2026 Stablecoin Security Playbook: Extending the Three Lines of Defense to Onchain Finance
For decades, financial institutions have relied on the Three Lines of Defense; business ownership, risk oversight, and independent audit. That model was built for systems where transactions move through intermediaries, controls operate in batches, and governance changes slowly.
Stablecoins change that paradigm.
2026 is the year when stablecoins stop being crypto and become financial plumbing. When code executes instantly, governance proposals can alter supply, and value moves across chains in seconds, traditional lines of defense are no longer sufficient on their own. Controls must operate closer to execution. Oversight must be continuous. Governance must account for programmable risk.
This webinar brings together leading experts from Reserve, Reown, Wave Digital Assets, and Hypernative to examine how stablecoin systems operate at institutional scale, each from a distinct vantage point across the stack.
The discussion will explore:
Protocol & Infrastructure Integrity: How institutions move beyond static audits to continuous oversight of smart contracts, mint and burn logic, oracle dependencies, and peg stability as programmable supply becomes systemic.
Transaction & Distribution Controls: How wallet connectivity and transaction presentation affect blind-signing and last-mile risk
Institutional Governance & Treasury Oversight: How asset managers and issuers design segregation of duties, multisig approval workflows, and safeguards against admin key compromise and malicious governance actions.
Ecosystem & Contagion Risk Management: How institutions monitor cross-chain bridges, liquidity pools, sanctions exposure, and third-party dependencies to prevent external risk from cascading into core operations.
Rather than focusing on products or market commentary, this session is structured as a practical playbook. We will examine how the Three Lines of Defense evolve when applied to programmable financial infrastructure, and what institutions across the US and Europe must get right in 2026 to operate stablecoins with confidence.
Built for security, risk, compliance, treasury, and operations leaders responsible for stablecoin systems in production environments.
Speakers:
Marshall Lipman, VP of Strategy at Hypernative @ Hypernative
Rajiv Sawhney, Head of International Portfolio Management @ Wave Digital Assets
Derek Rein, VP of Engineering @ Reown (prev. WalletConnect)
Patrick McKelvy, Director of Engineering @ Reserve