CVC26 WORKSHOP: How Financial Infrastructure Is Being Rebuilt
Workshop Description
Financial infrastructure is not being upgraded — it is being rebuilt. This session maps where tokenization, interoperability, and on-chain governance are creating real operational value today, and what it takes to move from isolated pilots to scalable, standards-based digital finance.
What You'll Learn
How the conversation around digital financial infrastructure has shifted from pilots to standards
Where tokenization creates real operational value across market structure and post-trade today
Why governance and verifiable identity are now the defining bottlenecks for scalable digital finance
What the transition from isolated experiments to interoperable, standardized systems looks like in practice
Speaker Bio
Sandro Knöpfel is Global Business Development Lead at the Cardano Foundation, driving strategic partnerships and business development across the blockchain domain. With over two decades in capital markets, he focuses on pioneering Web2 to Web3 transitions across industries and building the institutional alliances that digital financial infrastructure requires.
Please note: Access to this workshop requires a valid Crypto Valley Conference 2026 pass.