Hybrid Finance: Why It Matters for Investors

Hybrid finance describes the convergence of traditional financial infrastructure with blockchain-based systems. It is not a replacement of one by the other. It is the integration of both: regulated institutions adopting on-chain settlement, tokenised assets flowing through decentralised protocols, and stablecoins bridging fiat and crypto economies. CoinShares frames hybrid finance through three pillars: infrastructure and settlement layers (the blockchains themselves), tokenised real-world assets (RWAs movi ...