The industry has yet to figure out how to adequately protect these assets from hackers, adding that “we know that most attacks are related to human error and can be facilitated by someone on the inside”; for retail, there may be a greater flow of change towards decentralized exchanges as retail investors feel they have more control that way; For the institutional community, it is time to go back to its roots and apply the same rules that govern settlement in the traditional market infrastructure space, including post-trade settlements and with smart contracts replacing central counterparty clearing.