Building the Infrastructure Layer for Digital Asset Risk: Metrika at Two GBBC Conferences

Over the coming weeks, Metrika will be at two Global Blockchain Business Council conferences on both sides of the Atlantic. These events come at a moment when the conversation around digital assets has shifted decisively, and they continue a thread that has run through our engagements all spring. As digital assets move further into institutional finance, the central question has become how to supervise and operate them responsibly.

Washington, DC: June 9-10

In Washington D.C., Renjie Butalid, VP Business Development, will be speaking on the panel "AI Implications for Digital Assets" at the GBBC Risk, Compliance & Security conference on June 9th. The intersection of artificial intelligence and digital asset markets raises real questions about how monitoring, detection, and decision-making evolve when both the underlying infrastructure and the tools used to oversee it are changing at once.

On June 10th, Renjie will also present an Industry Demo on Capitol Hill focused on the Digital Asset Risk Management Life Cycle. The session is designed as an informative walkthrough of how risk can be identified, measured, and managed across the full lifecycle of a digital asset, from network and protocol activity through to settlement.

London: June 16

In London, Marianna Angelou, our Head of Analytics, joins the panel "Tokenisation at Scale: From Sandboxes to Settlement Infrastructure" at the GBBC Future of Finance conference on June 16th, alongside representatives from Euroclear, Calastone, Moody's and Norton Rose Fulbright. The panel addresses one of the central operational questions of this market phase: what it takes to move tokenization into production settlement infrastructure that institutions can rely on.

The Throughline

The theme connecting both events is the same one we have been hearing clearly at several roundtables, including the GBBC-Oliver Wyman Capital Markets Risk Mitigation Framework Roundtables in New York and Miami, and the one we recently hosted at the Harvard Club of New York with Risk.net and Chartis Research. The risk categories for digital assets carry over from traditional finance in many respects. The controls required to manage them call for new capabilities.

Real-time settlement, 24/7 operations, smart contract lifecycle management, and hybrid on-chain and off-chain environments require capabilities that existing institutional frameworks were not built to provide. Point-in-time controls cannot supervise systems that never stop running. Risk management for these markets must be continuous, real-time, and infrastructure-aware.

We believe blockchain networks should increasingly be treated as critical financial infrastructure within institutional operational risk frameworks. As banks, asset managers, payment firms, and market infrastructure providers adopt tokenized rails, the ability to monitor network-level, protocol-level, and asset-level risks becomes essential to market integrity, investor protection, and safe adoption.

The institutions moving fastest are the ones treating this as an infrastructure problem. They are building operational risk capabilities at the same pace as they build new products. That infrastructure layer is what we are building at Metrika.

Connect With Us

If you will be in Washington D.C. or London over the coming weeks, we would welcome the conversation. Come find us at either event.