Choi: All real-world assets will eventually be digitized and tokenized
Emily Choi · Regulating Crypto in the Name of National Competitiveness · Mar 5, 2024 · at 10:04
Emilie Choi, President and COO of Coinbase, speaks with Ben Horowitz about the scope of digital assets beyond Bitcoin.
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“I think it's actually a store of value, but there's other assets, and I think the way to think about this is that the world is going to be tokenized, so we have more than 200 assets on our platform whether that's ETH or Solana or others, and It could be an NFT. It could be that we digitize real estate. It could be whatever. The whole world is, is likely to be tokenized at some point.”
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