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Tim Grant
Speaker · Proof of Talk 2026
Deus X Capital

Tim Grant

CEO, Deus X Capital

Deus X Capital does not only write cheques, it owns and runs businesses, and its chief executive judges tokenisation by one test: whether anyone can get a price.

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The Significance

Why the room needs them.

Tim Grant is chief executive of Deus X Capital, and previously ran SIX Digital Exchange and Galaxy Digital's European business. Deus X is a family-office-backed investor and operator whose businesses include Deus X Pay, Solstice and Cor Prime. He spoke at Proof of Talk Paris 2026 on the Taostats Stage, on the move from enterprise blockchain to tokenised markets.

The Numbers
$1bn
Initial assets at Deus X Capital's launch, October 2023
$250m
Abu Dhabi digital asset infrastructure platform announced with Bridgetower Capital, February 2024
2015
Year he moved into digital assets, after meeting Ripple and Coinbase
The Thesis · on the record

What Tim believes about the next ten years.

01
Tokenisation is nothing without liquidity
Grant told Benzinga in June 2025 that tokenising an asset achieves little on its own: if you cannot get a price on it, and cannot buy and sell it, the fact that it has been tokenised makes no difference. He expected the sector to take years to mature.
02
Institutional money arrives through allocators, not better apps
In the same interview he argued that DeFi will grow when the big asset managers and wealth management platforms route money into it, rather than through improvements to user experience.
03
Integrate with traditional finance rather than replace it
Describing what pulled him into digital assets after meeting the Ripple and Coinbase teams in 2015, he told CoinDesk in January 2026 that the appeal was faster settlement, lower costs and greater transparency achieved by integrating with the existing system, not by displacing it.
04
Investing and operating belong in the same firm
Grant has said Deus X's growth strategy is deliberately hands-on and infrastructure-led. The group builds and owns businesses such as Alpha Lab 40, Deus X Pay and Solstice rather than only taking stakes in them, while also investing, as with its July 2024 stake in APEX:E3.
The Timeline

Years of shipping.

2015
Moves into digital assets at the end of the year, after meeting the executive teams of Ripple and Coinbase in San Francisco
2018
DrumG Technologies, the ConsenSys-backed firm he founded and led, raises $6.5m and builds Titanium for OTC trading and data
2020
Joins SIX Digital Exchange in March as head of business, later becoming chief executive
2021
SIX announces on 12 August that David Newns will take over SDX; Galaxy Digital announces his appointment as head of Europe the same day
2023
Leaves Galaxy in September as head of EMEA; Deus X Capital launches in October with him as chief executive officer
2024
Deus X announces Cor Prime and Solstice Labs, and incorporates an ADGM entity with Bridgetower Capital for a $250m digital asset infrastructure platform
In Their Words

Lines that keep proving correct.

“Tokenization is nothing without liquidity. If you can't get a price on it, if you can't buy and sell it, the fact that it's tokenized doesn't make any difference”

Benzinga, 11 June 2025

“The way money is going to make its way in is… through the big asset managers and the wealth management platforms”

Benzinga, 11 June 2025

“What I saw was a powerful new toolset and the opportunity to address those inefficiencies in a practical way, faster settlement, lower costs, greater transparency, not by replacing traditional finance, but by integrating with it”

CoinDesk, 26 January 2026
The Body of Work

What they have built, written, and backed.

Built

  • Deus X CapitalLaunched on 2 October 2023 with an initial $1bn of assets, working across private equity, venture capital, venture building and fund allocation. The businesses it builds and owns sit in a Deus X Enterprises division. Grant is chief executive officer; Stuart Connolly, formerly of Red Acre Ventures, is chief investment officer.
  • Solstice LabsAnnounced at Solana Breakpoint in September 2024 to build institutional-grade DeFi products, and wholly funded by Deus X Capital. Grant is a co-founder and chairman; Ben Nadareski, his Proof of Talk co-panellist, is co-founder and chief executive, and Stuart Connolly is a co-founder.
  • Deus X PayThe former HAYVN, acquired by Deus X in February 2024 and relaunched on 9 December 2024 as a regulated institutional stablecoin payments business focused on international payments. Richard Crook is chief executive; Grant is chairman.
  • Alpha Lab 40A wholly owned Deus X portfolio company operating as an institutional digital asset market maker and liquidity provider. Grant is chairman and Stuart Connolly is chief executive, the same pairing that runs Deus X Capital itself.

Tim at Proof of Talk

The next Proof of Talk is in Abu Dhabi.

Louvre Abu Dhabi, 3–4 December 2026. Admission is by application, and the room is capped at 2,000.

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