my personal suspicion is that the finance industry will never find a use for a public blockchain. i've heard of people who've attended some of these professional conferences coming back with the impression that very few of the attendees knew anything about it and were there to look cool.
but that's ok because real people will force them to deal with it whether they like it or not.
The finance industry and others are moving to a blockchain, it has not yet been adopted in full or implemented.
All I hear about the blockchain in mainstream business is well apart from any coin standard. They are interested in the technology but not the current 'wild' uses by players such as ourselves, they dont want to buy into bitcoin and rely on some unknown entities for control of that.
Their view of blockstream is internal use or possible between fixed known parts of their company or industry. So none of it would resemble the currency kind of element we have, power would be controlled by legal means. Settlement probably would be FIAT so I dont see any of what they do relates to BTC as a price discussion exactly. I guess it adds some legitmacy, are these people customers for ASIC? probably not