Tokenized Markets Are Creating a New Class of Operational Risk Officers
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Alt text: Operational risk officers managing smart contract, protocol, and infrastructure risk in tokenized markets
Caption: Operational risk officers provide oversight across smart contracts, protocol dependencies, and execution infrastructure in tokenized markets.
Tokenization is changing the mechanics of financial markets: assets become programmable, settlement moves on-chain, and execution depends on smart contracts, relays, and validator sets. These changes are expanding the operational surface that institutions must manage.
As a result, a new role is emerging inside custody, trading, and infrastructure teams — an Operational Risk Officer focused specifically on tokenized market exposure. Keep reading as our digital asset...


