Grayscale x Global Fintech Institute: Privacy, Proof and the Regulatory Perimeter

An official side event of TOKEN2049 Singapore, co-hosted by Global Fintech Institute and Grayscale.

Financial privacy and regulatory accountability are often treated as competing demands. Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn built Zcash on a premise worth testing in public: both can hold together in the same system. Supervisors across Asia want traceability. Institutions owe their clients confidentiality. The cryptography that serves both is now audited and deployed, moving the discussion from whether privacy can coexist with supervision to how the two are engineered together.

This in-person session brings leadership from the Zcash ecosystem together with institutional investors, regulators, academics and digital asset operators to examine where the regulatory perimeter sits and what it means for allocation, custody and compliance practice.

Explore how financial privacy and regulatory accountability can be designed into the same system.

Understand the tension between supervisory traceability and client confidentiality.

Examine what privacy-preserving infrastructure means for institutional allocation, custody and compliance.

Hear perspectives from the Zcash ecosystem on the practical deployment of privacy technology.

Consider how regulators and institutions across Asia can approach oversight of privacy-preserving digital assets.

Whether you are a regulator, institutional investor, academic or digital asset professional, join the discussion on how financial privacy can work in institutional practice.

All times are in Singapore time (SGT).

2:30 PM - Registration and welcome

3:00 PM - Opening remarks from Grayscale and Global Fintech Institute

3:10 PM - Panel discussion

4:30 PM - Refreshments and networking

6:00 PM - Close

Discussion Topics

Financial privacy and accountability within the same system

The regulatory perimeter for privacy-preserving digital assets

Client confidentiality and supervisory traceability

Implications for institutional allocation and custody

Compliance practice and the deployment of privacy-preserving cryptography

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Founder, Zcash

Michelle Lai

Executive Chair, Sovright

Liz Steininger

CEO, Least Authority and Industry Fellow, Global Fintech Institute

Moderator: Prof David Lee Kuo Chuen

Chairman, Global Fintech Institute

Further speakers nominated by Grayscale, ZODL and the Zcash Foundation will be announced.

Event is in person and registration is subject to approval. The venue will be shared with confirmed guests. Places are limited during TOKEN2049 week.

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