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From AI-driven payments to third parties tokenizing stock, digital assets are quietly testing the limits of board oversight.
Key Points
- Stablecoins enable instant, around-the-clock global payments, offering companies an alternative to slow, costly traditional banking.
- AI agents initiate and settle payments autonomously, bypassing standard approval hierarchies and demanding new board-level oversight.
- Tokenized equity muddies relationships with investors and creates reputational and legal risks that boards should govern proactively.
This AI-generated summary, based on content on this page, was reviewed by NACD editors for accuracy.
Digital assets are no longer a niche industry limited to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets, prediction markets, and perpetual futures have proliferated. Markets, driven by digital assets, are moving to continuous trading, and this is now beginning to impact traditional equities. Finance giants such as BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, and Morgan Stanley are actively onboarding digital assets.
Mainstream adoption is no longer theoretical. To oversee related impacts on public and private companies, boards should be aware of recent changes in US and global legislation. Then, boards should consider digital assets in the context of ...
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Susan Holliday, NACD.DC®, is a director of Hippo Holdings and PensionBee.
Nisa Amoils is an advisory board member of the University of Pennsylvania Venture Lab and Monay Pay and serves on the board of Triangle Digital. Amoils is also founding partner of A100x Ventures, an AI and digital asset fund.
David Crosbie is a board advisor to Monay Pay and former US Securities and Exchange Commission visiting fellow.
