LendIt is returning to the west coast next year for LendIt USA 2018; it will take place on April 9-11 at the Moscone Center; this year we are focusing on three core areas: lending, digital banking and blockchain; new for 2018 is the BlockFin Summit which will take place in a dedicated space within LendIt; it will cover a wide variety of topics including: enterprise blockchain using digital ledger technology, global finance built on AI and blockchain, tokenized VC and investment banking, blockchain infrastructure for markets, trading, and back office, decentralized banking and insurance, and crypto-economics; early bird pricing ends this Friday, November 3.