BlackRock CEO Endorses Asset Tokenization in Annual Letter
BlackRock CEO Endorses Asset Tokenization in Annual Letter
🏦 BlackRock Goes All In
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's annual letter emphasizes the transformative potential of asset tokenization across all financial instruments. The world's largest asset manager sees tokenization as a path to:
- Democratized market access
- Streamlined shareholder voting
- Enhanced yield distribution
Ondo Finance is actively developing this vision through Ondo Global Markets, a platform designed to tokenize traditional securities. Their approach leverages blockchain technology to offer:
- Global accessibility
- Real-time settlement
- Reduced operational costs
The initiative aims to bring the $100T US securities market on-chain, following the path of stablecoins' $5T market presence.
“Every stock, every bond, every fund—every asset—can be tokenized.” In his annual letter, @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink highlights tokenization’s massive potential & why it needs “a new digital identity verification system”: blackrock.com/corporate/inve…
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