Building the Backbone of Institutional Crypto: Liquidity Summit 2026

Institutional adoption has shifted the debate in crypto from whether blockchain works to whether its infrastructure can endure institutional demands. At Liquidity Summit 2026 in Hong Kong, a panel titled “Building Institutional Rails for the Digital Asset Economy” brought together Alevtina Labyuk as moderator and panelists Chris Shin, Jay Kim, Zeng Xin, Sherry Zhu, and Ramzy Ali to address custody, regulatory alignment, and legacy integration.

Jay Kim flagged three core frictions: client data sovereignty, custody, and fragmented trading venues. He described Mirae’s hybrid approach that keeps sensitive client data off-chain while using the blockchain to represent assets and transfer value, and warned that aggregating diverse venues is a difficult but necessary task.

Chris Shin offered a similar hybrid path for Kyobo, building solutions outside legacy systems to prove concepts and then using that proof to win internal buy-in.

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