Crypto India Magazine Releases NARRATIVE Issue 2, Tracking Crypto’s Shift Into Institutional Finance

• Crypto India Magazine (CIM) released the second issue of NARRATIVE, titled “The Institutional Era of Crypto,” on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
• Marc Liew, Head of APAC at Jito Foundation, fronts the cover story, which covers regulation across Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea, institutional custody, onchain yield, and Jito’s self-custodial trading platform JTX.
• The issue carries features with DogeOS, BridgePort, BNP Paribas, Trezor, and Talos, three HER Story profiles, and four contributor essays on institutional DeFi, Bitcoin ETFs, enterprise security, and quantum risk.

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Crypto India Magazine (CIM) has released the second issue of its NARRATIVE magazine, titled “The Institutional Era of Crypto“, on Saturday, August 15, 2026, examining how digital assets are moving deeper into mainstream financial markets and how the infrastructure around them is changing to accommodate institutional participation.

The new issue brings together interviews, features, profiles, and contributor essays focused on institutional custody, regulation, trading infrastructure, DeFi, self-custody, onchain markets, and the broader integration of crypto into traditional finance. With NARRATIVE, the crypto magazine is positioning its coverage around the people and infrastructure shaping the next phase of the digital asset industry.

Marc Liew, Head of APAC at Jito Foundation, fronts the cover story, which covers regulatory movement across Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea, institutional custody, onchain yield, and JTX, the self-custodial trading platform Jito made available in July 2026.

“In five years, I do not think we will be talking about TradFi and DeFi as separate worlds. We will just be talking about finance, with more of it running on better rails,” Liew said in the issue.

Inside NARRATIVE Issue 2

The feature section focuses on companies, infrastructure providers, and individuals building for the next stage of institutional crypto adoption.

Jordan Jefferson, founder of DogeOS, makes the case for Dogecoin as an institutional asset, while Zane Suren, Chief Revenue Officer at BridgePort, argues that institutional adoption will ultimately depend more on financial market infrastructure than on the performance of individual tokens.

Dr. Shobhit Navani, a Senior Manager at BNP Paribas, examines the trust deficit that continues to keep institutional capital at the edge of DeFi. Lucien Bourdon, Bitcoin analyst at Trezor, looks at the role of self-custody as regulated crypto products continue to expand.

The issue also features Samar Sen, SVP and Head of International Markets at Talos, who discusses the infrastructure supporting institutional digital asset trading.

Beyond the institutional finance theme, NARRATIVE reports from Zacatlán de las Manzanas in Puebla, Mexico, where the women-led UNLOCK Universe is working toward establishing the country’s first Bitcoin circular economy in a Pueblo Mágico.

HER Story and Perspectives

HER Story, the CIM section dedicated to women in Web3, carries three profiles in this edition. The section features Leila Salieva, founder of Dubai-based Sombrero Galaxy Agency, Mia P, founder of Unhashed, and ecosystem builder and operator Muskan Kalra.

The Perspectives section closes the issue with four contributor essays covering institutional DeFi, Bitcoin ETFs, enterprise security, and quantum risk.

Ashutosh Dubey, a research scholar at IIM Mumbai, examines the development of institutional DeFi. Rashu Jindel, Sales Director for APAC at Talos, looks at the growth of spot Bitcoin ETFs, noting approximately $60 billion in cumulative net inflows and more than 1.3 million BTC held by US-listed products.

Shreya Berry, VP Marketing at CredShields, argues that DeFi has largely overlooked lessons from two decades of enterprise security, while Subbu Jois, Founder and CEO of Aurigraph DLT Corp, examines the potential quantum threat to digital money.

A Web3 Magazine Expanding Its Editorial Focus

The Institutional Era of Crypto is the second issue of NARRATIVE. CIM launched the magazine earlier this year at Consensus Hong Kong with its first issue, Beyond the Hype, featuring Algorand Foundation CEO Staci Warden.

NARRATIVE is published in both digital and print formats, with physical copies distributed at major global industry events including Consensus, Token2049, and Coinfest Asia. The publication covers the wider Web3 industry while using each issue to examine a specific shift taking place across digital assets and blockchain.

The new issue reflects the broader movement of crypto from an asset class largely associated with retail speculation toward an increasingly institutional financial market, with the focus moving toward custody, compliance, market infrastructure, security, and the practical use of blockchain based financial systems.

“Crypto has had its fair share of praise and criticism. But it is now entering perhaps the most consequential phase of its lifecycle. It is closer than ever to becoming part of everyday finance, not merely as something people trade, but as something they actually use to transact,” said Harshajit Sarmah, founder and editor of Crypto India Magazine.

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Editorial Note: Reported and edited by the Crypto India Magazine editorial team. We use AI tools to assist with research and drafting; every article is reviewed and fact-checked by our editors.

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