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Quick Take
  • This pillar focuses on companies that help institutions enter, evaluate, and manage digital asset exposure.
  • The shortlist includes product issuers, asset managers, global banks, and market data platforms.
  • The winners were announced at Proof of Talk in Paris on June 2, 2026.
  • The firms below are listed alphabetically within each category.

What Happened

This pillar focuses on companies that help institutions enter, evaluate, and manage digital asset exposure. The shortlist includes product issuers, asset managers, global banks, and market data platforms. The winners were announced at Proof of Talk in Paris on June 2, 2026.

This category recognizes regulated investment products that give institutions exposure to digital assets. The shortlist covers spot ETFs, multi-asset crypto products, and tokenized funds.

This category recognizes firms managing major dedicated investment vehicles in crypto. It covers venture capital, hedge funds, and tokenized strategies.

Market Context

Best Market Intelligence & Data Platform

This category covers platforms that provide the on-chain, market, and index data institutions use to evaluate and monitor digital asset exposure.

The BeInCrypto Institutional 100 is an annual research program covering 25 categories across six pillars: Capital Markets & Infrastructure, Access to Digital Assets, Tokenization & On-Chain Finance, Enterprise Blockchain, Regulation & Governance, and Retail to Crypto Bridge.

Each category follows one of three scoring tracks, depending on the data profile of the market. Public filings, regulatory registers, audited reports, on-chain data, ETF flow trackers, and nominee disclosure forms were used where available.

Why It Matters

The BeInCrypto Institutional 100 Awards 2026 enters its final stage with the Access to Digital Assets pillar narrowed to 16 shortlisted firms across four categories.

The firms below are listed alphabetically within each category. They are not ranked.

Details

Best Digital Asset Product

Fund Manager of the Year

Leader in Digital Asset Adoption

This category recognizes institutions putting digital assets, tokenized instruments, and blockchain settlement infrastructure into live client service at scale.

About the BeInCrypto Institutional 100

The 2026 evaluation window ran from April 2025 through March 2026.

Shortlists were selected through BeInCrypto’s editorial research methodology and blind scoring by an external panel of institutional digital asset practitioners.

Final blended scores are not published. Inclusion on the shortlist reflects the combined outcome of research and judge review.

Editorial contact: [email protected]

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