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Bitcoin at the intersection of monetary policy and market cycles

James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, assesses why Bitcoin has underperformed traditional safe havens following the Federal Reserve’s policy shift, considering how cyclical flows, muted institutional demand, and regulatory uncertainty are weighing on near-term performance

From experiment to infrastructure

Tahlia Kraefft examines how as the United Kingdom’s approach to cryptocurrency regulation shifts from minimal oversight to a comprehensive financial services framework regime, is the regulation a brake on innovation or structure for scale?

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while tokenisation has improved asset mobility and transparency, the real constraint on institutional scale lies in outdated credit rails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?

What's the risk?

Karl Loomes, group editor of The Digital Assets Edge, examines how risk is distributed across the stablecoin stack — from issuers and banks to liquidity providers and users — and why treating stablecoins as ‘digital cash’ can obscure where exposure really sits

Theatre is over

Glenn Handley, founder and CEO of SecFin Solutions, looks at why T+1 settlement and structural balance sheet pressures leave tokenisation not as an efficiency play, but as a necessity for systemic survival

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