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Traditional capital markets and decentralized finance are converging around digital assets. That shift needs access, liquidity, and capital.
DeFi Technologies (NASDAQ: $DEFT) operates across all three. It is a picks-and-shovels platform for institutional digital asset markets, ing subsidiaries, Valour and Stillman Digital, supported by Alpha and Venture.
Valour gives investors access to more than 100 digital asset Exchange Traded Products, bought and sold like a stock through traditional banks and brokers. Stillman Digital powers institutional liquidity and execution, with more than $50B in client volume.
DeFi Technologies (NASDAQ: $DEFT) operates across all three. It is a picks-and-shovels platform for institutional digital asset markets, ing subsidiaries, Valour and Stillman Digital, supported by Alpha and Venture.
Valour gives investors access to more than 100 digital asset Exchange Traded Products, bought and sold like a stock through traditional banks and brokers. Stillman Digital powers institutional liquidity and execution, with more than $50B in client volume.
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Where does the next wave of capital into digital assets come from? 🌐
That was the question at our panel “Opening Access to Digital Assets: Products, Platforms and Investor Demands,” part of the Madrid edition of the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series, moderated by Soledad 📊 Here’s what the panelists discussed:
🔹 How private banks and family offices, working through model portfolios, could shape future demand for regulated products
🔹 How allocators think about exposure beyond Bitcoin, and the role crypto indices like the DVIO Index play as a source of market data and benchmarking
🔹 What bank clients look for in digital asset products
🔹 What makes a blockchain project a sustainable business
💡 A common thread: access to digital assets grows when it fits the way investors already work.
🎤 Thank you to Soledad, our panelists @Forson (@DeFiTechGlobal), Andrea Disarò (@DeFiTechGlobal), Jacob Lindberg (@ValourFunds) and Guillermo Barco Muñoz (@Swissquote), and everyone who joined us in Madrid.
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
That was the question at our panel “Opening Access to Digital Assets: Products, Platforms and Investor Demands,” part of the Madrid edition of the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series, moderated by Soledad 📊 Here’s what the panelists discussed:
🔹 How private banks and family offices, working through model portfolios, could shape future demand for regulated products
🔹 How allocators think about exposure beyond Bitcoin, and the role crypto indices like the DVIO Index play as a source of market data and benchmarking
🔹 What bank clients look for in digital asset products
🔹 What makes a blockchain project a sustainable business
💡 A common thread: access to digital assets grows when it fits the way investors already work.
🎤 Thank you to Soledad, our panelists @Forson (@DeFiTechGlobal), Andrea Disarò (@DeFiTechGlobal), Jacob Lindberg (@ValourFunds) and Guillermo Barco Muñoz (@Swissquote), and everyone who joined us in Madrid.
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
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DeFi Technologies' Subsidiary @ValourFunds Launches Eight New Digital Asset ETPs on Spotlight Stock Market, Expanding Access to AI, Institutional Blockchain, DeFi and Community Tokens prnewswire.com/news-releases/… $DEFT
Today, we have listed eight new products on @SpotlightStockM!
All eight are denominated in SEK and can be traded through your regular brokerage account, such as @NordnetSE @NordnetNO @nordnetFI @NordnetDK @avanzabank
@AskVenice @CantonNetwork @Raydium @Morpho @maplefinance onk_inu
$DEFT base:0xacfe6019ed1a7dc6f7b508c02d1b04ec88cc21bf canton-network:native solana:4k3Dyjzvzp8eMZWUXbBCjEvwSkkk59S5iCNLY3QrkX6R ethereum:0x58d97b57bb95320f9a05dc918aef65434969c2b2 ethereum:0x643c4e15d7d62ad0abec4a9bd4b001aa3ef52d66 solana:pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn solana:EKpQGSJtjMFqKZ9KQanSqYXRcF8fBopzLHYxdM65zcjm solana:DezXAZ8z7PnrnRJjz3wXBoRgixCa6xjnB7YaB1pPB263
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📊 Is real diversification possible in crypto today?
That was the opening question for Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, at our @DeFiTechGlobal Capital Markets Series during @mmerge_io Madrid.
The short answer is yes, though most digital asseoin, so diversification reduces single-token risk rather than market risk. The hard part is how. Consistently picking winners is extremely difficult, and concentrated bets often add risk instead of reducing it. In equities, investors rely on rules-based indices rather than trying to pick the right stocks.
The DEFT Valour Investment Opportunity (DVIO) Index applies that rules-based approach to tracking where investor capital is moving in digital assets. It’s built on flows into Valour regulated ETPs, weighted by AUM, adjusted for flow momentum and rebalanced weekly. Because weights follow capital, emerging names show up as investors move into them.
💡 What allocators can read from DVIO each week:
🔹 Rotation: whether capital is favoring Bitcoin or altcoins, through the DVIO Altcoin Barometer.
🔹 Divergence: steady inflows into a falling price can point to accumulation.
🔹 Early signals: the Watchlist flags assets outside the top 50 as investor interest starts to build.
This post is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
🌐 Read the weekly #DVIO reports: defi.tech/indices/insigh…
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
That was the opening question for Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, at our @DeFiTechGlobal Capital Markets Series during @mmerge_io Madrid.
The short answer is yes, though most digital asseoin, so diversification reduces single-token risk rather than market risk. The hard part is how. Consistently picking winners is extremely difficult, and concentrated bets often add risk instead of reducing it. In equities, investors rely on rules-based indices rather than trying to pick the right stocks.
The DEFT Valour Investment Opportunity (DVIO) Index applies that rules-based approach to tracking where investor capital is moving in digital assets. It’s built on flows into Valour regulated ETPs, weighted by AUM, adjusted for flow momentum and rebalanced weekly. Because weights follow capital, emerging names show up as investors move into them.
💡 What allocators can read from DVIO each week:
🔹 Rotation: whether capital is favoring Bitcoin or altcoins, through the DVIO Altcoin Barometer.
🔹 Divergence: steady inflows into a falling price can point to accumulation.
🔹 Early signals: the Watchlist flags assets outside the top 50 as investor interest starts to build.
This post is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
🌐 Read the weekly #DVIO reports: defi.tech/indices/insigh…
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
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DeFi Technologies Announces Shareholder Call to Discuss Q3 2026 Financial Results prnewswire.com/news-releases/… $DEFT
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🎤 What does a bank need before it builds onchain? Proof it can still meet its sanctions and KYC obligations.
At our DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series during @mmerge_io Madrid, Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales at @OPLabsPBC, presented Optimism as a way to build on trols in place.
OP Mainnet has run with 99.99% uptime and zero loss-of-funds events since its launch in 2021, and the OP Stack powers more than 50 production chains.
Across the wider Ethereum ecosystem, Santander, Deutsche Bank and BlackRock already have projects.
A J.P. Morgan and MIT DCI paper, “Public Blockchains and Regulated Financial Institutions,” names four risks for financial institutions. Carlos showed how a layer 2 built on Optimism’s OP Stack handles each one.
1️⃣ Front-running. On public blockchains, others can see a trade before it goes through and jump ahead of it. On a layer 2, one known operator orders transactions, and pending trades stay out of public view.
2️⃣ Censorship. Urgent transactions, such as a settlement, must go through even when the network is busy. A layer 2 can set aside block space for critical transactions like these, used only when needed. If the operator still leaves one out, the bank can send it through Ethereum directly.
3️⃣ Unsolicited tokens. Anyone can send tokens to any wallet, including unknown or sanctioned senders. Wallets can be set to accept only approved tokens and counterparties. The tools exist today. A ready-made product for banks is still to come.
4️⃣ Fees paid to sanctioned entities. Every transaction pays a fee to whoever processes it, and a bank cannot always tell who that is. A bank running its own layer 2 can use only processors checked against a sanctions list.
💡 His point for compliance teams: anything built and audited for Ethereum works on OP Mainnet unchanged. For an institution seeking approval, that saves months of extra audit work.
Thank you, Carlos, for a session full of practical detail.
@Valour | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
At our DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series during @mmerge_io Madrid, Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales at @OPLabsPBC, presented Optimism as a way to build on trols in place.
OP Mainnet has run with 99.99% uptime and zero loss-of-funds events since its launch in 2021, and the OP Stack powers more than 50 production chains.
Across the wider Ethereum ecosystem, Santander, Deutsche Bank and BlackRock already have projects.
A J.P. Morgan and MIT DCI paper, “Public Blockchains and Regulated Financial Institutions,” names four risks for financial institutions. Carlos showed how a layer 2 built on Optimism’s OP Stack handles each one.
1️⃣ Front-running. On public blockchains, others can see a trade before it goes through and jump ahead of it. On a layer 2, one known operator orders transactions, and pending trades stay out of public view.
2️⃣ Censorship. Urgent transactions, such as a settlement, must go through even when the network is busy. A layer 2 can set aside block space for critical transactions like these, used only when needed. If the operator still leaves one out, the bank can send it through Ethereum directly.
3️⃣ Unsolicited tokens. Anyone can send tokens to any wallet, including unknown or sanctioned senders. Wallets can be set to accept only approved tokens and counterparties. The tools exist today. A ready-made product for banks is still to come.
4️⃣ Fees paid to sanctioned entities. Every transaction pays a fee to whoever processes it, and a bank cannot always tell who that is. A bank running its own layer 2 can use only processors checked against a sanctions list.
💡 His point for compliance teams: anything built and audited for Ethereum works on OP Mainnet unchanged. For an institution seeking approval, that saves months of extra audit work.
Thank you, Carlos, for a session full of practical detail.
@Valour | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
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🎤 Before an asset manager puts client money into Ethereum, it needs to know the network will hold up for decades. What does that take?
@MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director and Co-founder of the @EuEthInstitute, made the case for Ethereum at our DeFi Technologies Capital Markets o Madrid. Four points stood out.
1️⃣ A bug doesn’t stop it. Ethereum runs on several independent software clients, and no single one should exceed a third of the network. Geth has dropped from 85% in 2022 to 36% today. When a bug stalled 5.4% of nodes in 2025, the chain kept running.
2️⃣ It is still being built. Main chain capacity doubled in 2025, and the next upgrade prepares for more than three times that. Based on what Ethereum Foundation researchers have said, Marina expects about five more years of upgrades.
3️⃣ Settled, but not yet legally final. Reversing a settled Ethereum transaction is designed to be ruinously expensive: OpenZeppelin puts the cost of forcing a fraudulent settlement at $50.7B. Yet EU law has not defined when a blockchain transaction is legally final, and for tokenized assets that matters as much as the technology.
4️⃣ Liquidity decides. Asked about competing chains in the Q&A, Marina noted that projects often launch elsewhere and later move to Ethereum, where about 52% of all stablecoins sit, with its layer 2s. Sooner or later, she said, “the board or your boss is going to ask you about KPIs,” and liquidity will be one of them.
💡 She closed on quantum computing. Ethereum targets quantum resistance by about 2029, and Marina argued that AI’s progress on hard math could justify 2028. According to OpenZeppelin, no network it assessed runs post-quantum cryptography in production today.
Thank you, Marina, for a session that covered the risks as carefully as the opportunities. And thank you to MERGE Madrid for having us.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
@MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director and Co-founder of the @EuEthInstitute, made the case for Ethereum at our DeFi Technologies Capital Markets o Madrid. Four points stood out.
1️⃣ A bug doesn’t stop it. Ethereum runs on several independent software clients, and no single one should exceed a third of the network. Geth has dropped from 85% in 2022 to 36% today. When a bug stalled 5.4% of nodes in 2025, the chain kept running.
2️⃣ It is still being built. Main chain capacity doubled in 2025, and the next upgrade prepares for more than three times that. Based on what Ethereum Foundation researchers have said, Marina expects about five more years of upgrades.
3️⃣ Settled, but not yet legally final. Reversing a settled Ethereum transaction is designed to be ruinously expensive: OpenZeppelin puts the cost of forcing a fraudulent settlement at $50.7B. Yet EU law has not defined when a blockchain transaction is legally final, and for tokenized assets that matters as much as the technology.
4️⃣ Liquidity decides. Asked about competing chains in the Q&A, Marina noted that projects often launch elsewhere and later move to Ethereum, where about 52% of all stablecoins sit, with its layer 2s. Sooner or later, she said, “the board or your boss is going to ask you about KPIs,” and liquidity will be one of them.
💡 She closed on quantum computing. Ethereum targets quantum resistance by about 2029, and Marina argued that AI’s progress on hard math could justify 2028. According to OpenZeppelin, no network it assessed runs post-quantum cryptography in production today.
Thank you, Marina, for a session that covered the risks as carefully as the opportunities. And thank you to MERGE Madrid for having us.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
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🎤 Bitcoin’s core traits have been there for years. So why are institutions arriving now?
At our DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series during @mmerge_io Madrid, @juan_i_ibanez, Executive Director at @MiCA_Alliance, walked through what has changed. Two shifts stood out.
1️⃣ e. It could not be both a cheap everyday payment system and a secure, decentralised network. Its community chose security: a store of value first, like digital gold, with payments built on top. As Juan put it: “We don’t need the Bitcoin network itself to become a replacement for Visa.” Bitcoin also stopped positioning itself as a rival to commercial banks, at least in the short term. For banks and asset managers, it became an asset they could hold and offer.
2️⃣ Regulation caught up. MiCA, the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, gave institutions licensed firms to hold the assets for them, a disclosure document, called a white paper, for each crypto asset, and common rules for comparing providers.
Juan also pointed to professional custody, which solves the question of who holds an institution’s private keys. His conclusion: most people will reach Bitcoin through regulated intermediaries, such as licensed providers and exchange-traded products.
💡 One of his sharpest points: “Bitcoin is not a financial asset, it’s a real asset.” Like gold or property, it pays no interest or dividends, so judging it by the income it produces misses the point. Any yield on Bitcoin is compensation for taking on risk.
Thanks to Juan for the session, and to @mmerge_io Madrid for hosting the series.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
At our DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series during @mmerge_io Madrid, @juan_i_ibanez, Executive Director at @MiCA_Alliance, walked through what has changed. Two shifts stood out.
1️⃣ e. It could not be both a cheap everyday payment system and a secure, decentralised network. Its community chose security: a store of value first, like digital gold, with payments built on top. As Juan put it: “We don’t need the Bitcoin network itself to become a replacement for Visa.” Bitcoin also stopped positioning itself as a rival to commercial banks, at least in the short term. For banks and asset managers, it became an asset they could hold and offer.
2️⃣ Regulation caught up. MiCA, the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, gave institutions licensed firms to hold the assets for them, a disclosure document, called a white paper, for each crypto asset, and common rules for comparing providers.
Juan also pointed to professional custody, which solves the question of who holds an institution’s private keys. His conclusion: most people will reach Bitcoin through regulated intermediaries, such as licensed providers and exchange-traded products.
💡 One of his sharpest points: “Bitcoin is not a financial asset, it’s a real asset.” Like gold or property, it pays no interest or dividends, so judging it by the income it produces misses the point. Any yield on Bitcoin is compensation for taking on risk.
Thanks to Juan for the session, and to @mmerge_io Madrid for hosting the series.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
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🎤 The S&P 500 existed for years before anyone could invest in it. At the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series during @mmerge_io Madrid, our President, @Forson, made the case that digital assets are on the same path.
The index came first and the product to own it came later. Todae of the most common ways people invest in equities. Andrew believes regulated, listed products will play the same role for institutions and professional investors in digital assets.
Andrew, who's also Chief Growth Officer of @ValourFunds, kept it practical. If you're dealing with tax, trusts or estate planning, a listed product in a brokerage account is far easier to work with than a set of keys. The industry has managed assets in brokerage accounts for decades. Wallets are much newer.
He also showed how the rest of the group fits around that idea:
🔹 @DigitalStillman, our prime broker, works with banks, family offices and hedge funds that need to execute large positions with minimal price impact.
🔹 Neuronomics, our Swiss AI asset manager, builds trading strategies using machine learning and behavioral science. Its strategy now powers Smart Crypto SP, Valour’s first hedge fund.
🔹 Our venture arm backs the financial infrastructure companies building what comes next, including regulated stablecoins and compute for AI.
He closed on a shift that's already underway: AI, agents, digital assets and stablecoins are increasingly connected.
Thanks to @mmerge_io Madrid for hosting this edition of the series, and to everyone who joined us.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
The index came first and the product to own it came later. Todae of the most common ways people invest in equities. Andrew believes regulated, listed products will play the same role for institutions and professional investors in digital assets.
Andrew, who's also Chief Growth Officer of @ValourFunds, kept it practical. If you're dealing with tax, trusts or estate planning, a listed product in a brokerage account is far easier to work with than a set of keys. The industry has managed assets in brokerage accounts for decades. Wallets are much newer.
He also showed how the rest of the group fits around that idea:
🔹 @DigitalStillman, our prime broker, works with banks, family offices and hedge funds that need to execute large positions with minimal price impact.
🔹 Neuronomics, our Swiss AI asset manager, builds trading strategies using machine learning and behavioral science. Its strategy now powers Smart Crypto SP, Valour’s first hedge fund.
🔹 Our venture arm backs the financial infrastructure companies building what comes next, including regulated stablecoins and compute for AI.
He closed on a shift that's already underway: AI, agents, digital assets and stablecoins are increasingly connected.
Thanks to @mmerge_io Madrid for hosting this edition of the series, and to everyone who joined us.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
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🇪🇸 Yesterday, we hosted our first DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series in Spain, at @mmerge_io Madrid, together with @ValourFunds and @DigitalStillman.
Representatives from 25+ organizations joined us, including European banks, asset managers, investors, supervisory ncies and digital asset infrastructure providers.
Over the afternoon, we covered regulated access to digital assets, with deep dives on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Optimism, an introduction to the DVIO Index, and a closing panel on products, platforms and investor demand.
Thank you to our speakers:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, TEP, President, @DeFiTechGlobal, and Chief Growth Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales, @Optimism
🔹 Guillermo Barco Muñoz, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets, @Swissquote
🔹 Jacob Lindberg, Chief Revenue Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, Founder & CEO, @BlackVogel_
🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Co-Founder & Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute
🔹 Soledad Contreras, Head of Partnerships, EMEA & APAC, @CoinDesk
And thank you to @mmerge_io, @paulapascualc_ and to everyone who joined us. ¡Gracias, Madrid!
📩 For participation and partnership opportunities at upcoming editions, please contact events@defi.tech
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
Representatives from 25+ organizations joined us, including European banks, asset managers, investors, supervisory ncies and digital asset infrastructure providers.
Over the afternoon, we covered regulated access to digital assets, with deep dives on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Optimism, an introduction to the DVIO Index, and a closing panel on products, platforms and investor demand.
Thank you to our speakers:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, TEP, President, @DeFiTechGlobal, and Chief Growth Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales, @Optimism
🔹 Guillermo Barco Muñoz, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets, @Swissquote
🔹 Jacob Lindberg, Chief Revenue Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, Founder & CEO, @BlackVogel_
🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Co-Founder & Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute
🔹 Soledad Contreras, Head of Partnerships, EMEA & APAC, @CoinDesk
And thank you to @mmerge_io, @paulapascualc_ and to everyone who joined us. ¡Gracias, Madrid!
📩 For participation and partnership opportunities at upcoming editions, please contact events@defi.tech
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
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RT @CSchlauf: The value of DVIO extends beyond the performance of an individual index.
It provides a framework for analyzing digital asset…
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🎙 @Forson, President of @DeFiTechBrasil and Chief Growth Officer of @ValourFunds, joined a panel this week on institutional access to DeFi yield, alongside Fluid, @Stakely_io and @RSM_es.
His argument was about simplicity.
🔹 If you cannot explain it, nobody will invest in it. it has to be easy. In digital assets the industry tends to lead with technology, charts and complexity, which is exactly what loses the room.
🔹 Know who is actually making the decision. At a large institution the capital sits with people who are not going to manage wallets, keys or staking infrastructure. A proposal that requires changes to their technical infrastructure fails before it is evaluated.
🔹 Digital assets are the most alternative of alternative assets. The entire sector has a smaller market capitalisation than several individual listed companies. For most asset managers this is a small allocation in an unfamiliar category, so the route in has to be familiar.
🔹 The ISIN is the answer. Valour wraps digital assets in exchange-traded products with an ISIN, the universal identifier that hedge fund managers, family offices and private equity firms already use. An investor gains exposure to digital assets, and to the yield associated with them, through an ordinary brokerage account. No wallet, no key management, no new infrastructure.
Traditional capital markets reaching decentralised finance through structures they already understand. That is what Valour builds.
Thank you to @mmerge_io for hosting, and to our fellow panelists DMH of Fluid, José Antonio Hernández Solano of @Stakely_io, Pedro Sandoval of @RSM_es and moderator Xavi Armengol for a sharp conversation.
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
His argument was about simplicity.
🔹 If you cannot explain it, nobody will invest in it. it has to be easy. In digital assets the industry tends to lead with technology, charts and complexity, which is exactly what loses the room.
🔹 Know who is actually making the decision. At a large institution the capital sits with people who are not going to manage wallets, keys or staking infrastructure. A proposal that requires changes to their technical infrastructure fails before it is evaluated.
🔹 Digital assets are the most alternative of alternative assets. The entire sector has a smaller market capitalisation than several individual listed companies. For most asset managers this is a small allocation in an unfamiliar category, so the route in has to be familiar.
🔹 The ISIN is the answer. Valour wraps digital assets in exchange-traded products with an ISIN, the universal identifier that hedge fund managers, family offices and private equity firms already use. An investor gains exposure to digital assets, and to the yield associated with them, through an ordinary brokerage account. No wallet, no key management, no new infrastructure.
Traditional capital markets reaching decentralised finance through structures they already understand. That is what Valour builds.
Thank you to @mmerge_io for hosting, and to our fellow panelists DMH of Fluid, José Antonio Hernández Solano of @Stakely_io, Pedro Sandoval of @RSM_es and moderator Xavi Armengol for a sharp conversation.
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
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🇪🇸 The DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series heads to Spain for an exclusive VIP session at MERGE Madrid. 🔎
The afternoon opens with a keynote and moves through three Asset Deep Dives on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Optimism, covering the infrastructure behind each asset, how , and the regulated routes to exposure. It then introduces the DVIO Index and closes with a panel on products, platforms, and investor demand.
🎤 Speakers:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, President, @DeFiTechGlobal & Chief Growth Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales, @OPLabsPBC
🔹 Guillermo Barco Muñoz, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets, @Swissquote
🔹 Jacob Lindberg, Chief Revenue Officer, Valour
🔹 @juan_i_ibanez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, CEO, @BlackVogel_
🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute
🔹 Soledad Contreras, Head of Partnerships, @CoinDesk
🤝 Designed for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, and capital allocators, the session shows how digital assets are assessed and selected, and what regulated, exchange-listed exposure looks like within a diversified portfolio.
📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during @mmerge_io
If you are an asset manager, institutional investor, or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 events@defi.tech
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
The afternoon opens with a keynote and moves through three Asset Deep Dives on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Optimism, covering the infrastructure behind each asset, how , and the regulated routes to exposure. It then introduces the DVIO Index and closes with a panel on products, platforms, and investor demand.
🎤 Speakers:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, President, @DeFiTechGlobal & Chief Growth Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales, @OPLabsPBC
🔹 Guillermo Barco Muñoz, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets, @Swissquote
🔹 Jacob Lindberg, Chief Revenue Officer, Valour
🔹 @juan_i_ibanez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, CEO, @BlackVogel_
🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute
🔹 Soledad Contreras, Head of Partnerships, @CoinDesk
🤝 Designed for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, and capital allocators, the session shows how digital assets are assessed and selected, and what regulated, exchange-listed exposure looks like within a diversified portfolio.
📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during @mmerge_io
If you are an asset manager, institutional investor, or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 events@defi.tech
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
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🇪🇸 The DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series is coming to Spain for an invite-only VIP session during
@mmerge_io Madrid. 🔎
The agenda features the closing panel, “Opening Access to Digital Assets: Products, Platforms and Investor Demand,” alongside a keynote and three infrastructure behind each asset, how adoption is progressing, and the regulated routes to exposure.
🎙️ About the panel
Institutional and private capital now reaches digital assets through exchange-traded products, venture funds, indices, and bank platforms that fit into existing custody and trading relationships. Each route solves a different problem and carries different constraints.
This panel puts the product side and the distribution side in the same room. It looks at what is being built, what investors are asking for, and where demand and available structures still do not match.
🎤 Panelists:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, President, DeFi Technologies & Chief Growth Officer,@ValourFunds
🔹 Guillermo Barco Muñoz, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets, @Swissquote
🔹 Jacob Lindberg, Chief Revenue Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Soledad Contreras, Head of Partnerships, @CoinDesk
🤝 The session is built for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, and capital allocators. It covers what assessment, selection, and regulated exchange-listed exposure look like inside a diversified portfolio.
📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during MERGE
🗓️ 28 October 2026
If you are an asset manager, institutional investor, or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 events@defi.tech
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
@mmerge_io Madrid. 🔎
The agenda features the closing panel, “Opening Access to Digital Assets: Products, Platforms and Investor Demand,” alongside a keynote and three infrastructure behind each asset, how adoption is progressing, and the regulated routes to exposure.
🎙️ About the panel
Institutional and private capital now reaches digital assets through exchange-traded products, venture funds, indices, and bank platforms that fit into existing custody and trading relationships. Each route solves a different problem and carries different constraints.
This panel puts the product side and the distribution side in the same room. It looks at what is being built, what investors are asking for, and where demand and available structures still do not match.
🎤 Panelists:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, President, DeFi Technologies & Chief Growth Officer,@ValourFunds
🔹 Guillermo Barco Muñoz, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets, @Swissquote
🔹 Jacob Lindberg, Chief Revenue Officer, @ValourFunds
🔹 Soledad Contreras, Head of Partnerships, @CoinDesk
🤝 The session is built for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, and capital allocators. It covers what assessment, selection, and regulated exchange-listed exposure look like inside a diversified portfolio.
📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during MERGE
🗓️ 28 October 2026
If you are an asset manager, institutional investor, or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 events@defi.tech
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
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🇪🇸 The @DeFiTechGlobal Capital Markets Series arrives in Spain, as a VIP session during MERGE Madrid.
Alongside the keynote and panel discussions the agenda includes three Asset Deep Dives for those who want to understand the infrastructure behind each asset, how adoption is gulated routes to exposure. 🔎
🔹 Bitcoin: Institutional Adoption & Regulated Access
Bitcoin’s evolution into an institutional asset class, the regulatory frameworks that enable access, and the role of physically-backed staking ETPs in portfolio construction.
🎤 Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 Ethereum: Capital Markets Infrastructure
Ethereum as the foundation for tokenized assets and institutional use cases, and staking yield as an investment strategy.
🎤 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute
🔹 Optimism: Technical Requirements for Institutional Adoption
What does it actually take to bring institutions onchain? Optimism shares the protocol-level requirements, from compliance controls and MEV protection to atomic interoperability, privacy and horizontal scaling, that brought Coinbse, Kraken, Uniswap, OKX, Bitpanda, Upbit and WhiteBIT to build their chain on Optimism.
🎤 Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales, Optimism
🤝 The session is built for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers and capital allocators, and covers what assessment, selection and regulated exchange-listed exposure look like inside a diversified portfolio.
📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during MERGE
🗓️ 28 October 2026
If you are an asset manager, institutional investor or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 events@defi.tech
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
Alongside the keynote and panel discussions the agenda includes three Asset Deep Dives for those who want to understand the infrastructure behind each asset, how adoption is gulated routes to exposure. 🔎
🔹 Bitcoin: Institutional Adoption & Regulated Access
Bitcoin’s evolution into an institutional asset class, the regulatory frameworks that enable access, and the role of physically-backed staking ETPs in portfolio construction.
🎤 Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 Ethereum: Capital Markets Infrastructure
Ethereum as the foundation for tokenized assets and institutional use cases, and staking yield as an investment strategy.
🎤 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute
🔹 Optimism: Technical Requirements for Institutional Adoption
What does it actually take to bring institutions onchain? Optimism shares the protocol-level requirements, from compliance controls and MEV protection to atomic interoperability, privacy and horizontal scaling, that brought Coinbse, Kraken, Uniswap, OKX, Bitpanda, Upbit and WhiteBIT to build their chain on Optimism.
🎤 Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales, Optimism
🤝 The session is built for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers and capital allocators, and covers what assessment, selection and regulated exchange-listed exposure look like inside a diversified portfolio.
📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during MERGE
🗓️ 28 October 2026
If you are an asset manager, institutional investor or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 events@defi.tech
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
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The final session at the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series London asked why indices matter now for digital assets.
@lornah111, Partner at @PartnersPenrose, moderated a conversation with:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, DeFi Technologies
🔹 Fiona Boal, bal Head of Equities at @SPDJIndices
Fiona set the scale. Around $200B sits in regulated crypto ETFs and ETPs, compared with trillions benchmarked to the S&P 500. Digital asset indexing is still early.
💡 What traditional indexing brings to digital assets:
🔹 A clear index objective: market cap weighted, single exposure, or thematic
🔹 Strong governance and a rules-based methodology
🔹 Investability: a coin trending on X may not qualify if investors can't access it
The panel also covered the hard problems. 24/7 markets have no daily close, an index can't be restated after the fact, and price transparency and custody remain top concerns.
On implementation, the DVIO approach uses a diversified 50-asset index built on regulated wrappers. It gives institutions a rules-based way to allocate 1–3% of a portfolio without picking individual tokens.
Thank you to Fiona, Lorna and @PartnersPenrose and @SPGlobal for a sharp discussion.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
@lornah111, Partner at @PartnersPenrose, moderated a conversation with:
🔹 Andrea Disarò, @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 @Forson, DeFi Technologies
🔹 Fiona Boal, bal Head of Equities at @SPDJIndices
Fiona set the scale. Around $200B sits in regulated crypto ETFs and ETPs, compared with trillions benchmarked to the S&P 500. Digital asset indexing is still early.
💡 What traditional indexing brings to digital assets:
🔹 A clear index objective: market cap weighted, single exposure, or thematic
🔹 Strong governance and a rules-based methodology
🔹 Investability: a coin trending on X may not qualify if investors can't access it
The panel also covered the hard problems. 24/7 markets have no daily close, an index can't be restated after the fact, and price transparency and custody remain top concerns.
On implementation, the DVIO approach uses a diversified 50-asset index built on regulated wrappers. It gives institutions a rules-based way to allocate 1–3% of a portfolio without picking individual tokens.
Thank you to Fiona, Lorna and @PartnersPenrose and @SPGlobal for a sharp discussion.
@ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman
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🇬🇧 Watch the highlights from the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series at Canada House in London.
🏛️ The session brought together traditional financial players, digital asset experts, and regulators to examine how digital assets fit within a diversified portfolio and what ted exposure looks like in practice. Digital assets are becoming part of the infrastructure of modern finance, and institutional adoption is entering a new phase. The central question in the room was how to bring digital assets into the portfolios of traditional investors in a way they feel safe using.
📊 The roundtable explored what DeFi infrastructure needs to be transparent, reliable, and liquid, and how the combination of traditional finance and DeFi is shaping the future of capital markets. The discussion also covered portfolio valuation methodologies, the role of crypto indexes in portfolio construction, and how ETPs give investors a professional, regulated way to access this asset class while preserving the operational frameworks institutions rely on.
🎤 We thank our speakers for their contributions:
🔹 @Forson, President of DeFi Technologies and Chief Growth Officer of Valour
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis at @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 Fiona Boal, Managing Director & Global Head of Equities at @SPDJIndices
🔹 @juan_i_ibanez. Executive Director at the @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 @LynnMaxwell123, Head, Strategic Client Engagement at @SPGlobal
🔹 @lornah111, Partner at @PartnersPenrose
🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, CEO of @BlackVogel_
🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director of @EuEthInstitute
🤝 A sincere thank you to our partners, S&P Global, Penrose Partners, the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, @BlackVogel_, @OMFIF, and @CanadaHouse, for making this event possible. Thank you also to the allocators who joined us and shared their interest in our products.
📩 For participation and partnership opportunities at upcoming editions, please contact events@defi.tech.
🎥 Watch the video 👇
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
🏛️ The session brought together traditional financial players, digital asset experts, and regulators to examine how digital assets fit within a diversified portfolio and what ted exposure looks like in practice. Digital assets are becoming part of the infrastructure of modern finance, and institutional adoption is entering a new phase. The central question in the room was how to bring digital assets into the portfolios of traditional investors in a way they feel safe using.
📊 The roundtable explored what DeFi infrastructure needs to be transparent, reliable, and liquid, and how the combination of traditional finance and DeFi is shaping the future of capital markets. The discussion also covered portfolio valuation methodologies, the role of crypto indexes in portfolio construction, and how ETPs give investors a professional, regulated way to access this asset class while preserving the operational frameworks institutions rely on.
🎤 We thank our speakers for their contributions:
🔹 @Forson, President of DeFi Technologies and Chief Growth Officer of Valour
🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis at @DeFiTechGlobal
🔹 Fiona Boal, Managing Director & Global Head of Equities at @SPDJIndices
🔹 @juan_i_ibanez. Executive Director at the @MiCA_Alliance
🔹 @LynnMaxwell123, Head, Strategic Client Engagement at @SPGlobal
🔹 @lornah111, Partner at @PartnersPenrose
🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, CEO of @BlackVogel_
🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director of @EuEthInstitute
🤝 A sincere thank you to our partners, S&P Global, Penrose Partners, the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, @BlackVogel_, @OMFIF, and @CanadaHouse, for making this event possible. Thank you also to the allocators who joined us and shared their interest in our products.
📩 For participation and partnership opportunities at upcoming editions, please contact events@defi.tech.
🎥 Watch the video 👇
@DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman
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What if a crypto fund could decide which assets to hold, when to invest and how much to commit, all by algorithm?
That's the idea behind Smart Crypto Fund SP, launched by @ValourFunds and managed by Neuronomics AG, a FINMA-authorised Swiss portfolio manager.
Crypto has offered ing it all the time has also meant deep drawdowns. Smart Crypto Fund SP takes a different approach. It is a fully algorithmic, AI-based fund that seeks to participate selectively in market opportunities and reduce exposure when conditions become less attractive.
It wasn't built overnight. Neuronomics was founded in Switzerland in 2015 and has run a live crypto strategy since July 2020, through rising, falling and sideways markets. Its process combines years of research in neuroscience, AI and markets, with a team rooted at the University of Zurich, EPFL and ETH Zurich.
Valour leads structuring, governance, investor relationships and distribution. Neuronomics leads research, models, trading and risk management. Smart Crypto Fund SP sits within Valour Funds SPC in the Cayman Islands.
For DeFi Technologies, it adds an actively managed strategy alongside Valour's ETP business and opens the door to investors who may not consider passive crypto products. $DEFT
That's the idea behind Smart Crypto Fund SP, launched by @ValourFunds and managed by Neuronomics AG, a FINMA-authorised Swiss portfolio manager.
Crypto has offered ing it all the time has also meant deep drawdowns. Smart Crypto Fund SP takes a different approach. It is a fully algorithmic, AI-based fund that seeks to participate selectively in market opportunities and reduce exposure when conditions become less attractive.
It wasn't built overnight. Neuronomics was founded in Switzerland in 2015 and has run a live crypto strategy since July 2020, through rising, falling and sideways markets. Its process combines years of research in neuroscience, AI and markets, with a team rooted at the University of Zurich, EPFL and ETH Zurich.
Valour leads structuring, governance, investor relationships and distribution. Neuronomics leads research, models, trading and risk management. Smart Crypto Fund SP sits within Valour Funds SPC in the Cayman Islands.
For DeFi Technologies, it adds an actively managed strategy alongside Valour's ETP business and opens the door to investors who may not consider passive crypto products. $DEFT
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