Tokenization & Digital Assets

Chairperson’s welcome and opening remarks.

• Which coins will win?  
• How will digital currencies shape the financial ecosystem and financial markets?  

• Will we see more major companies adopting BitCoin as a legal tender? 
• How can retail banks keep up?  
• Health and Safety – Is there increased security risk in cutting out intermediaries?  

• Tokenization in the creator economy – licensing, copyrighting and patenting. 
• Moving to other industries – the tokenization of ideas? Or consent?  
• Trusting the blockchain despite the press. 

• Why decentralise? The fall-backs of a centralised data infrastructure system. 
• What does the third-generation internet offer to business? 
• Applying to the scope of industry – who will benefit the most? 

• Increasing financial inclusion globally as a result of stablecoin.  
• International trade and overseas payments made easier. 

• Bitcoin mining and energy use.
• Bitcoin mining and the renewables grid.
• How Bitcoin mining can help combat climate change.

• Goal of TSC’s standardization program and its mission 
• Benefits of standardization 
• TSC roadmap for an interoperable ecosystem 
• Case study of a published standard: Paymail standard

• Britcoin or Shitcoin – Why are some rich countries hesitant to adopt Central Bank Digital Currencies?  
• On-boarding problems – what infrastructural adjustments are required to adopt a CBDC?  
• Wholesale, or retail, or both?   
• Use cases – what can we learn from countries who already have CBDCs? 

• Are countries in with developing economies more primed to take on new financial infrastructures? 
• What are the steps to ensure trust of a Central Bank Digital Currency?  
• How will societies benefits? Do CBDCs offer a partial solution to global inequality? 
• Case Study: El Salvador’s role out of BitCoin – Achievements and Shortfalls 

• In line with current digital assets trends, which exchange functions are likely to become more popular this year? 
• DEX’s – an autonomous utopia or the wild west? 
• Making Crypto Accessible – how essential is platform usability, and should there be more emphasis on education? 

• How document identity verification can increase conversions and improve the customer experience.
• The importance of instant and automated identity verification to deter fraudsters.
• The ways crypto companies can leverage the identity data that Berbix verifies for use in their downstream flows.

• The progress so far – why are regulatory bodies nervous to approach the crypto world? 
• Future potentials of a governed space – how would better regulation enhance capabilities of digital asset companies? 
• Fiscal policy and a growing crypto economy – the pros and cons of taxing crypto-assets. 
• The fragmentation risk.