Fixed Income: The Convergence of Crypto & Fiat Financial Markets
With Institutional Rates Trading, Yield Curves, and Complex RWA Financing now possible, Crypto markets take a giant leap forward in their head-to-head battle with Traditional Finance. Is Fixed Income the catalyst we've all been waiting for?
Hear from the industry’s leading builders and market makers Galaxy, Wintermute, GSR, and Infinity Exchange on the technology, the path forward, and the opportunities ahead, as they discuss "The Convergence of Crypto and Fiat Financial Markets."
About the hosts
Since 2018, Galaxy is building a holistic financial platform spanning three complementary operating businesses: Global Markets, Asset Management, and Digital Infrastructure Solutions. Our offerings include, amongst others, trading, lending, strategic advisory services, institutional-grade investment solutions, proprietary bitcoin mining and hosting services, network validator services, and the development of enterprise custodial technology.
Infinity Exchange is a Lending and Borrowing platform offering both a high-fidelity rates trading experience and RWA financing. Accessible through smart contract, web, and API, Infinity builds enterprise-grade financial markets infrastructure for digital assets.
GSR
GSR has ten years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR's trading technology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs.
Wintermute is a hyper-growth algorithmic trading firm and one of the largest players in the global digital asset markets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across most cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto.
BCW Group is an enterprise solutions firm & venture studio dedicated to building Web3 infrastructure & applications that connect and interact with the on-demand digital universe.
Fireblocks is an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain. Fireblocks enables exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks, and hedge funds to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure, with over 130 million wallets created to date. Fireblocks serves thousands of financial institutions, has secured the transfer of over US$4 trillion in digital assets, and has a unique insurance policy that covers assets in storage and transit.
In September 2023, Fireblocks announced its acquisition of smart contract development firm BlockFold to boost its tokenisation capabilities and better serve tier-1 banks and financial institutions, as well as introduced its non-custodial wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) offering for brands, corporates, fintechs and web3 businesses. This solution enables businesses to provide their end users with complete control of their wallet and private key, ensuring end users are never exposed to the businesses’ or Fireblocks’ operational risks.
Agenda
16:00 - 16:30
Check-in
16:30 - 16:45
Keynote: Institutional Fixed Income Now a Reality
Kevin Lepsoe, CEO & Founder, Infinity Exchange
16:45 - 16:50
Intro: Custody with Fireblocks
Amy Zhang, Vice President, Fireblocks
16:50 - 17:20
Panel: "Crypto Fixed Income and Path to Convergence"
Intro & Moderation:
Dwight van Diem, Managing Partner, BCW
Panelists:
CJ Fong, Managing Director, GSR
Moshe Shen, BD & Partnership Director, Wintermute
Kevin Lepsoe, CEO & Founder, Infinity Exchange
John Cahill, COO Asia, Galaxy Digital
17:20 - 18:00
Networking