The Future of Finance Research Institute paper, Priorities, Projects and Barriers to the Growth of the Digital Asset Markets, provides a snapshot of the attitudes of a dozen different types of institution as the crypto-currency and Decentralised Finance (DeFi) markets entered their first bear market for four years during the Winter and Spring of 2021-22.

Based on a poll of buy- and sell-side institutions, market infrastructures, technology vendors and consultants drawn from both the crypto-finance industry and the traditional financial services industry, the paper documents the adoption of a blockchain-based approach to the future that is proving highly resilient to the downturn