With large volumes of private assets now on-chain, this panel explores when secondary trading at scale becomes a reality, the role institutional brokers will play and the broader benefits tokenisation unlocks for private markets.
24/7 trading and atomic settlement are among blockchain’s most-cited promises for TradFi – but are they actually needed or wanted? This panel examines who benefits, which asset classes are best suited, and whether these features are genuinely transformative or largely theoretical.
The tokenised yield landscape is expanding rapidly – but not all products are suited to institutional investors. This panel assesses the options across money-market funds, treasuries and yield-bearing stablecoins, examining regulatory status, structural considerations and what’s coming next.
Blockchain’s potential in fund services extends beyond asset tokenisation to re-architecting fund administration itself, from NAV calculation and transfer agency to distributions and investor onboarding. This panel examines the technical, regulatory and commercial realities of moving from “manual/fragmented/opaque” to natively on-chain fund operations.
Public market assets moving on-chain are generating increasing attention, but is this real or hype? This panel explores whether assets are moving natively or via wrappers, whether CEXs and DEXs or TradFi incumbents will lead, and which markets will move first.
Private credit is one of the fastest-growing asset classes, but access has remained largely institutional. Tokenisation promises fractional exposure, improved liquidity and greater transparency, but does on-chain distribution genuinely democratise this high-yield asset, or introduce new risks? This panel examines the investment case and structural challenges.
The tokenisation debate has largely focused on bringing TradFi assets on-chain, but the greater opportunity may lie in the reverse: embedding DeFi’s infrastructure, composability and efficiency into traditional workflows. This panel asks whether that shift is the missing piece for institutional scale, and how the cultural, regulatory and technical gaps are being bridged.
Post-trade processes such as clearing, settlement, custody and reconciliation remain among the most costly and complex layers of market infrastructure. With CSDs and clearing houses now piloting DLT, atomic settlement and real-time position transparency are moving from theory to practice. This panel asks whether post-trade is where institutional blockchain adoption finds its most enduring use case.
Institutions and corporations hold significant assets that sit static on balance sheets — earning some yield, but otherwise inert or “dumb”. Tokenisation can make these assets “smart”, enabling new forms of use, transfer and value creation. This panel explores what’s happening now and where the opportunity leads.
With US legislation advancing, MiCA now live in the EU and the FCA’s framework taking shape, 2026 is a pivotal year for digital asset regulation. This panel cuts through the policy to assess what is actually working on the ground, if these frameworks are proving navigable or burdensome, and which jurisdiction is striking the right balance between innovation and protection.
As traditional custodians enter the space and competition intensifies, fee compression in digital asset custody is accelerating. But with security and regulatory compliance non-negotiable, can a race to zero truly play out, and if so, where does value migrate? This panel examines provider differentiation strategies and what fee trajectory means for market structure.
As markets become more digital and programmable, AI is reshaping trading, liquidity and compliance, while tokenisation creates the infrastructure for more automated financial processes. This panel examines which parts of the market may become autonomous first, where human oversight remains essential, and the implications for efficiency, regulation and stability.
Payment firms are emerging as a critical, but often overlooked infrastructure layer in the digital asset ecosystem, from on- and off-ramps to stablecoin settlement and cross-border transfers. This panel explores whether they hold the key to mainstream adoption and what the convergence of payments and digital assets means for the broader financial landscape.
Stablecoins have evolved from a trading utility into a foundational layer of the digital asset economy, with regulatory frameworks now crystallising across the US, EU and UK. As the types and flavours of stablecoins evolve, and as they become embedded in payments and on-chain commerce, this panel asks whether if you can earn, spend and settle in stablecoins you ever actually need to off-ramp back to fiat.
Regulatory clarity across the UK, EU and US is removing the barriers that kept institutions on the crypto sidelines. Now, as a result, new potential revenue streams are opening up, from offering direct access to crypto products, to custody and brokerage, to staking, lending and yield products. This panel explores which opportunities are most compelling for institutions and how quickly they can move to capture them.
