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We are pleased to announce that Alex Copestake from the International Monetary Fund will be joining us to discuss "Stablecoins and the Future of Payments: Evidence from Financial Markets."

🌊 How to scale tokenized RWAs from today’s ~$25B into the trillion-dollar market institutions are targeting? 🏦 The conversation is shifting beyond issuance and tokenization. The real challenge for tokenized real world assets (RWAs) is now: → liquidity → lending markets → secondary trading → risk frameworks → compliance → DeFi market structure This Thursday I’ll be speaking at the University of Zurich alongside an amazing group of builders pushing tokenized finance from experimentation toward real infrastructure. Really excited to share the stage with: • Mats Olsen, co-founder and CTO, Dune • Graham Nelson, head of DeFi, Centrifuge 📍 University of Zurich 📅 Thursday, May 21 ⏰ 17:00–19:00 + apéro/networking afterward Kudos to the organizers DeFiAM Smart Contracts Lab UZH Blockchain Center Whether you work in tokenization, DeFi, banking, stablecoins, RWAs, or digital asset infrastructure, this should be a very interesting discussion. Would be great to see you there!

🎓 Join me tomorrow at this 45 minutes free webinar on DeFi and RWAs → how liquidity actually forms in DeFi, how vaults and curators manage risk, and what RWA secondary liquidity actually requires Tomorrow I will be running a 45-minute live session for institutions on the DeFi mechanics: Market Liquidity · AMMs · Future of Tokenisation · Lending Vaults 📊 The agenda - How liquidity is created and managed on-chain - The role of Automated Market Makers (AMMs) - and where their pricing model differs from a traditional order book - Tokenized assets scaling beyond issuance - what secondary-market liquidity for RWAs (real-world assets) actually requires - Lending vaults driving capital efficiency and risk management - vault structure, isolation, parameter design 🏦 The format 45 minutes. Step-by-step. Built for banks, asset managers, fintechs, and institutional desks evaluating DeFi infrastructure 📅 Thursday, 14 May 2026 🕛 12pm UK · 3pm Abu Dhabi · 7pm SG 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e9rCdaKu For those at institutions evaluating tokenization, on-chain credit, lending vaults, or market infrastructure, this is the substance most explainers skip. 👉 Bring questions. The session is built to answer them, step by step CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship Huy NGUYEN TRIEU TRAM ANH NGUYEN Chau-Earn Tan - 陈朝恩 CFTE Middle East CFTE Asia CFTE Community News UZH Blockchain Center

Speaker announcement 🎤 Mats Olsen will be speaking at the next DeFi AM event on the 21st May at University of Zurich. Covering the topic: The state of RWAs: a look at the data.

Speaker announcement Graham Nelson will be speaking at the next DeFi AM event.

🔥 When institutional capital enters DeFi, it doesn't allocate protocol by protocol. It allocates to vaults 🏦 Institutions don’t want to manage dozens of lending markets, liquidity pools, and risk parameters themselves. They need curators, risk frameworks, and allocation layers that manage capital across protocols. This is why curated vaults are emerging as one of the most important primitives in DeFi today. They decide: - where liquidity flows - which assets are acceptable collateral - how risk is managed - how yield is generated across protocols In other words, vaults may become the portfolio managers of on-chain finance. Next week we’ll explore exactly this topic the University of Zurich together with DeFiAM, Smart Contracts Lab, and the UZH Blockchain Center. 🎤 I’ll open the evening with a short talk: “Vaults in DeFi: Institutional Capital Allocation Layer - or Product Distribution Engine?” We’ll then hear perspectives from builders, curators, and researchers, including: 🔹 Mark from Kamino Finance - institutional vault management 🔹 Hilmar, Founder of Arrakis - liquidity automation 🔹 Nicolas from Clearstar Labs AG - one of the leading Morpho vault curators We’ll also see student projects exploring AI agents for automated vault management 📅 March 17 🕔 17:00 – 19:00 📍 University of Zurich – City Campus 🥂 Apero & networking afterwards If you’re interested in institutional DeFi, vault strategies, RWAs, or programmable liquidity, it will be a great evening to exchange ideas. Would be great to see some of you there 🔗 Register now!

The curated vault era is upon us, and the key question is whether institutional capital has the necessary infrastructure to engage with it. To explore this, we are hosting an evening in Zürich with practitioners, researchers, and builders who are actively involved in this space. -- Beyond the Yield: The Curated Vault Era -- 🗓️ March 17, 2026 · 17:00 📍 University of Zurich, Zürich 🤝 DeFiAM × Smart Contracts Lab × UZH Blockchain Center What to expect: • 🏦 Institutional DeFi & vault allocation strategies • 🎓 Research projects on automated vault management • 🥂 Apero & networking Seats are limited and designed for serious practitioners. Join us for a networking apero starting at 19:00. 🎟️ Grab your spot: [link in comments]

Excited to share our next Smart Contracts Lab (SCL) co-hosted event at UZH 🎓⚡ On 3 December, 17:00–19:00 (Apero after) we’re teaming up with DeFiAM and the UZH Blockchain Center to explore DeFAI – AI agents in DeFi: • Student pitches on prediction markets, Uniswap v3 liquidity, and perp trading • Marcin Michalski (Matter Labs, ex-Google Brain) – “Earn money in DeFi, make no mistakes” • David Minarch (Valory, Olas) – “How Olas helps you self-custody your AI agents” 📍 UZH City Campus, KOL-F-117 👉 Sign up via Eventbrite #DeFi #AI #DeFAI #UZH #SmartContractsLab

🎙️ Explore DeFAI: where AI agents meet decentralized finance to automate trading, optimize yields, and make DeFi accessible to all. This exclusive occasion brings together industry leaders and reserchers to dive into the transformative world of ⛓️💥 blockchain, 🧩 tokenization, and digital assets, focusing on *** AI aplications in decentralized finance***. #DeFiAM #DeFAI #AI #DecentralizedFinance