Quackenbush has spent her career arriving early to categories, conversations, and ideas that most people don’t take seriously until they already matter. AI and blockchain are the latest example. Community, she’ll argue, is what ties them together.

She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hive3, a company built on a deceptively simple premise: communities that create value should own it. Hive3 is an AI-powered, blockchain-native coordination infrastructure that turns digital communities into durable economies, making participation measurable, reputation persistent, and value portable across every platform a community already calls home. In practice, it is what happens when AI and blockchain stop being separate conversations and start working in service of the people they were always meant to empower.

Before Hive3, Stacy co-founded Wisdome LA, the first fully immersive art and entertainment complex in the United States, a venue now widely recognized as a cultural and architectural precursor to the Las Vegas Sphere. She co-founded VisionRave, building music-driven virtual worlds with on-chain streaming, tokenized ticketing, and NFT souvenirs alongside artists like Claptone, Sasha, and John Digweed, at a time when the category had no name. She was recruited to serve as CEO of venture-backed Third Academy, and also led Web3 strategy at Zigazoo, one of the fastest-growing family platforms in the world, where she worked to make education and emerging technology meaningful to mainstream audiences.

The throughline across all of it is translation. Stacy has a rare ability to move between the deeply technical and the deeply human, to take what is complex, unfamiliar, or ahead of its time, and make it something people can understand, trust, and use. It is the quality that defines how she leads, how she builds, and how she holds a stage.

That same quality has made her a sought-after voice on the global stage. She has spoken at ETHCC in Paris, ETH Connect in Milan, EDCON in Tokyo, Google Headquarters in Brussels, Consensus in Austin, and the Immerse Global Summit. She has served twice as MC for NFT.NYC, leading conversations on digital identity, decentralized design, women in Web3, and the convergence of AI and blockchain. She has been recognized twice among the Top 100 Women in Web3 and AI by Unstoppable Women of Web3, shortlisted as Founder of the Year by Wirex, and Hive3 was named one of the Top 5 Female-Founded Tech Companies in Europe.

She is guided by a conviction that animates every conversation she steps into: the next era of the internet must be built around people, not platforms, and the convergence of AI, blockchain, and community is not three separate trends, but a single architecture for what comes next. Technology, at its best, should expand access rather than restrict it. Through Hive3 and everything that came before it, she has spent years proving that technical ambition and human purpose are not in tension. They are, in fact, the only combination that lasts.