Beyond the Firewall S1E3 - Dave Schwed

From Wall Street Custody to Web3 Security: Dave Schwed on the Institutional Gap and the Future of Digital Assets

 

In this episode of Beyond the Firewall, we sit down with Dave Schwed, former COO of Halborn and veteran of BNY Mellon and Citigroup, to explore the collision of traditional finance and the decentralized frontier. Dave pulls back the curtain on the "institutional friction" preventing mass enterprise adoption of blockchain—explaining why traditional risk frameworks fail in a world of smart contracts, and how the next generation of custody will be defined by real-time AI defense rather than static vaults.