Nadine Chakar
Managing Director, Global
Head of DTCC Digital Assets
"2024 was a pivotal year for digital assets, and we’re seeing strong momentum toward adoption. More
and more institutional investors – on both the buy- and sell-side – continue to be getting engaged
with this technology. We also saw a lot of progress on the regulatory front, with the SEC’s approval
of Ethereum and Bitcoin ETFs in the US in 2024, and the first stages of the EU’s MiCA, the
first-ever blockchain-related asset regulation, coming into effect.
We still have our work cut out for us in 2025 and beyond. While we’ve clearly proven the merits of
this technology, it’s time to put real applications on the ledger using tokenization. As we move
beyond pilots and start putting projects into production, we’ll need to make sure we’re collectively
driving toward an end goal: building an efficient digital market infrastructure and standards.
Collaboration is the core ingredient that will help us capture the promise that digital assets hold.
DTCC is excited to be at the forefront, leading the charge for industry acceptance and greater
adoption of tokenization solutions. We are proud to have further advanced this work with the launch
of DTCC Digital Launchpad, an industry sandbox that’s bringing together financial market
participants and clearing the path to scalable adoption of digital assets. In 2025, we will continue
to focus on establishing the digital market infrastructure of the future, showcasing how we can
deliver the same efficiencies for digital assets as we do in traditional markets today, while also
ensuring smooth market operation, transparency and liquidity."