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Consensus and SALT Partner for Asia's Premier Institutional Crypto Summit

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4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Announcing Consensus x SALT Hong Kong Institutional Summit. Consensus and SALT are teaming up to host an Institutional Summit in Hong Kong. This closed-door gathering is designed for sophisticated investors and capital allocators, focusing on constructive debates and providing key insights for deploying capital into the digital asset class. Consensus Chairman Michael Lau and SALT CEO John Darsie join CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie to preview the event. Learn more about the Summit here. - Break the cycle of exploitation. Break down the barriers to truth. Break into the next generation of privacy. Break Free. Free to scroll without being monetized. Free from censorship. Freedom without fear. We deserve more when it comes to privacy. Experience the next generation of blockchain that is private and inclusive by design. Break free with Midnight, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠midnight.network/break-free⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Need liquidity without selling your crypto? Take out a ⁠Figure Crypto-Backed Loan⁠, allowing you to borrow against your BTC, ETH, or SOL with 12-month terms and no prepayment penalties. They have the lowest rates in the industry at 8.91%, allowing you to access instant cash or buy more Bitcoin without triggering a tax event. Unlock your crypto’s potential today at Figure! ⁠https://figuremarkets.co/coindesk⁠ - Genius Group has partnered with CoinDesk for Bitcoin Treasury Month, launching the Genius x CoinDesk Quest. Participants can join the Bitcoin Academy, complete free microcourses from experts like Natalie Brunell and Saifedean Ammous, and enter to win 1,000,000 GEMs (worth 1 BTC) promoting bitcoin education and adoption.Learn more at:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠geniusgroup.ai/coindesk-bitcoin-treasury-month/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

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We're gathering some of the most sophisticated investors into this particular closed door gathering. And so I do expect there to be really insightful and, you know, really constructive debates around kind of where the market's going, how to approach the market, just really hopefully sharing useful tools for people to think about how they would be able to deploy capital into this asset class.

0:27.4

Break the cycle of exploitation, break down the barriers to truth, break into the next generation

0:31.9

of privacy, break free. Free to scroll without being monetized, free from censorship,

0:37.0

freedom without fear, We deserve more when it

0:39.1

comes to privacy. Experience the next generation of blockchain that is private and inclusive by design.

0:44.8

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0:48.6

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0:56.1

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1:04.1

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1:11.5

Looking for the best way to unlock your crypto's liquidity, whether you're funding a major

1:15.3

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1:19.5

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1:24.6

Figure app today. Hey, everyone, I'm Jen Sannasi, and you're watching

1:28.4

Coin Desk. Well, Salt and Consensus are partnering to bring you the Consensus Salt Hong Kong

1:34.5

Institutional Summit. Joining me now to talk to us all about what that event is, is Salt CEO John Darcy

1:40.3

and Consensus Chairman Michael Lau. Hello to you both. Great to be here, Jen.

1:45.1

Hey there, Jen. Great to have you both here. Consensus is right around the corner. I know I'm getting

1:50.4

ready for it. John, I'm going to start with you, since you are the new face in the gang here. Talk to us

1:57.0

about the event. What was interesting to you from assault perspective about consensus?

2:02.0

Well, first of all, we heard just such great things about consensus Hong Kong last year.

2:06.7

I know it was a debut event for consensus in Hong Kong, but by all accounts hit it out of the park.

2:11.9

And so I think we love Hong Kong. Anthony Scaramucci, our founder and chairman, spent years

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