Deloitte Announces Digital Assets Award Winners

On Tuesday 25 March 2025, Deloitte Luxembourg revealed the winners of its Digital Assets Awards during its Digital Assets Conference (DAC) which took place at the firm’s premises in Luxembourg-Gasperich.

The event gathered over 200 professionals and key stakeholders in Luxembourg and Europe’s digital asset markets to celebrate pioneers and innovators in the fast-evolving digital assets space. The jury, comprised of industry leaders from ALFI, ABBL, Luxembourg Blockchain Lab, Luxembourg for Finance and Deloitte, selected three winners based on their innovation, visionary leadership and significant contributions to the growth of Luxembourg's digital assets ecosystem.

The award for Initiative of the Year, honouring the most innovative and impactful project in digital assets, was presented to Clearstream’s ICSD, Clearstream Banking Luxembourg (CBL) for their offering of custody services for crypto-assets, which is designed to address the high operational costs and complexities of managing private keys and blockchain operations, providing an integrated end-to-end custody service.

The award for Entity of the Year, which recognises an entity that has played a key role in driving the growth of the digital assets industry in Luxembourg and beyond, offering exceptional support and tools for success, was presented to 6 Monks (6M), an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), for empowering its clients to launch and expand investment funds in the Private Equity, Crypto and Web3 ecosystems within a regulated environment.

The award for Personality of the Year, which celebrates an individual who has made a notable impact in the digital assets space, demonstrating leadership, innovation and influence and fostering growth in this sector, was presented to Emilie Allaert, who has co-authored five influential white papers on market trends and launched Luxembourg Blockchain Week to bridge industry innovation with regulatory frameworks, managed the DLT curriculum at the Digital Learning Hub and founded the consulting firm Digital Minds.

Partner at Deloitte Luxembourg, Laurent Collet, said: "Already in its third year, the conference serves as a prominent meeting point for industry leaders and highlights Luxembourg’s unique strength in boosting digital funds and debt development in Europe and we are proud to be the enablers of this important gathering. At the same time, Deloitte Digital Assets Awards honour individuals and organisations that have made exceptional contributions to the digital assets ecosystem."

Thibault Chollet, Partner at Deloitte Luxembourg, added that "the Digital Assets Awards were designed to acknowledge the tenacity, creativity and brilliance of those advancing Luxembourg's digital financial ecosystem and we are grateful to be able to use our platform to champion the tremendous efforts of these innovators and hope their inspiring journey drives the entire industry to keep pushing boundaries and strive for excellence."

Deloitte Luxembourg also reported that the conference heard contributions from Founder of Manzari Legal, Nadia Manzari, and Director at Deloitte Luxembourg, Kevin Demeyer, which focused on the unique opportunities provided by Luxembourg’s legal framework under the Blockchain Laws IV, adopted in December 2024.

There was also a panel discussion which included Vice President of International Policy at Coinbase, Tom Duff Gordon, Vice President of Network Management of Clearstream, Kristjan Coklc, Head of Authorisation Division at CSSF, Nicolas Baeyens, and Managing Director at Circle France, Coralie Billmann. The panel was moderated by Senior Manager at Deloitte Luxembourg, Giulia Pescatore, and provided insights into the deployment of the new European Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. It also discussed emerging business opportunities surrounding services such as trading and custody of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.

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