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Breakfast Briefing: What’s at Stake – the future for institutional crypto assets?
November 19, 8:30 am - 11:00 am
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The institutional market for crypto assets has taken huge strides in 2024. Staking has emerged as a popular yield-generation tool for investors with wider availability of staking-as-a-service, pooled staking and the growth of liquid re-staking. As awareness of the benefits of different types of staking has grown, more institutional investors are now seeking to explore its possibilities.
This year several new Proof of Stake blockchains are also launching, including chains that facilitate restaking. Restaking enables staked cryptocurrency from one network to be used as security on other protocols, in exchange for protocol fees and rewards. In future, staking will increasingly become integrated with decentralised finance (DeFi) applications, allowing for more complex financial products and services.
Likewise in 2024, the launch of multiple spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) in the US and other cryptocurrency ETFs and ETPs in Europe has attracted enormous interest in the industry from financial institutions and professional investors. Crypto has arguably become more mainstream than ever before, as TradFi and DeFi continue to converge. Now staked ETH ETFs are also on the cards adding another attractive element to the ETF marketplace.
In this breakfast briefing, our speakers explore the rise of staking, re-staking and its impact on cryptocurrency ETPs. They ask what’s at stake and what’s next for investors in crypto?
Host
Laura Clatworthy, Partner, Rosenblatt
Moderator
Jonny Fry, Group Head of Digital Assets Strategy, ClearBank
Speakers
Eva Lawrence, Head of EMEA, Figment
Helen Disney, Founder, Unblocked
Peter Lane, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Jacobi Asset Management
Elise Soucie Watts, Executive Director, Global Digital Finance