Digital Assets & Crypto – LIVE

Crypto & digital asset investment track welcome & opening remarks

• A look at how central banks are embracing digital currencies

• How does an economic downturn affect the value of digital assets?
• Spreading the risk in an institutional investment portfolio

• How tokenisation is delivering blockchain’s potential for environmental sustainability.
• Exploring amazing use case where blockchain is already helping streamline supply chain, distribute energy, stop deforestation.
• How you can tokenise to allow for easy redistribution of resources; Lessons learned from the Coronavirus.

• Applying the legal system to defend financial inclusion in the face of increasing financial regulation.
• Privacy, European values, and regulation, what can we do?
• Why peer-to-peer is the answer.

• What can be tokenised, how can it be tokenised, and what are the benefits?
• Investigating how regulation has and will change the perception of tokens.
• The token revolution realised; A look at real life use cases where tokenisation has been successfully used.
• Exploring industry trends and what to look out for over the next year.

• Fiat stablecoin; The project everyone has been working on behind the scenes.
• Tokenisation of fiat? Why?
• Looking at European central banks’ movements towards a new financial marketplace.
• What would this mean for mainstream fiat?

• Parliament taking their time; Should we be self-regulating as a community?
• Why regulation can only be a positive thing for the industry.
• Could the economic downturn speed things up again?

• Looking at the securitization of assets.
• Enabling revenue streams.
• Why is it helpful to create digital twins?

On-demand Presentation

• Current perceptions of blockchain and bitcoin; Tainting money laundering stories
• Success stories of banks embracing change
• Will regulating the space induce more banks to reconsider?
• Looking forward to 2021…what to expect?

• Understanding why mining is so important.
• Examples of mining pools – who holds the power and what is the backup?
• How mining is evolving, from server farms to the palm of your hand.
• Myth-busting mining: The facts that you probably don’t know.

• A look at how digital assets are becoming more and more mainstream – is crypto getting trendy again?
• Why the days of the Wild West are over?
• Why the industry needs to grow up and offer users products they understand as well as regulators and partners they are willing to work with.
• Why people will never fully understand Bitcoin but understand financial freedom.

• A look at the state of the crypto market.
• We look at enterprise-grade software-only key management.
• Why we need a safe key protection platform to go mainstream.
• Keeping your private keys safe.

• What is DeFi? Understanding the decentralised finance landscape.
• Experts from banking will explore the new decentralised banking format and how it can work alongside traditional banking.
• Exploring regulation and security around tradeable assets and why new security is needed.
• How wide could this go and when?

A quick round-up of the take-aways from the digital assets & crypto track.