Institutional Digital Assets

Operating Models, Controls, and Market Structure
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 979-8-8688-3242-0
Verlag: APRESS L.P.

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

As digital assets move from experimentation toward financial infrastructure, the conversation is shifting. The question is no longer simply whether stablecoins, tokenization, and other digital asset models offer something new. It is whether they can operate within the legal, regulatory, governance, and control requirements of institutional finance.

This book provides a practical framework for understanding digital assets through the lens of institutions rather than technology alone. Instead of examining custody, settlement, stablecoins, tokenization, compliance, and market structure as separate topics, it shows how these components interact to determine whether a digital asset model can function in practice. Readers will gain a clear understanding of how legal rights, operational controls, liquidity, cash movement, governance, and risk management come together to support institutional use.

Drawing on the issues facing banks, custodians, exchanges, payment networks, fintechs, and infrastructure providers, the book explores the institutional foundations of digital assets. It explains why promising use cases do not always develop into viable operating or business models and why technical capability alone is rarely enough. Through a detailed examination of market structure, operating models, settlement infrastructure, tokenized assets, and onchain cash, it provides the context needed to evaluate what can realistically scale.

Whether assessing stablecoins for payments and treasury operations, evaluating tokenized real-world assets, or designing digital asset services within regulated environments, readers will learn how institutions approach decision-making across legal, compliance, operational, and commercial dimensions. The result is a grounded view of a market in which institutional progress depends increasingly on infrastructure rather than product narratives alone.

What You Will Learn

• Understand how custody, controls, settlement, cash movement, and market structure shape institutional digital asset models.

• Evaluate stablecoins, tokenized assets, and digital asset workflows through their legal, operational, regulatory, and commercial requirements.

• Identify the difference between a promising use case and a model that can be governed, repeated, and used within an institution.

Who This Book is For

This book is intended for professionals working across financial services, fintech, market infrastructure, and digital assets, including those in strategy, product management, legal, risk, compliance, custody, treasury, operations, payments, and investment research.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Onur, Orcun

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.- Chapter 1: From Hype to Institutional Reality.- Chapter 2: How Institutions Read Digital Assets.- Chapter 3: Market Structure Before Product Stories.- Chapter 4: Custody, Control, and the Institutional Activity Perimeter.- Chapter 5: Settlement and Liquidity Infrastructure.- Chapter 6: Stablecoins and Onchain Cash.- Chapter 7: Tokenization and Real-World Assets.- Chapter 8: Regulation, Compliance, and Legal Clarity.- Chapter 9: Operating Models, Governance, and Risk Boundaries.- Chapter 10: What Can Scale: The Institutional Digital Asset Stack.

Über Autor(innen)

Orcun Onur is a digital asset strategist, advisor, and founder of CryptoWisely.io. With more than 20 years of professional experience, primarily in marketing and market development, his career has included financial services, banking, technology, digital assets, and other sectors.

For the past eight years, his work has focused on digital asset markets. He advises companies and projects on digital asset infrastructure, operating model design, market entry, go-to-market strategy, and institutional adoption. His areas of work include stablecoins, tokenization, custody, and market infrastructure.

Orcun regularly publishes analysis and commentary on digital assets, financial infrastructure, and the role of digital asset technologies in regulated markets. His work examines how institutions assess digital asset models, where responsibility and control sit, and what is required for those models to work in practice.