Inside the Institutional 100 Ceremony at the Louvre

On June 2nd, the BeInCrypto x Proof of Talk Institutional 100 Awards brought the leading names in institutional digital finance to the Louvre Palace in Paris.

The ceremony took place on the main stage of the Proof of Talk summit, in front of an audience of 2,500 decision-makers, 85% of whom hold C-level, collectively responsible for more than $18 trillion in AUM. The same audience the Institutional 100 was built to recognize.

Hosted by BeInCrypto CEO and Founder, Alena Afanaseva, Global Head of News, Brian McGleenon, and Chief Strategy Officer, Jessica Lloyd, the evening honored the 100 companies and individuals leading the convergence of traditional finance and digital assets in 2026. 

The Night’s Winners

Representatives from Visa, Coinbase, Moody’s Ratings, Franklin Templeton, Chainalysis, Wintermute, and others took the stage to receive their awards in front of an audience of institutional investors, fund managers and industry executives. 

Visa accepts the award for Best Stablecoin Infrastructure

Judge Fabian Dori (CIO, Sygnum Bank) and Alena Afanaseva present Franklin Templeton with the awards for Best Digital Asset Product and Best Tokenization Platform

Kaiko receives the award for Best Market Intelligence and Data Platform

Chainalysis accepts the awards for Best Digital Asset Ratings & Analytics Provider and Best Digital Asset Compliance Program

How the List Was Built

The Institutional 100 is an independent media awards programme built on a single principle: if you made the list, you earned it. Over 500 candidates were screened across 26 categories and six segments through a two-stage evaluation, a quantitative screen using publicly verifiable data followed by independent judge scoring. 

Several of the judges presented the awards in person, including Clem Chambers (Founder, ADVFN), Fabian Dori (CIO, Sygnum Bank), Michael Walsh (Chair, Kraken DA Exchange), Charles Kerrigan (Partner, CMS) and Arnaud Bader (Wintermute). The wider panel brought together Charlie Morris (CEO, ByteTree, formerly HSBC), Iggy Ioppe (CIO, Theo, formerly Credit Suisse), Tal Elyashiv (Founder, Securitize and SPiCE VC) and Dr. Christina Zhang (Co-Chair, UN Task Group on CitiVerse), among others.

Hosts Alena Afanaseva, Brian McGleenon and Jessica Lloyd present the Institutional 100 methodology

Judges Charles Kerrigan (Partner, CMS), Clem Chambers (Founder, ADVFN) and Michael Walsh (Chair, Kraken DA Exchange) at the Institutional 100 ceremony

The Full Institutional 100

The complete list of winners, across capital markets, tokenization, regulation, enterprise blockchain, and retail access to digital assets, is live, alongside the full photo gallery from the evening.

Explore the Institutional 100 2026: https://awards.beincrypto.com/

Congratulations to our winners, and to everyone who’s building the next phase of finance. Thank you to the judges of the BeInCrypto Expert Council, who gave their time and judgment to this year’s list.

The Institutional 100 returns in 2027. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

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