CertiK and Forcerta are bringing a full-day workshop to Istanbul next week, aimed squarely at traditional financial institutions and family offices looking to get serious about digital assets. The invitation-only event, titled 'The Institutional Stakes: Security and Compliance in Digital Assets,' runs June 5 from 10 AM to 4 PM TRT at the Hilton Istanbul.
What's on the agenda
The workshop covers the nuts and bolts institutions need to operate in crypto. Sessions dive into Turkey's CASP regulatory framework, the Web3 threat landscape, digital asset custody and key management, stablecoin and RWA security, and institutional incident response. It's a mix of regulatory updates and technical deep dives — the kind of detail that matters when you're managing client funds or building a custody product.
Seats are limited and subject to host approval. Confirmed attendees get boardroom details and the full agenda in advance.
Who's speaking
CertiK is sending a handful of heavy hitters: chief business officer Jason Jiang, senior audit partner Peiyu Wang, and senior security engineers Uzeyir Destan and Turgay Arda Usman. They'll be joined by the Director of TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Blockchain Lab, adding a local research perspective. Media partners Incrypted and BeInCrypto are covering the event.
The timing isn't accidental. Turkey has been tightening its crypto regulatory framework, and institutions are looking for practical guidance on compliance and security. CertiK brings serious credentials — founded in 2017 by Yale and Columbia professors, it's served over 5,000 enterprise clients, secured more than $600 billion in digital assets, and claims to have detected over 180,000 vulnerabilities. Forcerta, headquartered in Istanbul and founded in 2016, specializes in risk management for traditional finance, fintech, and crypto firms. Together they're targeting a gap: the gap between institutional appetite for digital assets and the operational know-how to handle them safely.
The workshop is one data point in a broader shift. More traditional financial players are moving past the 'should we?' question and into 'how do we do this without getting hacked or fined?' Events like this — private, hands-on, regulator-aware — are becoming the norm.
