The infrastructure institutions need to tokenize, settle and move money onchain

Language: English. Every bank, asset manager and corporate treasury that wants to issue a tokenized bond, settle a payment in stablecoins or move liquidity between desks ends up asking the same question: on top of what. The real bottleneck for institutional adoption is no longer regulation or appetite, it is infrastructure. Which chains can handle the volumes, which ones meet the compliance and performance bar, and which ones are actually ready to carry regulated money and regulated assets at scale. In this keynote, Optimism shares what institutions are asking for today, what the next generation of onchain infrastructure has to deliver, and what the stack of 2027 looks like for a bank or a corporate that wants to operate here seriously.