The S&P 500 is the benchmark most equity portfolios are measured against. At @rwasummit, Cathy Clay of @SPDJIndices explained how the firm is helping define how that benchmark translates onchain, without changing what gives it credibility in the first place.

In the early days of DeFi, a good APY was enough to deploy capital. Today, the industry has matured, institutional capital is moving onchain, and yield is no longer at the top of the list. Mellow's founder @s0xn1ck shared his thoughts on what matters more at @rwasummit.

"Tokenized equities" can mean many things. At Superstate, it means the real, actual shares of a public company, only onchain. Not a new asset pretending to be an old one. The real asset, upgraded. @rleshner explains at @rwasummit.

What separates vault curators from fund managers? @PeiChen01 shared why non-custodial vaults give depositors more control and clear boundaries. Great conversation at the @rwasummit along with @Bitwise and @Surus_io. Appreciate @TuongvyLe12 (@veda_labs) moderating!

Customization has always been an operational overlay around a portfolio. @ThomasGSy of @NYLIManagement makes the case that programming those operations into the asset itself is what turns customization into a scalable model. With Elizabeth Yenko and @itsbhaji at @RWAsummit.

Dinari co-founder @GabeOtte on @rwasummit stage earlier. First on the machinery behind onchain equities, with @AlpacaHQ and @fintechfrank. Then with tokenization leaders @Ondo, @RobinhoodCrypto, @SuperstateInc and @RWA_xyz to discuss the different models for building them.

Opaque or fragmented information makes institutional due diligence harder. Sky Ecosystem is addressing that friction with verifiable collateral data & reporting. At @rwasummit, @John__Conneely explained that approach alongside leaders from @raincards, @dakota_xyz and @Paxos ↓

Finance is going onchain, but which chain? The answer from @rajachak75's session at @rwasummit this morning: an institutional-grade network is one that's open within its own ecosystem, not just interoperable with other chains on paper.

All right, stop! Collaborate and listen (to the verified data). 🎤 Great discussion about the criticality of accurate data and secure infrastructure at the @rwasummit alongside leaders from @FTSERussell, @moodysratings, and the @AIMA_org. Smart contracts can transform how financial markets operate, but accurate data and secure infrastructure must be the foundation. This is always a top priority for @chainlink. Word to your mother(board). 🎤

Spent Day 1 at @rwasummit in Brooklyn talking real-world assets with some of the sharpest people in the space. We're grateful to be featured on the mainstage and looking forward to Day 2.

Making their Real-World Asset Summit debut, we’re excited to welcome @ethereumJoseph, Founder and CEO of @Consensys and @Ethereum Co-Founder, to the Brooklyn 2026 speaker lineup. Joseph will take the stage for a fireside chat on how AI, tokenization, and programmable money are converging, and what that convergence could mean for the future of finance. Meet Joseph in Brooklyn, September 1 - 2.

Bitwise helped make the case for a Bitcoin ETF, then went and issued one. The leader of its investment strategy, @Matt_Hougan, joins the Real-World Asset Summit Brooklyn 2026 speaker lineup. As Chief Investment Officer, Hougan has helped push @Bitwise from that ETF into new digital asset product lines, including a major move into vaults. Don't miss his session in Brooklyn this September.

We're honored to welcome @carlosdomingo, CEO and Co-Founder of @Securitize, to the Real-World Asset Summit Brooklyn 2026 speaker lineup. A veteran of tokenization, Domingo was an early developer of tokenized securities and real-world asset solutions. He co-founded Securitize and has helped drive more than $5 billion in issuance through the platform, now publicly listed. Meet Carlos and the Securitize team in Brooklyn this September 1 - 2.

As @Nick_van_Eck recently put it: "We recognize the importance of a direct relationship with regulators... Without it, your ceiling is someone else's floor." We're honored to welcome Agora as a Pioneer Partner of the Real-World Asset Summit Brooklyn 2026, and to welcome Nick van Eck, CEO of @withAUSD, to this year's speaker lineup. Agora issues AUSD and provides the platform that enables fintechs, trading firms, and financial institutions to launch and manage digital dollars backed by custodied reserves. Meet Nick and the Agora team in Brooklyn this September 1 - 2.

Financial institutions are moving onto blockchain infrastructure built to keep their transactions private. @YuvalRooz, Co-Founder and CEO of @digitalasset, joins the Real-World Asset Summit Brooklyn 2026 speaker lineup. The company created the technology behind the @CantonNetwork, a public L1 with institutional-grade privacy and selective data sharing; and helped establish the foundation that governs it. Banks, exchanges, and asset managers use it to issue, settle, and mobilize instruments onchain. Rooz co-founded Digital Asset in 2014 after years running algorithmic trading desks, and he sits on the CFTC advisory subcommittee on digital asset markets. His position has held throughout: infrastructure has to be designed around privacy, compliance, and interoperability.

In 2008, the failure to deliver collateral cascaded into everything else. The unwind took more than a decade. Our Chief Content Officer, @mikejcasey, sat down with Dan Doney, MD, CTO, Digital Assets at @The_DTCC, last week, ahead of Dan taking the stage in Brooklyn this September. His case: Blockchain's killer use is preventing the systemic risk that nearly brought down global markets by making collateral portable and automatic. It's the same force behind "the other RWA," the risk-weighted assets that drive most of the $5 quadrillion DTCC settles a year. "If you're a bank and you're not engaged in the efficient movement of collateral, thanks to blockchain, you're gonna be at a serious competitive disadvantage to those who are." Catch Doney live at the Real-World Asset Summit Brooklyn 2026.

One of the largest active asset managers in the world is bringing its funds onchain. @ThomasGSy, Managing Director and Head of Multi-Asset Solutions at @NYLIManagement, makes his Real-World Asset Summit debut this September 1 - 2 in Brooklyn. His firm oversees roughly $800b+ in assets and recently partnered with @Centrifuge for its first tokenized product. Sy has become an influential voice for digital assets among fund managers, envisioning better investment products that also provide customization at scale for both institutions and investors.

The multi-trillion-dollar promise of tokenization gets unlocked at the seams, where DeFi meets TradFi. Few operators have a better vantage point on that frontier than @itsbhaji. From the helm of @centrifuge, one of the leading and longest-standing tokenization platforms, Bhaji brings a bird's-eye view of the rapidly expanding, multifaceted real-world asset ecosystem, and of the efforts to build the bridges between the DeFi and TradFi communities that this industry's multi-trillion-dollar future depends on. She joins the Real-World Asset Summit Brooklyn 2026 speaker lineup to share where those bridges are being built, and what it takes to cross them. As the originators of the Real-World Asset Summit, we're proud to welcome Centrifuge back as a visionary partner, continuing our collaboration to accelerate the inevitable $30 trillion tokenization opportunity.