Bybit executive Yoyee Wang frames trust as the gating factor for institutional digital asset inflows

The debate over whether global financial institutions should hold digital assets is settling, Bybit executive Yoyee Wang argued at LEAP East 2026 in Dubai on July 13. The sharper question now is what the on-ramp looks like, and Wang's remarks at the conference put regulation, tokenisation, and institutional trust at the center of that answer. Bybit is privately held, with no listed equity.

The shift Wang is describing

Early-adoption skepticism drove the prior cycle. Institutions asked whether digital assets belonged in a portfolio at all. Wang's LEAP East framing positions that phase as closing: the institutions now entering the space are asking about structure, not permission. That shift has commercial consequences for exchanges and custodians that can meet the compliance bar, and for those that cannot.

Tokenisation and regulation as the mechanism

Wang addressed tokenisation alongside regulation and trust. All three feed the same outcome: giving large allocators enough confidence to commit capital. Tokenisation converts real-world assets into on-chain instruments, which widens what can move into digital form. Regulatory clarity then determines which jurisdictions, and which platforms, are positioned to receive institutional flow when it comes.

What to watch

No specific product launch, licensing approval, or formal agreement was attributed to Wang's July 13 remarks in the available release. The next signal will come from Bybit's regulatory filings or from institutional mandates that explicitly reference the kind of trust framework Wang outlined at LEAP East 2026.