Jason Guthrie | Source | Head of Digital Assets, Europe at WisdomTree

On traditional financial systems: "That system was built up over the last 100 years…it has just been incrementally built on top of each other, which leads to many complexities. It leads to many of the inefficiencies and silos we see. So if we can rebuild it on this new tech that offers more efficient financial logistics, we’ve got a much more stable base in which to kind of build and evolve and iterate the business models.”

The biggest problem for institutional adoption is that those institutions need to be able to adequately explain what they’re putting the client money into,” Guthrie explained. “So you’re educating them on how to educate clients.

As it inevitably continues to grow in prominence, institutions need an increasingly sophisticated tool kit to enable them to provide access effectively and efficiently to crypto asset markets for their clients.