed it, and put three cameras on it behind a live switch. The reel above is the whole afternoon brought down to its highlights.
Building the room
A sixteen-foot stage fronting a beMatrix frame, dressed with a printed backdrop and a backlit light box, with two custom gobos throwing the event mark across the room. Uplights and Lekos gave the stage its shape off a single console.
The video package fed a switcher and a recorder at the same time, so the program could be cut live and still leave clean footage behind. That second part is the one clients forget to ask for and then need three weeks later.
Five of us worked it: a technical director plus audio, camera, lighting and an assist, in the day before to build and back the next morning for the show. A countdown clock kept the panels honest.
Session one: regulation and what comes next
BVNK's US managing director, Ben Reynolds, opened the afternoon. Then the first panel took on the question the room was working under: what evolving regulation means for the future of digital assets. Paris Cribben of Silverbank, BVNK's Marta Lia Requeijo, and Dana Syracuse of Paul Hastings worked it through, with PwC's Christopher Scarpati moderating.
Four mics live, three cameras, one clean cut. This is the reel we built from it.
Session two: stablecoins, put to work
The second panel moved from the rules to the use: the real utility of stablecoins in payments. Walter Hessert of Paxos, Nicola White of B2C2, and BVNK co-founder Chris Harmse took it on, with CoinDesk's Foster Wright moderating.
Session three: a fireside to close
Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov sat down with Ben Reynolds to close the program, and then the room moved out to the terraces for the evening reception. We caught the fireside the way we caught the rest of the day, and it became the last of the three session reels.
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