Institutional Horizons: Capital, Yield & Liquidity
An exclusive, closed-door gathering during Token2049 in Dubai, bringing together institutional investors — including family offices, asset managers, investment funds, VCs, and other key market participants.
🕒 Over the course of 3 focused hours, participants will explore:
• High-conviction capital strategies
• Yield opportunities that have become liquid through tokenization
• Exposure to tokenized real-world assets
• Alternative credit strategies
🏛️ Hosted by:
Liqvid.xyz is a regulatory-compliant protocol for RWA investment strategies tokenization & portfolio management.
Founding team:
Hersi Shima – ex-BlackRock, VP at Global Fixed Income
Denis Polulyakhov – co-founder of Asterizm Protocol
Ignat Shapkin – ex-Head of Portfolio Management at Edge Capital
As part of the program, we’ll host two expert discussions:
Panel Discussion: “Building Conviction Among Institutional Capital Allocators Amid Monetary and Geopolitical Shifts”
— with participation from Liqvid Co-Founder Hersi Shima (former VP at BlackRock) and representatives of leading institutional players (names TBA).
Fireside Chat: “Institutional Portfolio Management: Navigating the Crypto Market to Extract Alpha”
— featuring Liqvid’s Chief Investment Officer, Ignat Shapkin (former Head of Portfolio Management at Edge Capital), in conversation with DeFi-native investment professionals.
— What to expect?
Sharp insights, curated connections, and tactical discussions around risk management, portfolio strategies, and asset class allocation in today’s rapidly evolving macro and digital asset landscape.
— Who is coming?
Family offices, institutional asset managers, hedge funds, liquidity providers, VCs, private credit shops, RWA protocols, and alternative yield funds.
📅 Date: 01/05
⏰ Time: 15:30-7:00 pm
Co-hosted by:
webwise.vc - WebWise Capital is an early-stage VC fund focused on AI, blockchain projects. We invest as fund of funds, directly, as a venture builder and accelerator.
funders.vc - Funders VC a venture firm investing in defAI, RWA, and infrastructure. Founded by entrepreneurs with deep operator experience, it has backed 15+ startups and is actively deploying capital to build an ecosystem of bold, technical founders — growing a founder-first ecosystem.
Sponsored by:
Asterizm.io - an institutional-grade blockchain interoperability infrastructure for DeFi, RWAs, and enterprise blockchains. Asterizm leverages a unique architecture that does not rely on off-chain validators, reducing the cost and increasing the privacy of cross-chain transactions (for private enterprise chains).
omypayments.com - A DeFi-native payment infrastructure.
Aegis.im - a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin that delivers live proof-of-reserves, automatic yield, and total freedom from the legacy banking system.