Can Regulated, Tokenized Assets Trade on Open Onchain Markets? Live Demo & Panel at Hong Kong Fintech Week
About the event
Can Regulated, Tokenized Assets Trade on Open Onchain Markets? is a closed-door session co-hosted by OpenZeppelin and Ethereum Institutional during Hong Kong Fintech Week, limited to 30 senior participants from banks, market infrastructure, and regulated asset issuers.
Bringing regulated assets onto open onchain markets raises real questions for institutions, from who enforces eligibility rules to how investor data stays protected, and there are good reasons most activity still runs on permissioned platforms.
This session explores what is technically possible today and where the open questions remain. Through a live walkthrough of a tokenized money market fund trading on an open onchain market, we'll look at how identity checks can run at every trade without personal data onchain, how a transfer agent can freeze an investor and have the market respect it on the next trade, and how a jurisdiction can be switched off while everyone else keeps trading.
A panel of industry experts then debates who should hold the keys when regulated assets meet open markets, and what it takes for institutions to go live. We close with a drinks reception.
Previous OpenZeppelin institutional events drew senior guests from firms including J.P. Morgan, Citi, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, BNY, Fidelity, Mastercard, Deloitte, and more.
Agenda
16:00 - 16:30
Doors open and welcome coffee
16:30 - 17:00
Live demo - Freeze, Block, Trade: A Regulated Fund on an Open Market (Bram Hoogenkamp, Product Manager, OpenZeppelin)
17:00 - 17:40
Panel: Who Holds the Keys? Control, Compliance and Open Markets (Panelists to be announced)
17:40 - 19:00
Drinks reception and networking
About us
OpenZeppelin (https://www.openzeppelin.com/) is the security standard for onchain finance. Since 2015, its industry-standard smart contracts library has powered $37 trillion in value transferred, alongside 900+ security engagements for leading institutions, blockchain networks, and protocols including DTCC, Fidelity Digital Assets, WisdomTree, Aave, the Canton Foundation and the Ethereum Foundation. Learn more at openzeppelin.com (https://openzeppelin.com).
Ethereum Institutional (https://ethereuminstitutional.org/) is an independent non-profit accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s and the wider ecosystem. Founded in 2026 with anchor funding from BitMine, SharpLink, Joseph Lubin and Mihai Alisie, it helps institutions move from requirements to live onchain deployments. Learn more at ethereuminstitutional.org (https://ethereuminstitutional.org).
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