DAA Singapore Hosts Digital Assets Summit on Scaling Tokenisation

The Digital Assets Association (DAA) Singapore is hosting its second Digital Assets Summit (DAS2026) on October 6 at SGX Centre. The event expects over 500 attendees, with 40 speakers and 30 industry partners from various sectors.

Senior Minister of State Desmond Tan will be the guest of honour at the summit. Confirmed speakers include Heng Swee Keat, chairman of the National Research Foundation and former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, and Ivan Han, chief risk officer of Singapore Exchange.

The summit's program covers various topics such as tokenised bonds, funds, and real-world assets, stablecoins, and tokenised deposits used in payments, treasury, and foreign exchange. Sessions will also address the changing role of financial intermediaries, cybersecurity, fraud prevention, compliance, and operational resilience, AI in finance, and interoperability and regulatory coordination.

The DAA frames the event around a shift in the industry's questions. 'Two years ago, much of the conversation was about whether tokenised assets would move beyond experimentation,' said Danny Chong, co-chairman of DAA Singapore. He added that today, the question is no longer whether tokenisation will move beyond the sandbox, but how far and how quickly it can scale.