About this Event
invites you to a panel discussion:
Digital Assets and Tokenization: From Hype to Infrastructure — A Practical Briefing for Sophisticated Investors
Digital assets and tokenization have moved from a speculative story to something investors actually have to deal with. The market for tokenized real-world assets — Treasuries, private credit, money-market funds, and similar instruments represented on a blockchain — has grown from under $1 billion in 2022 to more than $30 billion by mid-2026. Major asset managers now treat it as a core allocation theme, not a side bet.
Still, this activity remains a small slice of the money managed by advisors and institutions today. That leaves family offices, RIAs, and allocators asking a fair question: what part of this is real, lasting infrastructure, and what's just noise?
This panel brings together distinct perspectives to help attendees cut through the noise and understand, in plain language, what's actually happening:
- A provider working directly in tokenized real-world assets, on how traditional assets move onto a blockchain and what that means for liquidity and access.
- A digital asset investment firm, on where strategies like decentralized finance, lending, and futures trading fit — and don't fit — into a traditional portfolio.
Speakers
- John Delalio, Partner, Blockchain and Digital Assets, EisnerAmper
- Kelly Ye, Co-founder and CIO, CoinBridge
- Ryan Zega, Head of Structured Finance, Aptos Labs
Agenda
- 6:00 pm Registration and networking reception with lite bites
- 6:30 pm Panel Discussion and Q&A
- 7:30 - 8:15 pm Networking reception
This panel discussion is sponsored and moderated by EisnerAmper.
Speaker Bio
John Delalio - He is a Partner in EisnerAmper's Blockchain & Digital Asset Services Group, where he helps digital asset companies build the financial systems and controls that satisfy auditors, investors, and regulators. What sets him apart is a technical background deeper than accounting. Over 25 years he has implemented major ERP systems, run data centers for SaaS businesses, and served as an enterprise architect for a major hospital system, giving him a clear view of which parts of tokenization are durable infrastructure and which are just noise. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the NY Tech Alliance.
Kelly Ye - She is Chief Investment Officer at Coinbridge, which is building the capital layer for onchain finance by bringing high-quality real-world assets onchain and constructing portfolios designed to meet investors’ risk-and-return objectives. She has nearly twenty years of experience in investing and product design spanning traditional finance and crypto, with leadership roles at Avenir Group, Decentral Park Capital, Fidelity Digital Asset Management, CoinDesk Indices, Goldman Sachs and New York Life Investments. Kelly holds a master’s degree from MIT and is a CFA charterholder.
Ryan Zega - He heads the financial services and institutional business development efforts at Aptos, a leading Layer 1 blockchain. Previously, Ryan was the Senior Director of Capital Markets and Business Development at tZERO, a global liquidity platform for private securities and digital assets. Prior to joining tZERO, Ryan had an extensive institutional real estate career across acquisitions, asset management, and debt origination. Most recently, he was Director of Acquisitions at Paramount Group, Inc. (NYSE: PRGE), a publicly traded REIT. Prior to that role, he was an Associate responsible for acquisitions and asset management at Normandy Real Estate Partners, a vertically-integrated real estate fund operator. Ryan commenced his career as an Investment Analyst at PGIM Real Estate, Prudential Financial's (NYSE: PRU) investment management division.
Event venue & nearby stays
EisnerAmper, 11 Grand Central East, New York, United States
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