Institutional Horizons: Capital, Yield & Liquidity
An exclusive, closed-door gathering during EthCC in Cannes, 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 investment 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 Expert Panel Discussion:
Are We Witnessing the Next Financial Infrastructure Reset? — Exploring how capital allocators are responding to fragmentation in global markets, the decline of USD dominance, and the institutionalization of crypto-native infrastructure with participation from Liqvid Co-Founder Hersi Shima (former VP at BlackRock)
— 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: July 2th
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.
During TOKEN2049 in Dubai, we hosted a closed-door event — a private venue, great food, drinks, and a fantastic atmosphere.
🔗 Here’s a quick media recap from the event
At our previous event, we welcomed representatives from top-tier institutions such as Crypto.com, DraperDragon, Valos, Societe Generale, Brevan Howard, Psalion, Valos, Fluid, Polymorphic Capital, Hardcore Labs, Palm Global, Impossible Finance, LynxCap Investments , Fordefi, KuCoin, Foundation Ventures, OKX, MFT Capital, Helika Ventures, Funders VC, Cicada Capital, Pythagoras investment, Further Ventures, EMCD
Our panel discussions featured leading voices in the industry, including:
• Hersi Shima, CFA — Co-founder of Liqvid, ex-VP Global Fixed Income at BlackRock
• Peter Knez — Chairman & CEO at Palm Global, former Co-CIO at BlackRock
• Richard Wang — Managing Director at Draper Dragon
• Juuso Ahlroos — Co-founder & Head of Trading at Valos
• Ignat Shapkin — CIO at Liqvid, ex-Head of Portfolio Management at Edge Capital
• Philipp Vasilyev — Co-founder of Hardcore Labs
• Alexander I — General Partner at WebWise Capital, co-founder of EYWA
• Aleksandr Nechaev — Partner at Funders VC
• Ermin Saric — Co-founder at Aegis and Cointelegraph Research
We’re bringing this successful format back — this time during EthCC in Cannes on July 2. We’d love to see you at our event in Cannes!