The World Digital Assets Forum 2026 devoted two Nov. 9 sessions in Seoul to tokenized markets, listing speakers from financial firms and blockchain companies to discuss their use and market frameworks.
Herald Media Group, the organizer, called the gathering its first World Digital Assets Forum and set it at The Grand Lotte Seoul. Its published program also covered stablecoins, payments and digital asset treasuries.
The first tokenization panel listed Christie Chan, HSBC’s director for digital assets, corporate and institutional banking; Yongjae Lee, Mirae Asset Securities’ head of digital asset business department; and Gabriel Gareth Foo, Securitize’s DeFi growth lead. Daniel Kim, Tiger Research’s founder and CEO, was listed as moderator.
The second panel focused on frameworks for tokenized markets. Its listed speakers were Ashfaq Shaik, Broadridge’s executive vice president of engineering and digital assets; Niki Ariyasinghe, Chainlink Labs’ vice president for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East; and Justin Kim, Ava Labs’ vice president of international business development. Jongsub Lee, a finance professor at Seoul National University Business School, was listed as moderator.
