About

The Digital Assets Awards exist to honour and celebrate the world’s pre-eminent and ground breaking digital asset participants and market infrastructure providers that are transforming the digital assets ecosystem. Moreover, the Digital Banker Awards are accolades of excellence and distinction, attributed to outstanding players; and provides unbiased and objective benchmarks for the global industry.

Importantly, the Digital Assets Awards is the only world-wide assessment program dedicated to recognising excellence in the use of digital assets by market participants. These awards celebrate the most cutting-edge innovation and technologies that have materially impacted and disrupted traditional asset classes and investment frameworks, while dramatically driving innovation efforts within the game-changing paradigm of decentralised finance, blockchain and Web3.

Why nominate?

The world of digital assets was conceptualised with the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, that powered via a decentralised blockchain captured the imagination of users as an alternate digitally-based currency. It proved to be an inflection point in the ongoing evolution of the international financial and monetary system and since then market participants utilising both permissionless and permissioned blockchain networks began to offer to a range of different types of digital assets including crypto, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

These “virtual records of value” shared securely across a cryptographic ledger has generated an entirely new set of market infrastructures and use-cases as experimentation by various players has unlocked efficiencies, freed trapped liquidity and facilitated the democratisation of finance. Indeed, in 2024 there has been an increased adoption of crypto-assets as the preferred investment of choice as key crypto-currencies record impressive growth along with continued tokenization of real-world assets that is driving investor appetite.

Given the pace of technological transformation, new regulations and evolving user preferences the size of digital assets transactions has grown exponentially, attracting new players across the value chain while posing as both a serious challenge and opportunity to incumbent market players.

Now, more than ever, it is imperative that traditional players develop exceptional digital asset capabilities through innovative business models and services or otherwise risk being side-lined entirely.

Who can apply?

The Digital Assets Awards 2025 program is open to all participants within the digital assets landscape. We invite nominations from banks, buy-side asset management & fund management companies, digital asset / crypto exchanges & trading platforms, digital / crypto wallets, digital asset custodians, non-bank financial institutions, token issuers, gaming companies and digital asset technology companies & service providers.

If you identify your organisation and/or professionals as industry leaders that are pushing boundaries and pioneering unsurpassed innovation across the universe of digital assets – we welcome you to send in your nominations.

For further information, please contact The Digital Banker awards team at: enq@digitalbankeronline.com

We may request a further interview with the executive managing the program or initiative that is being nominated. The objective of the interview is merely to gain deeper insights, (if needed) for the purposes of judging.

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