The Institutional Crypto Expert: Everything Will Be Tokenized. Here Is Who Keeps It Safe

Nominate your company for The BeInCrypto Institutional 100: https://awards.beincrypto.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What is the single biggest thing stopping tier one banks from putting serious money on chain right now? Anoosh Arevshatian is the Chief Product Officer at Zodia Custody, an institutional digital asset custody platform backed by Standard Chartered, Northern Trust, SBI Holdings, National Australia Bank, and Emirates NBD. She previously served as Chief Risk Officer at the same firm, and before that spent seven years at Citi as SVP of Risk Framework and Strategy. She sits at the exact intersection of traditional finance and digital assets and in this conversation she breaks down exactly what is holding institutions back, what they are looking for before they commit, and where custody is heading as everything gets tokenized. CoinMarketCap ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ She explains: ◼️ Why cyber security and private key protection is the single biggest barrier keeping tier one banks out of crypto ◼️ Why the debate about T plus two to T plus one settlement is nothing compared to what blockchain makes possible ◼️ What TradFi institutions actually look at before they trust any DeFi protocol with their capital ◼️ Why the one habit crypto needs to steal from traditional finance is security and compliance by design ◼️ Why the role of custodian is evolving from a vault into core financial infrastructure ◼️ What the kill switch problem in smart contracts means for institutional DeFi adoption ◼️ Why Larry Fink is right that everything will be tokenized and what that means for custody ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Anoosh: LinkedIn — https://din.com/in/anoosh-arevshatian Follow Zodia Custody: Website — https://zodia-custody.com X — https://x.com/zodiacustody ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 More from BeInCrypto: 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Beincrypto 👉 BeInCrypto: https://beincrypto.com 👉 X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/beincrypto 👉 Telegram: https://t.me/+U8DQNp4b8Gw3YmZi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [00:00] Intro [00:30] What Stops Tier One Banks Going On Chain? [02:00] Have Banks Actually Started Moving In? [03:30] What Does Frictionless Settlement Actually Mean? [05:00] How Do Institutions Appraise A DeFi Protocol? [06:30] How Do You Trust Something Before You Have Skin In The Game? [07:30] The One TradFi Habit Crypto Desperately Needs [08:30] Will Custodians Become Validators? [09:30] How Does The Custodian Role Evolve In A Tokenized World? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DigitalAssetCustody #Tokenization #DeFi2026 #CryptoRegulation #TradFi #StandardChartered