Open Standards for Tokenization: Why Interoperability Matters

Institutional adoption of tokenized assets depends on solving a critical infrastructure challenge: how can digital securities operate across multiple platforms, jurisdictions, and compliance regimes without recreating the vendor lock-in that has long limited legacy systems?

Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and OpenAssets are helping establish this foundational layer through the Open Tokenized Asset Standard (OTAS), a recently approved lab focused on building protocol-agnostic standards for compliant, interoperable digital assets.

In this session, Surendra Kalidindi, CTO of OpenAssets, will start by exploring why open standards matter for institutional digital assets and how open approaches differ from proprietary tokenization platforms.

The session will be followed by a panel moderated by Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust, featuring industry leaders from a global financial institution, a protocol engineering organization, and a provider of cross-chain and onchain data infrastructure. Together, they will discuss what the industry needs most to accelerate adoption, improve interoperability, and support real-world deployment at scale.

Join us to hear directly from industry leaders, learn more about initiatives like OTAS and the goals of the newly launched lab, and explore how institutions and developers can engage with the OTAS Lab, including a 2026 mentorship opportunity through LF Decentralized Trust.

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Speaker: Surendra Kalidindi

Panelists:

• Daniela Barbosa - host and panel moderator 
• Surendra Kalidindi - CTO -OpenAssets
• Ryan Lovell - Director of Capital Markets - Chainlink Labs 
• Mustafa AL Niama - Managing Director - Mysten Labs
• Wee Kee Toh - Executive Director & Head of Business Architecture for Kinexys Digital Payments - J.P. Morgan