CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Hunter Horsley

CEO & Co-Founder, Bitwise Asset Management

Search every verified Hunter Horsley interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Hunter Horsley, CEO and co-founder of Bitwise Asset Management, discussed the current state of Bitcoin and institutional adoption in several recent appearances. In an October 2026 conversation with Lombard, he characterized the current period as one of "redefinition" for Bitcoin, describing a transition from a tech-dominated industry to one where financial institutions are increasingly shaping the asset's identity. He suggested this shift has contributed to a lull in sentiment and prices, but framed it as a foundational phase for Bitcoin's long-term development as an established asset class. At a digital asset yield summit in October 2026, Horsley addressed institutional demand for yield products, identifying counterparty risk as a primary concern among institutions. He noted that Bitwise has seen hundreds of millions of dollars flow into separately managed accounts running options strategies on Bitcoin, which he said provide a clearer and more bounded risk profile compared to lending Bitcoin. In a separate interview, he cited a Bitwise survey of the 15 largest institutions indicating that none reduced their crypto exposure during a bear market, with many increasing it. He also stated that he does not see clients or partners waiting for regulatory clarity, describing the most regulated financial institutions as "hurtling forward" into the space regardless of legislative outcomes.

Recent appearances

Notable quotes

“The biggest is counterparty risk. So who are the counterparties that my assets have exposure to? I think one of the reasons ETFs have been so successful is the risk is so tightly wound and identified. Right, you have full disclosure to your filing, you have audit with KPMG on the underlying products, you have a vaulted custodian. But if you're accessing yield, to Jacob's point, are you lending it to someone, and who?”

“In my experience with institutions, you need to be able to explain what risks are. So, one of the reasons I think that this year you're seeing a few hundred million dollars into the option strategy for generating yield on Bitcoin is it provides a clearer and more bound answer to the question about what the risks are versus, for instance, lending the Bitcoin, which historically was one of the common ways to try to ass”

“I think it's a relevant topic. I can't speak for all of Bitwise, but my perception is that I don't see any clients or partners waiting for clarity. What I see is the most regulated financial institutions in the world hurtling forward into this space unrelenting as a byproduct of clarity passing or not passing. So it could be an asset if written well. I think there will be certain use cases and scenarios where it'll b”

“The big picture of what crypto broadly is experiencing in 2026 is that for a decade there were all of these barriers to adoption that were so specific to crypto. It was too nascent. There were no exchanges. Then in 2019 there were no qualified custodians. Then there was concern that the government would shut it down and the crypto space has just worked through this progression of reasons that people weren't doing thi”

“I think in the 2024 elections in the US, here again you saw this crop up wherein the crypto industry in America was so enraged by the treatment under the prior administration that a pretty disparate group of actors decided to come together and do something about it and put together more money than any other industry in America.”

“Every structural tailwind is aligned to crypto's benefit. It's actually unbelievable to me. So, if it's all right with you, Kevin, I'd love to actually just step through some of these. Okay, so number one uh an element of crypto is uh people losing trust in institutions, governments losing trust in each other. That over the last five years has increased. Uh another element that is conducive to crypto is the global mo”

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →