Join the official launch of CryptoMondays Houston on August 3, featuring a Yield, Collateral & the Bitcoin panel.
Who should attend: Institutional investors, digital-asset founders, and operators navigating the intersection of traditional finance and digital capital.
Host: Adam Doerr
Adam Doerr is the Founder of Doerr Company and Business Development Advisor at RedSwan Digital Real Estate, where he works on tokenization and digital asset strategy. His background spans wealth management and digital assets including roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Fidelity Investments.
Moderator: Lisa Seim
Lisa has decades of experience trading and selling treasury products across Austria, Germany, and NYC through the 80s and 90s. In 2011, she founded Strategic Exchanges to help financial institutions navigate the post-Dodd Frank regulatory landscape, now working with a consortium of 17+ firms across data, trade surveillance, clearing, legal, and portfolio management.
Panel: Yield, Collateral & the Bitcoin
Adam Doerr (Doerr Company) and Gene Grant III (Co-Founder & CPO, Forge Bancorp) explore emerging concepts in how institutional capital thinks about digital assets, including:
- Why stablecoins currently yield little to nothing
- How the market is evolving toward yield-bearing digital cash instruments Bitcoin’s collateral problem
- Why holders are often forced to sell at scale to access liquidity
- What’s changing that Rethinking liquidity
- What it means when an asset can be borrowed against instead of sold
Gene Grant III is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Forge Bancorp, building an OCC-chartered, FDIC-insured national bank serving both digital-asset and traditional banking customers. Forge Bancorp is positioned to capitalize on a newly favorable regulatory environment for digital-asset banking, including renewed OCC openness to de novo charters and the GENIUS Act’s stablecoin framework. Gene has experience across global banks, capital markets, and fintech.
Agenda
5:30–6:00 PM — Networking
6:00–6:45 PM — Panel: Yield, Collateral & the Bitcoin
6:45–7:00 PM — Q&A
7:00–7:30 PM — Networking / Close
Join us afterward if you’d like to continue the conversation at Second Draught (short walk downstairs at The Ion)
There is plenty of parking in Yellow and Red lots and is free for 3 hours.
*This panel is an educational, conceptual discussion of digital asset market structure, not investment advice or a solicitation of any specific product or offering.
Monday, August 3, 2026
🕔 Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
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