Asset managers, corporate treasurers, custodians, auditors, and lawyers each hold one piece of the institutional Bitcoin question. The Bitcoin Roundtable puts them at one neutral table — alongside the builders of the protocol itself — so adoption concepts are tested against every constraint before anyone commits.
An asset manager's mandate, a treasurer's investment policy, and a custodian's licensing define what Bitcoin exposure is even possible. The table starts from those written constraints, not from enthusiasm, so ideas stay inside what institutions can genuinely act on.
Custody models, key management, accounting treatment, audit evidence, and counterparty risk are operational questions before they are strategic ones. Practitioners who have implemented them — and auditors who test them — describe what worked and what did not.
Liquidity sourcing, settlement finality, reporting cadence, and board-level sign-off all behave differently at institutional size. Members stress-test adoption concepts against those realities before anyone builds on a fragile assumption.
Institutional work moves through the Idea Board: a seed is discussed openly across industries, contributors volunteer to develop it, and mature concepts become practical use-case briefs that an institution's own teams can evaluate.
Institutional adoption fails when any one seat is missing. These are the disciplines a serious Bitcoin adoption discussion draws on at the Roundtable.
Mandates, liquidity, portfolio construction, and what fiduciary duty permits.
Balance-sheet policy, risk appetite, and board communication around Bitcoin.
Key management models, insurance, and operational controls that survive audit.
Measurement, disclosure, and the evidence trail institutions must produce.
Contract structures, regulatory perimeter, and dispute resolution.
Protocol and Lightning capability — what infrastructure can actually deliver.
A member seeds an adoption concept on the Idea Board — a custody model, a treasury framework, a product gap.
Members from other industries stress-test it in open discussion and volunteer to help develop it into a use-case brief.
Work that becomes a Roundtable position moves to governance, where decisions are made by consent: adopted when no member raises an unresolved, reasoned objection.
The Roundtable is neutral ground. It does not advocate for any firm's product or position, and nothing here is investment, legal, or tax advice.
Asset managers, treasurers, custodians, and their advisors are welcome at the table — wherever in the world you work from.