"Crypto Decoded: An Institutional Guide to a Fast-Emerging Market"
Presented by:
Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer
Bitwise Asset Management
Crypto has gotten too big to ignore. What was once a retail-led niche has become an institutional force, with ETFs gathering more than $100 billion in assets and everyone from hedge funds to pensions jumping in. But what is crypto really all about? Why does bitcoin have any value? And how real is all the talk about stablecoins and tokenization? In this special talk, Bitwise Asset Management CIO Matt Hougan provides plain-English descriptions of everything crypto and offers a clear roadmap on where the industry is heading in 2026 and beyond.
Matt Hougan is the Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, a specialist crypto asset manager that manages more than $15 billion across a suite of more than 25 ETFs, index funds, SMAs, and active strategies. Before joining Bitwise in 2018, Hougan was CEO of ETF.com, where he created the first ETF data, ratings, and classification system, and built the world’s largest ETF conference. Hougan’s thoughts on investing have been widely profiled in the media. He is a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business; a columnist for Forbes; and a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable. He is co-author of two publications for the CFA Institute Research Foundation: “A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds,” and “Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency for Investment Professionals.” In addition to his role at Bitwise, Hougan is the co-founder of Future Proof, creator of the world’s largest financial services conference; a board member of QuantumStreet AI, a leading AI-driven investing company; and a strategic advisor to Blockworks, a crypto events and research company. Hougan graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in philosophy.
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