Tokenization
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14 statements about Tokenization, every show
Armstrong: Every asset class will be tokenized and brought on-chain
“So we see every asset class being tokenized and brought into on chain to, you know, 24 seven and global liquidity and all this kind of thing”
Sharma: Overlooked tokenization costs erase enterprise AI production savings
“Solutions are also developed. But when the solutions went into production, three to five months passed, and they realized, oh God, we have not considered the cost of tokenization.”
Gurley: Tokenizing unregulated assets invites severe speculation and manipulation
“There's a risk with tokenization, especially if it happens on assets that don't have regulation around financial disclosures that you get a ton of speculation and even worse manipulation.”
Chatterjee: Tokenization will make fractional ownership of high-value assets reality
“But with tokenization, fractional ownership becomes really real. That same property, which is let's say worth two crores, today you can't think of taking it. But if it is broken down among 10 people who can have fractional ownership, everybody has 20 lakhs wor…”
Chatterjee: Three shifts will define global finance within five years
“So I think if you ask me, top three will be those hyper personalization, completely embedded Everyday finance and tokenization leading to fractional ownerships of assets, I think would be the three most defining changes that we'll witness in the next four, fiv…”
Abraham: 24/7 stock trading requires market liquidity, not blockchain token wrappers
“That doesn't make any sense because just by wrapping it into a token doesn't mean it's ready for seven. Like, come on. Like also like, don't pretend like you don't know that. Like, you know, it's like, it's just a fucking rapper, you know, let's be straight, y…”
Tenev: Tokenization will lead non-US private investing before entering US
“Tokenization will be the primary vehicle for ex-US investment until we get regulatory clarity and you'll see tokenization of privates seep into the US as well.”
Tenev: Pretty much anything will likely become tradable real-time like stocks
“I think that we will likely see a world where pretty much anything can be tradable real time, like a stock.”
Cuban: Retail private markets require platforms to act as market makers
“Is there a way, whether it's tokenization or other approaches to that?
Probably, but it's going to have to go back to the future where somebody is going to have to take some risk and be a market maker.
Yeah.
If Vlad or whoever is a market maker so that there's…”
Forman: Long-Tail Esoteric Assets May See Tokenization Before Institutional Assets
“We may see more adoption in the longer tail before some of the more institutional assets.”
Suno builds on transformers and focuses innovation on audio tokenization
“We don't make it a secret that these are just transformers. This is somewhat our backgrounds doing text before, but also transformers scale nicely. A lot of work ends up being done for you by the open source text community, which is always really nice. We can …”
Feldman: Poor tokenization schemes heavily bias foundation models toward English
“One of the things we learned was that it's really important taking into account
The language that has fewer tokens, especially, you know, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, their characters sometimes require two bits rather than one bit, and so the tokenization scheme has…”
Pal: 20% of corporate intangible balance-sheet value will be tokenized
“Well, probably 20% of that is going to get tokenized via what you're doing is essentially tokenizing the intangible of brand, culture, and community.”