panellists: Regulation, derivatives helping drive TradFi institutions into crypto, panellists say

Non-participation in decentralized finance is becoming a career risk for traditional finance professionals, panellists said. What to know : Major financial institutions are expanding into crypto derivatives as clearer U.S. regulation helps make digital assets a mainstream portfolio allocation. New products such as overnight rate futures, multitoken indexes and access to DeFi liquidity are enabling institutional investors to move beyond bitcoin into broader crypto exposure and arbitrage strategies. Futures and other derivatives, underpinned by a robust industrywide beta benchmark, will channel trillions of dollars of institutional capital into crypto, making non-participation a growing career risk for traditional finance professionals, panellists said.