Voices of ADFW: Brett Tejpaul

It was a great milestone for crypto the industry more than anything. I think it's the um establishment of crypto as an alternative asset. I'm Brett Tal. I'm the head of Coinbase Institutional. Coinbase Institutional by its name is the place where uh asset managers, hedge funds, institutions, banks, exchanges, so on and so forth come to activate in crypto.

So we have a the Coinbase Prime platform which is a place where institutions can buy, sell, store, finance, stake, do anything they need for crypto. It was a great milestone for crypto the industry. More than anything, I think it's the um establishment of crypto as an alternative asset. Having the US ETFs achieve that scale and contribute towards uh opening up the pipes to allow capital flow into the space obviously uh had an impact on price. Abu Dhabi finance week for us has been uh super critical for the expansion of Coinbase internationally.

It's a place where we come, we find partners, we have enablements. We just did a uh signing ceremony with a a partner of ours called Chain Link over there in the room where we're bringing uh new disruptive technology to the future of finance here in Abu Dhabi. I think Abu Dhabi has been a leader of the future of finance and they're doing everything they can to promote uh new crypto use cases whether it be investment in things like Bitcoin. coming here regularly is kind of establishing our pipeline of investors that are going to enter the space and it's awesome. So the CIO of Coinbase Asset Management, Marcel, actually lives here in Abu Dhabi and he's helping us expand our our breath and reach and uh finding new ways to get capital invested in the space.