Traditional capital markets and decentralized finance are converging around digital assets. That shift needs access, liquidity, and capital. DeFi Technologies (NASDAQ: $DEFT) operates across all three. It is a picks-and-shovels platform for institutional digital asset markets, built around two operating subsidiaries, Valour and Stillman Digital, supported by Alpha and Venture. Valour gives investors access to more than 100 digital asset Exchange Traded Products, bought and sold like a stock through traditional banks and brokers. Stillman Digital powers institutional liquidity and execution, with more than $50B in client volume.

🇪🇸 The DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series is coming to Spain for an invite-only VIP session during @mmerge_io Madrid. 🔎 The agenda features the closing panel, “Opening Access to Digital Assets: Products, Platforms and Investor Demand,” alongside a keynote and three Asset Deep Dives on the infrastructure behind each asset, how adoption is progressing, and the regulated routes to exposure. 🎙️ About the panel Institutional and private capital now reaches digital assets through exchange-traded products, venture funds, indices, and bank platforms that fit into existing custody and trading relationships. Each route solves a different problem and carries different constraints. This panel puts the product side and the distribution side in the same room. It looks at what is being built, what investors are asking for, and where demand and available structures still do not match. 🎤 Panelists: 🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal 🔹 @Forson, President, DeFi Technologies & Chief Growth Officer,@ValourFunds 🔹 Guillermo Barco Muñoz, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets, @Swissquote 🔹 Jacob Lindberg, Chief Revenue Officer, @ValourFunds 🔹 Soledad Contreras, Head of Partnerships, @CoinDesk 🤝 The session is built for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, and capital allocators. It covers what assessment, selection, and regulated exchange-listed exposure look like inside a diversified portfolio. 📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during MERGE 🗓️ 28 October 2026 If you are an asset manager, institutional investor, or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 [email protected] @DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman

🇪🇸 The @DeFiTechGlobal Capital Markets Series arrives in Spain, as a VIP session during MERGE Madrid. Alongside the keynote and panel discussions the agenda includes three Asset Deep Dives for those who want to understand the infrastructure behind each asset, how adoption is progressing, and the regulated routes to exposure. 🔎 🔹 Bitcoin: Institutional Adoption & Regulated Access Bitcoin’s evolution into an institutional asset class, the regulatory frameworks that enable access, and the role of physically-backed staking ETPs in portfolio construction. 🎤 Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance 🔹 Ethereum: Capital Markets Infrastructure Ethereum as the foundation for tokenized assets and institutional use cases, and staking yield as an investment strategy. 🎤 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute 🔹 Optimism: Technical Requirements for Institutional Adoption What does it actually take to bring institutions onchain? Optimism shares the protocol-level requirements, from compliance controls and MEV protection to atomic interoperability, privacy and horizontal scaling, that brought Coinbse, Kraken, Uniswap, OKX, Bitpanda, Upbit and WhiteBIT to build their chain on Optimism. 🎤 Carlos Arena, Vice President of Sales, Optimism 🤝 The session is built for asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers and capital allocators, and covers what assessment, selection and regulated exchange-listed exposure look like inside a diversified portfolio. 📍 Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, during MERGE 🗓️ 28 October 2026 If you are an asset manager, institutional investor or allocator and would like to attend, reach out to 📩 [email protected] @DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman

The final session at the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series London asked why indices matter now for digital assets. @lornah111, Partner at @PartnersPenrose, moderated a conversation with: 🔹 Andrea Disarò, @DeFiTechGlobal 🔹 @Forson, DeFi Technologies 🔹 Fiona Boal, Managing Director & Global Head of Equities at @SPDJIndices Fiona set the scale. Around $200B sits in regulated crypto ETFs and ETPs, compared with trillions benchmarked to the S&P 500. Digital asset indexing is still early. 💡 What traditional indexing brings to digital assets: 🔹 A clear index objective: market cap weighted, single exposure, or thematic 🔹 Strong governance and a rules-based methodology 🔹 Investability: a coin trending on X may not qualify if investors can't access it The panel also covered the hard problems. 24/7 markets have no daily close, an index can't be restated after the fact, and price transparency and custody remain top concerns. On implementation, the DVIO approach uses a diversified 50-asset index built on regulated wrappers. It gives institutions a rules-based way to allocate 1–3% of a portfolio without picking individual tokens. Thank you to Fiona, Lorna and @PartnersPenrose and @SPGlobal for a sharp discussion. @ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman

🇬🇧 Watch the highlights from the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series at Canada House in London. 🏛️ The session brought together traditional financial players, digital asset experts, and regulators to examine how digital assets fit within a diversified portfolio and what regulated, exchange-listed exposure looks like in practice. Digital assets are becoming part of the infrastructure of modern finance, and institutional adoption is entering a new phase. The central question in the room was how to bring digital assets into the portfolios of traditional investors in a way they feel safe using. 📊 The roundtable explored what DeFi infrastructure needs to be transparent, reliable, and liquid, and how the combination of traditional finance and DeFi is shaping the future of capital markets. The discussion also covered portfolio valuation methodologies, the role of crypto indexes in portfolio construction, and how ETPs give investors a professional, regulated way to access this asset class while preserving the operational frameworks institutions rely on. 🎤 We thank our speakers for their contributions: 🔹 @Forson, President of DeFi Technologies and Chief Growth Officer of Valour 🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis at @DeFiTechGlobal 🔹 Fiona Boal, Managing Director & Global Head of Equities at @SPDJIndices 🔹 @juan_i_ibanez. Executive Director at the @MiCA_Alliance 🔹 @LynnMaxwell123, Head, Strategic Client Engagement at @SPGlobal 🔹 @lornah111, Partner at @PartnersPenrose 🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, CEO of @BlackVogel_ 🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director of @EuEthInstitute 🤝 A sincere thank you to our partners, S&P Global, Penrose Partners, the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, @BlackVogel_, @OMFIF, and @CanadaHouse, for making this event possible. Thank you also to the allocators who joined us and shared their interest in our products. 📩 For participation and partnership opportunities at upcoming editions, please contact [email protected]. 🎥 Watch the video 👇 @DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman

What if a crypto fund could decide which assets to hold, when to invest and how much to commit, all by algorithm? That's the idea behind Smart Crypto Fund SP, launched by @ValourFunds and managed by Neuronomics AG, a FINMA-authorised Swiss portfolio manager. Crypto has offered strong growth, but holding it all the time has also meant deep drawdowns. Smart Crypto Fund SP takes a different approach. It is a fully algorithmic, AI-based fund that seeks to participate selectively in market opportunities and reduce exposure when conditions become less attractive. It wasn't built overnight. Neuronomics was founded in Switzerland in 2015 and has run a live crypto strategy since July 2020, through rising, falling and sideways markets. Its process combines years of research in neuroscience, AI and markets, with a team rooted at the University of Zurich, EPFL and ETH Zurich. Valour leads structuring, governance, investor relationships and distribution. Neuronomics leads research, models, trading and risk management. Smart Crypto Fund SP sits within Valour Funds SPC in the Cayman Islands. For DeFi Technologies, it adds an actively managed strategy alongside Valour's ETP business and opens the door to investors who may not consider passive crypto products. $DEFT

Digital assets are now mainstream financial infrastructure. With Valour ETPs and the DeFi Technologies DVIO Index, portfolio managers can make intelligent allocation decisions. @Forson, President of DeFi Technologies, laid out why in his keynote at the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series London: Bridging Traditional Capital Markets with Digital Assets. His comparison: the internet became part of every company in every industry, and "Internet company" faded as a category. Digital assets are following the same path. 🔹 Blockchain technology is proven, and its use cases across industry and finance are clear 🔹 Digital assets are the building blocks of a new financial infrastructure with transparency, speed, and programmability built in 🔹 That infrastructure makes the full range of capital market instruments available to anyone, anywhere 🔹 Allocators now assess digital assets as infrastructure with real utility and explainable expected returns Whether the conversation starts with AI, space, robotics, neuroscience, or finance, digital assets play a role, utility tokens in particular. 📊 Andrew's view is that this changes portfolio construction. Individual and institutional portfolios need exposure to the units that power AI tokens, secure communication between robotic devices, represent a fast-growing share of tokenised capital market instruments, and secure the settlement rails that stablecoins run on. Index providers such as @SPGlobal have built digital asset indices for capital allocators. The DVIO Index, explored in depth during the London edition, tracks both price performance and regulated capital flows across digital assets. Efficiency wins out. The line between digital and traditional assets will blur, and investors need access through regulated products. That's the bridge @DeFiTechGlobal and @ValourFunds are building. 🔗 Explore the DVIO Index: lnkd.in/dMu8dDEd @ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman

Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director at @MiCA_Alliance, opened the asset deep dives at the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series London with a session on Bitcoin: Institutional Adoption & Regulated Access. His case: Bitcoin has matured into an institutional asset. It's bigger, more liquid and less volatile than in its early years. The service providers around it have also made it much easier to understand. 📊 Why institutions allocate: 🔹 Asymmetric returns: a 1% allocation can lose at most 1%, with room to grow several times over 🔹 A non-sovereign monetary asset that is nobody's debt, similar to gold 🔹 A fixed supply of 21 million units as a long-term hedge against monetary expansion 🔹 Around half of the crypto market, and its most liquid asset Direct exposure still brings friction: node setup, institutional-grade custody, unfamiliar workflows, tax and client reporting, and no native yield. Juan showed how MiCA in the EU, the UK's opening of retail access to crypto ETPs, and asset-backed ETPs address each one. Thank you to Juan for speaking on this edition. 💡 1Valour Bitcoin Physical Staking (1VBS) is listed on the @LSEplc. 🔗 lnkd.in/eeZ3vsvT @ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman

Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis at @DeFiTechGlobal, presented the DEFT Valour Investment Opportunity (DVIO) Index at the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series in London. 📊 DVIO Index 🔹 Scope: Top 50 assets by AUM across the @ValourFunds platform 🔹 Weighting: AUM-based, adjusted for capital flows 🔹 Methodology: Rules-based, automated and recalculated weekly As the digital asset market develops, market data is increasingly complemented by tools that help put it into context. Andrea also presented the quantitative and qualitative layer built around the index: weekly reports, flow–price divergence signals, a Bitcoin-versus-altcoin rotation barometer, and a watchlist monitoring assets below the index threshold for early flow signals. He subsequently joined the panel “Why indices matter now for digital assets”, discussing the development of indexing in digital assets relative to traditional markets, the role of diversification in portfolio allocation, and how indices can support portfolio construction. 💡 Andrea highlighted the relatively early stage of the digital asset indexing ecosystem, noting that at the end of 2025, global crypto ETPs represented approximately 1% of the assets indexed to the S&P 500 alone. In traditional markets, indices underpin ETFs, derivatives, structured products and institutional benchmarks, while these applications are still developing across digital assets. 🔗 Explore the DVIO Index → defi.tech/indices/overview @ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman

🇬🇧 The DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series took place today in London. The session brought together leaders from traditional finance and digital assets to examine how digital assets fit within a diversified portfolio and what regulated, exchange-listed exposure looks like in practice. We thank our speakers for their contributions: 🔹 @Forson, President of @DeFiTechGlobal and Chief Growth Officer of @ValourFunds 🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis at @DeFiTechGlobal 🔹 Fiona Boal, Managing Director & Global Head of Equities at @SPDJIndices 🔹 Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director at the @MiCA_Alliance 🔹 Lynn Maxwell, Head, Strategic Client Engagement at @SPGlobal 🔹 Lorna Hutchman, Partner at @PartnersPenrose 🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, CEO of @BlackVogel_ 🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, CEO of @EuEthInstitute We also thank our partners, the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, @SPGlobal, @BlackVogel_, @OMFIF, and @PartnersPenrose for their support. For participation and partnership opportunities at upcoming editions, please contact [email protected]. @DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman

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The DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series returns to London for its 2.0 edition. 🇬🇧 If you allocate capital for a living, this session is built for you. Asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, and capital allocators will spend the day on one question: how digital assets fit into a modern, diversified portfolio, and what regulated, exchange-listed exposure actually looks like in practice. Expect deep dives designed for professional investors, covering the technological and financial case for digital assets, the mechanics of crypto indices, and clear pathways to safe, secure, regulated exposure through traditional brokerages and exchanges. 🎤 Speakers and industry experts joining the day: 🔹 @Forson, President, @DeFiTechGlobal & Chief Growth Officer, @ValourFunds, @DeFiTechGlobal 🔹 Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis, @DeFiTechGlobal 🔹 Fiona Boal, Managing Director & Global Head of Equities, @SPGlobal, @SPDJIndices 🔹 Juan Ignacio Ibañez, Executive Director, @MiCA_Alliance 🔹 Lynn Maxwell, Head, Strategic Client Engagement, @SPGlobal 🔹 Lorna Hutchman, Partner, @PenrosePartners 🔹 Mariana de la Roche Wills, CEO, @BlackVogel_ 🔹 @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director, @EuEthInstitute 🤝 Coordinated in partnership with the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce and @SPGlobal, with support from @BlackVogel_, @OMFIF, and @PartnersPenrose. Spots are limited to asset managers, institutional investors, and allocators. Reach out for details at [email protected] @DeFiTechGlobal | @ValourFunds | @DigitalStillman

Continuing our speaker introductions for the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series, London 2.0 edition: Andrea Disarò, Principal, Structured Products & Quantitative Analysis at @DeFiTechGlobal. 📊 Andrea's work spans structured products and quantitative analysis across digital assets, including the DVIO Index and the data behind how capital moves through regulated, institutional rails, a theme he has carried across this series since its first London edition. If you're an asset manager, institutional investor, or allocator and want to attend, reach out to [email protected]. ETP details, ISINs, and product links are in the comments. 🤝 The event is coordinated in partnership with the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, and @SPGlobal. The session also has the support of @BlackVogel_, @OMFIF and @PartnersPenrose. @ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman

Continuing our speaker introductions for the DeFi Technologies Capital Markets Series, London 2.0 edition: @MarinaMarkezic, Executive Director of the @EuEthInstitute. 📊 The European Ethereum Institute positions Ethereum as a public infrastructure layer for Europe's digital future, while Marina's work also focuses on the European Crypto Initiative, a policy organisation focused on crypto and blockchain regulation in the European Union. If you're an asset manager, institutional investor, or allocator and want to attend, reach out to [email protected]. ETP details, ISINs, and product links are in the comments. 🤝 The event is coordinated in partnership with the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, and @SPGlobal. The session also has the support of @BlackVogel_, @OMFIF and @PartnersPenrose. @ValourFunds | @DeFiTechGlobal | @DigitalStillman | @EuEthInstitute