Key Takeaways
- • Hedgeweek announced the winners of its 2026 Digital Assets Awards on June 9, recognizing excellence in hedge fund performance and digital asset service provider capability across multiple categories.
- • Key service provider winners include Amberdata (Digital Asset Research Provider of the Year), LMAX (Exchange of the Year: Overall), TP ICAP (Exchange of the Year: Innovation), Brickken (Tokenization Platform of the Year), Cactus Custody (Custodian of the Year: APAC), Securitize (Solution Provider of the Year: Innovation), and CoinRoutes (Algorithmic Trading and Risk Management awards).
- • The awards ceremony took place in London on June 9 at County Hall, hosted alongside Hedgeweek's annual European Summit, combining formal award presentations with networking opportunities for fund managers, allocators, and service providers across the digital assets space.
- • CoinRoutes secured multiple awards in algorithmic trading and risk management categories, while Talos was shortlisted across 12 categories, indicating strong competitive positioning among trading and compliance-focused service providers.
Summary
Hedgeweek's 2026 Digital Assets Awards recognized outstanding achievements in alternative fund management and service provision within the digital assets and hedge fund landscape. The annual awards program, which has operated for over a decade, uses allocator boards, peer surveys, editorial expertise, and data analysis to identify winners across performance and service categories.
The awards ceremony on June 9 in London brought together the institutional investment community, fund managers, and service providers for an evening networking event. The program featured a welcome reception, formal awards presentation with headline speaker Clive Myrie, and subsequent networking opportunities. The event was positioned as part of Hedgeweek's broader European Summit, facilitating connections between investors seeking outperforming hedge funds and managers seeking growth-stage service partners.
Winners spanned critical digital asset infrastructure categories. Exchange and trading platform providers dominated the service awards, with LMAX claiming Exchange of the Year: Overall and TP ICAP winning Exchange of the Year: Innovation. Data infrastructure and research capability were recognized through Amberdata's Digital Asset Research Provider of the Year award. Custody and asset servicing excellence was acknowledged with Cactus Custody's Custodian of the Year: APAC award and Securitize's Solution Provider of the Year: Innovation recognition. CoinRoutes distinguished itself with multiple awards in algorithmic trading and risk management, while Brickken secured the Tokenization Platform of the Year award, reflecting growing institutional focus on tokenized asset platforms.
The awards program simultaneously recognized fund managers' performance across AUM brackets, investment strategies, and geographies, though specific fund manager winners were not detailed in available materials. The combination of manager performance recognition and service provider excellence awards positions the program as a comprehensive assessment of the digital assets hedge fund ecosystem.
The awards ceremony on June 9 in London brought together the institutional investment community, fund managers, and service providers for an evening networking event. The program featured a welcome reception, formal awards presentation with headline speaker Clive Myrie, and subsequent networking opportunities. The event was positioned as part of Hedgeweek's broader European Summit, facilitating connections between investors seeking outperforming hedge funds and managers seeking growth-stage service partners.
Winners spanned critical digital asset infrastructure categories. Exchange and trading platform providers dominated the service awards, with LMAX claiming Exchange of the Year: Overall and TP ICAP winning Exchange of the Year: Innovation. Data infrastructure and research capability were recognized through Amberdata's Digital Asset Research Provider of the Year award. Custody and asset servicing excellence was acknowledged with Cactus Custody's Custodian of the Year: APAC award and Securitize's Solution Provider of the Year: Innovation recognition. CoinRoutes distinguished itself with multiple awards in algorithmic trading and risk management, while Brickken secured the Tokenization Platform of the Year award, reflecting growing institutional focus on tokenized asset platforms.
The awards program simultaneously recognized fund managers' performance across AUM brackets, investment strategies, and geographies, though specific fund manager winners were not detailed in available materials. The combination of manager performance recognition and service provider excellence awards positions the program as a comprehensive assessment of the digital assets hedge fund ecosystem.
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