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For years the main focus of tokenisation has been on private markets and hard to trade or access assets. But now there’s a lot of noise about assets on public markets moving on chain. Is this hype? Or real? Are these public assets moving natively on-chain, or through some kind of wrapper or vehicle? Will the CEXs and DEXs of the digital asset world steal a march here, or will the TradFi incumbents leapfrog them into the digital world? And where is this all going to happen first?
Institutions and corporations typically sit on significant assets that are static in custody and on their balance sheets. Earning yield maybe, but “dumb” apart from that. Tokenization has the potential to unlock that “dumb” value and make these assets “smart” by allowing them to be used and transferred in new and innovative ways. This panel will explore what is happening to make assets smart and how they are being used now and will be in the future.
Much heralded benefits of blockchain and tokenization have always been the allure of 24/7 markets and instantaneous real-time settlement or atomic swaps. But has this really happened yet? And if not, why not? This panel will explore the benefits that are really possible now and in the future, as well as the challenges, like liquidity, regulation, intermediaries, etc, that still exist.
Stablecoins have exploded globally with hundreds now available and more coming all the time. But other tokenized assets offer an interesting alternative - such as MMFs, yield products, tokenized deposits, CBDCs and tokenized treasuries - have emerged now too. And these can offer interesting benefits, like interest. This panel will explore the various contenders and the different use cases each fit, and predict which might be the winner(s) over time.
Private markets have always been at the very heart of the blockchain promise and revolution, but where have they really got to? Where are all the secondary listings that were going to bring liquidity to this space and open up access to all? This panel will explore where the tokenization of private markets has got to, as well as what remains to be changed to open up secondary markets, provide liquidity and offer distribution at scale.
The plethora of different blockchains has always created an interoperability problem, but solutions to this do exist, at different levels of the technology stack. However interoperability in its broadest sense is much more than this, particularly when it comes to how this natively digital world can scale. From different jurisdictional rules and regulations, to the need for interfacing with legacy systems, to navigating a myriad of different standards, to cross-border and cross-corporate barriers - the challenges over and above blockchain interoperability need to be met. This panel will explore the interoperability conundrum and what the path to tokenisation at scale might be.
The pre- and post-trade world have been ripe for disruption and revolution for many years, with lots of inefficiencies, duplication, intermediaries and costs. But blockchain has the potential to sweep all this aside and reengineer the post-trade and back-office space. This panel will explore where we have got to on this journey, what the ‘low hanging fruit’ here is, and what needs to still happen to deliver the blockchain dream in this area.
Now some institutions are getting more involved with cryptocurrencies and even offering access to their clients, what will happen next? Will more regulation make it a more acceptable asset class? Will institutions have crypto investment strategies or will they just dip in to pay gas fees for other tokenisation projects? Are some chains or crypto instruments more acceptable than offers? And what other crypto-related instruments might get on the institutional menu next?
Clear and consistent regulation for cryptocurrencies and digital assets have long been the dream. But regulatory momentum is building now, so is the end in sight? But different regulators do things differently and at different speeds. This panel will explore the current state of crypto and digital asset regulation against a global bank drop - and indentation which jurisdictions look likely to win out.
Crypto and traditional custodians have long been separate beasts, with new incumbents emerging in the crypto space. But regulated digital assets sit somewhere in between and the TradFi custodians are gearing up to offer digital solutions too. Which side might emerge as the kings of custody and how might the evolving landscape end up looking?
DeFi is often seen as the bleeding edge of crypto and a sandbox of innovation and disruption. But the DeFi world is often opaque at best and is a difficult unregulated space currently for institutions to navigate. This panel will explore some of the most exciting innovations in DeFi and how these might transition into the traditional institutional space.
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