Stablecoins & RWAs
Location: Civic Hall, 5th Floor, Room 515
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Stablecoin expert, Austin Campbell (Paxos, JPM), will give us the latest on the stablecoin legislation and development. Ashish Anand will share his experience of developing India’s leading asset tokenization protocol and tokenization development in Emerging Markets.
Agenda:
6PM - Doors open & networking
6.30PM - Opening, Jamiel Sheikh, Founder, Blockchain NYC
6.35PM - 7.30PM - Talks
7.30PM - Q&A and Panel, Bryant Law, Producer, Blockchain NYC
8PM - Closing
Talks:
Austin Campbell, Managing Partner, Zero Knowledge Consulting
Current State of Stablecoins
Ashish Anand, Co-founder of Hyphen, India’s leading asset tokenization protocol
TradFi to DeFi : Tokenization and role of commercial banks
Bios
Austin Campbell
Austin Campbell is the managing partner and founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. Previously, he has run the stablecoin platform and portfolio management at Paxos as well as being the chief risk officer of Paxos National Trust, has managed fixed income trading desks at JP Morgan and Citi covering >$100B of cash derivatives, and has been a portfolio manager and structurer at Stone Ridge, the parent of NYDIG. He holds a BS in Mathematics from CSU Chico and a MBA from NYU Stern.
Ashish Anand
Ashish is Co-founder of Hyphen, a modular, compliant blockchain purpose-built for institutional adoption of tokenization and on-chain finance.
Initially serving institutional markets in India and Africa, Hyphen has already emerged as India’s largest asset tokenization protocol. To date, it has facilitated tokenization of over $800 million in assets and enabled $150 million in credit lines through partnerships with institutions such as the World Bank, Mastercard, over 10 commercial banks, and regulatory bodies. With its upcoming public mainnet launch, Hyphen is now gearing up for a global market rollout.
Before his work in asset tokenization, Ashish co-founded the Blockchain Advisory Council in 2017—a global consultancy DAO with a network of over 300 blockchain experts across five continents. As a founding member, he advised on business and token models across diverse verticals including remittances, asset management, logistics, and GDPR compliance. He also served on the Investment Advisory Board of BullToken (Norway) and the Advisory Board of SocialPay (USA).
Prior to his entrepreneurial journey in technology, Ashish spent 15 years in the commodity and currency markets focusing on market risk management. He is a Certified Public Accountant by qualification.