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Digital assets news and commentary
Industry
BitGet partners with B2C2
12 March 2026 UK and Seychelles
Reporter: Matthew Challis
The partnership aims to build upon BitGet’s initiative to add institutional-grade infrastructure and trading efficiency across its platform
Technology
sFOX and EDX Markets join forces
12 March 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis
According to the firms, the incorporation of EDX’s liquidity into sFOX will be beneficial to clients, aiming to improve price discovery, deepen liquidity, and strengthen execution performance
People moves
Binance.US appoints Gregory as CEO
12 March 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis
With over a decade’s worth of experience in the digital assets industry, Steve Gregory will take over from interim CEO Norman Reed, following four years as CEO of Currency.com
Regulation
Komainu collaborates with P2P.org
11 March 2026 US
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft
Through this partnership, Komainu clients can stake assets directly from regulated custody wallets, ensuring custodial integrity and onchain transparency
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Tokenisation alone is not enough
Rico van der Veen, co-founder and CEO at SemiLiquid Labs, considers that while tokenisation has improved asset mobility and transparency, the real constraint on institutional scale lies in outdated credit rails
Scaling stablecoins around the world
Nilmini Rubin, chief policy officer at Hedera, explores how stablecoins are emerging as a core component of global digital money, and why regulatory fragmentation risks undermining their cross-border potential
Project Agorá
Led by the BIS, Project Agorá is exploring whether tokenised money and a unified ledger model can address the long-standing inefficiencies of wholesale cross-border payments
Prediction Markets’ Institutional Pivot
Rapid growth across event-based platforms is drawing attention from established exchanges and professional participants. Matt Barrett, CEO at Adaptive, looks at how long-term credibility depends on hard-won lessons from earlier digital market cycles
From concept to core infrastructure
Experts from Broadridge examine how tokenisation is moving from pilot programmes to production-grade infrastructure, and what institutions must get right to make it work at scale
From proof of concept to production scale
Magnus Haglind, senior vice president and head of Capital Markets Technology at Nasdaq, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss where traditional and emerging market models intersect, why liquidity and collateral remain the hard problems, and how extended trading hours are reshaping market structure
Collateral then, blockchain now
Steven Griffiths, founder of Absolute Collateral, considers how blockchain is following the same path collateral once did — moving steadily upstream as markets rethink where critical trading decisions should sit
Growing expectations
Olivier Carré, technology and transformation leader at PwC Luxembourg, looks at the hype surrounding tokenisation, and asks, could it really unlock US$135 billion in cost savings for asset managers?
Where Digital Finance
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Bitget
Gracy Chen
Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss why institutional focus has shifted from experimentation to execution, what is holding back large-scale adoption, and how liquidity, custody, and regulatory clarity will shape digital market infrastructure
TRAction Fintech
Quinn Perrott
Quinn Perrott, co-CEO at TRAction Fintech, examines how ASIC’s October 2024 Reporting Rules Rewrite clarifies the treatment of cryptocurrency CFDs and other OTC derivatives, including where they sit within Australia’s trade-reporting asset class framework
SWIAT
Ivica Aračić
Ivica Aračić, chief technology officer at SWIAT, explains how regulatory‑compliant digital market infrastructure is driving institutional confidence in tokenised assets, and why shared, neutral DLT platforms are essential for scaling onchain issuance, settlement, and collateral across global capital markets
Zumo
Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo, speaks to Karl Loomes about the FCA’s crypto authorisation gateway, what it signals for the UK’s digital assets strategy, and how firms should prepare for the full regulatory regime
Crystal aOS
Joni Pirovich
Joni Pirovich, founder and CEO of Crystal aOS, sits down with The Digital Assets Edge to discuss why compliance remains the biggest barrier to institutional crypto adoption, and how agentic AI could turn regulatory burden into scalable infrastructure
Euroclear
Miguel Ferreira and Marije Verhelst
Securities financing is going through a seismic transformation, sparked by fast-moving macro events, ever-shifting regulations, and rapid digitalisation. Miguel Ferreira and Marije Verhelst discuss how Euroclear’s Collateral Highway is adapting to the changing dynamics
LMAX Group
Luke Dorney
Luke Dorney, head of Custody at LMAX Group, sits down with The Digital Asset Edge to look at institutional crypto, collateral, and client demands in this evolving market
Deutsche Bank
Jie Yi (Jaelynn) Lee
Jie Yi (Jaelynn) Lee, digital product owner, Securities Services, at Deutsche Bank, shares her journey into the financial services industry, reflecting on the power of curiosity, the value of mentorship, and her vision for a future shaped by tokenisation, digital innovation, and purposeful impact
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