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Barry Silbert

Founder & CEO, Digital Currency Group

Search every verified Barry Silbert interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, appeared on the Level Up podcast in June 2026, recorded live at Medici LA 26. During the conversation, Silbert discussed the future of tokenization, stating his view that "all investable assets will be ownership will be recorded on a blockchain at some point in the future" and that assets will trade 24/7 on a global, low-friction playing field. He also commented on the current state of institutional investment, saying that wealth managers are "only looking at Bitcoin right now" and that "none of them are looking at anything below Ethereum at this point." Silbert predicted a "title wave of capital" flowing into the asset class but noted that projects may have a "couple years of opportunity to innovate" before facing pushback from stakeholders opposed to their success. Silbert also addressed the trend of private companies delaying public listings, stating that "the most exciting, fastest growing, most valuable private companies in the world are not going public until they're trillion dollars in value," which he described as "terrible for US markets and terrible for investors." He reflected on DCG's long-term investment approach, citing the firm's 2017 investment in Zcash as an example of a bet that "looked wrong for 9 years" but later appeared prescient. Silbert characterized DCG as a private company with permanent capital that "gets to try to predict the future and allocate capital and resources to try to get us there faster."

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“I think that the most exciting, fastest growing, most valuable private companies in the world are not going public until they're trillion dollars in value. That's terrible for US markets and terrible for investors.”

“I think that there is from a US perspective, I think there's a couple years of um opportunity for projects to innovate and attempt to achieve mark product market fit before we start to see the the the push back um uh and the attacks from you know what who who whatever is kind of the stakeholder group that doesn't want to see these things be successful.”

“I think there's a title wave of capital that's about to flow into the asset class. But those those asset managers the or the um the wealth managers they're only looking at Bitcoin right now. Some of them are thinking about Ethereum. None of them are looking at anything below Ethereum at this point.”

“I think all investable assets will be ownership will be recorded on a blockchain at some point in the future. I think things will trade 24/7. I think that there will be it'll be a global um it'll be a level playing field globally. I think there's going to be very little friction. I think there's going to be it's going to open up a lot of fantastic opportunities for investors and I think it's going to lower the cost o”

“Financial privacy is a fundamental right, and when I think about money I think about store of value. Bitcoin for all of its amazing attributes is likely never going to have any privacy features, so I believe the next investing theme in the asset class is going to be privacy‑focused cryptocurrencies — I'm a big fan of Zcash.”

“Ultimately, I think that Bitcoin is fundamentally a better version of gold. If one or two or 3% of managed wealth goes into Bitcoin over the next 5 years, you're talking about a massive tidal wave of capital flowing into the asset class.”

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