The Institutional Readiness Test: Navigating the Shift to Digital Finance presented by Zerohash
DC Fintech WeekThu, Oct 29, 2026, 11:00 PM
Financial institutions are moving quickly to bring stablecoins, digital assets, and tokenized products into their businesses. Doing that at scale requires decisions that cut across product, technology, compliance, risk, operations, and third-party infrastructure. In this interactive workshop, Stephen Gardner, Co-President, zerohash, and Adam Leaman, Chief Client Officer, zerohash, will share a practical framework for evaluating those decisions. Drawing on their work and zerohash's nearly 10 years experience in navigating digital assets for major institutions, they'll explore which capabilities institutions should maintain internally, where infrastructure partners can accelerate execution, and how responsibilities should be divided as more financial activity moves onchain. Attendees will leave with: - A framework for assessing onchain readness across product, technology, risk, compliance and operations - A practical way to determine which capabilities to own, partner on, or manage through shared responsibilities - A clearer view of the decisions required to launch and scale stablecoin, digital asset, and tokenization initiatives • Stephen Gardner, Co-President, zerohash • Adam Leaman, Chief Client Officer, zerohash