Crypto & Digital Assets – Virtual

Crypto & digital asset investment track welcome & opening remarks

• Why Libra wasn’t such a bad idea; Who can take this concept forward from a position of trust? 
• Looking at how blockchain is improving the end-to-end payments journey for customers. 
• How tokenisation and innovation is changing investment as we know it. 

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

• Looking at the new payment systems that allow for true decentralisation. 
• Step by step guide to crypto security best practice. 
• Looking at how to get away from lengthy encryption keys? 

• 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. 
• 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. 
• Looking at European central banks’ movements towards a new financial marketplace. 
• What would this mean for mainstream fiat? 

• Exploring how blockchain can help companies to reduce risks of cooperative competition by predefining and enforcing the respective ecosystem rules of engagement on-chain.  
• Discussing some of the emerging approaches using KYC (know your customer) processes and ecosystems as an example. 

• Demonstration of digital assets being traded as securities 
• Looking into the new way that assets are exchanging hands. 
• An investigation into how regulation is rapidly changing this space. 

• 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 that you probably don’t know. 

• A look at how digital assets are becoming more and more mainstream. 
• 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. 

• 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?