On 5 May 2025, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) published the ‘full agenda and list of panelists’ for its upcoming public roundtable titled “Tokenisation — Moving Assets Onchain: Where TradFi and DeFi Meet.” The event is scheduled for 12 May 2025 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET and will take place at the Commission’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The roundtable forms part of the US SEC Crypto Task Force’s broader engagement with industry, academia, and technology leaders on regulatory implications in emerging crypto asset markets.
Led by Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, the event is expected to explore how tokenisation is reshaping capital formation and institutional access to digital assets. Commissioner Peirce stated: “Tokenisation is a technological development that could substantially change many aspects of our financial markets, I look forward to hearing ideas from our panelists on how the SEC should approach this area.”
The roundtable will open with remarks by Crypto Task Force Chief of Staff Richard B. Gabbert, Chairman Paul S. Atkins, and Commissioners Caroline A. Crenshaw, Mark T. Uyeda, and Hester M. Peirce.
The first panel, titled “Evolution of Finance: Capital Markets 2.0,” will be moderated by Jeff Dinwoodie (Cravath) and feature senior representatives from leading crypto institutions, such as Fidelity, Nasdaq, Invesco, Franklin Templeton, BlackRock, Apollo Management, Tokenised Asset Coalition, DTCC, and SuperState. This panel will discuss in detail on the modernisation of capital markets through blockchain-based tokenisation and the practical integration of on-chain infrastructure into regulated markets.
Following a brief intermission, the second session, titled “The Future of Tokenisation,” will be moderated by Tiffany Smith (WilmerHale) and feature academic, technological, and venture perspectives. Panelists include experts from Chia Network, Robinhood, Canton, Maple Finance, Securitise, Blockchain Capital, and American University Washington College of Law, along with prominent independent researchers. This panel will explore regulatory design principles, the institutionalisation of tokenised instruments, and cross-jurisdictional alignment in token finance.
The event will be open to the public, webcast live on www.sec.gov, and accessible without registration for virtual attendees. In-person attendance requires advance registration.
(Source: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-72)
