R3: Why Institutional Capital Is Choosing Solana with Richard Brown, CEO R3 Labs

🔥 Richard Brown (CEO of R3 Labs) on Why Solana is the Future of Institutional Blockchain & Real-World Assets | Breakpoint Abu Dhabi 2025

Live from Solana's Breakpoint conference in Abu Dhabi (December 2025), Richard Brown — CEO of R3 Labs and former CTO — joins us for an in-depth conversation on bridging traditional finance with DeFi.

Richard shares his journey from discovering Bitcoin in 2011 to building enterprise blockchain solutions, and why R3 is now all-in on Solana.

Key highlights:

- How Bitcoin’s permissionless value transfer changed everything for him

- The story behind Corda: R3’s private blockchain powering billions in assets

- Why Solana was the “overwhelmingly obvious” choice for R3’s public chain integration

- The massive pivot: From optimizing TradFi → bringing institutional capital an ...