Seth Ginns is a Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Investments at CoinFund, and a key member of the Venture Investment Committee. He has 20 years of Wall Street experience and has been deeply involved in the crypto community since his angel investment in Coinbase in 2012. He is also an angel in Starkware, Chainalysis, participated in the Ethereum ICO in 2014, and loves traveling globally to developer events as a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the market.
Prior to CoinFund, Seth invested in public growth equities over 18 years at Jennison Associates. He holds a BA in Mathematics and South Asia Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the School of Arts and Sciences and served as an Overseer at the School of Nursing and Co-Chair of the Innovation Committee.
Roundtable Room 3 (Level 3)
Decoding Digital Assets and Payments
This roundtable reflects Elevandi’s commitment to developing the infrastructure to support the adoption of new technologies.
Permissionless blockchains presents multiple opportunities for the pooling of global liquidity. The inherent traceability of all records offer significant cybersecurity enhancements over traditional systems by prevent false transactions. Moreover, continuously verifiable point-in-time snapshots of the distributed ledger offers added resilience to ensure business continuity.
In this industry-focused roundtable operating under the theme of Decoding Digital Assets and Payments, we invite private sector discussants to consider the pathways to implementation of permissionless blockchains by laying down all cards on the table. Speakers are invited to actively challenge the supposed benefits of permissionless blockchains with their inputs, discuss trade-offs, and address the perceived risks surrounding the technology.
This session seeks to lay the groundwork for later dialogues on the applications of permissionless blockchain in the form of structured products and collateral settlements.
This is one of two discussions surrounding permissionless/public blockchains in the financial services at the Insights Forum. Attendees who wish to familiarise themselves with the topic may refer to the reference materials below.
- Public blockchain as a transfer infrastructure in regulated sectors
- Plenary Address by Ravi Menon: State of Global Finance & Technology | JFF 2024