Tokenize
Tokenize is a podcast that explores the real-world applications of digital assets, with a focus on institutional use cases.
If you are in the camp - "Blockchain and cryptos are all hype, and no real use" - you have arrived at the right place.
Over the last few years, institutions have explored use cases and services like digital assets custody, on-chain analytics and tokenization. If you're interested in learning about the potential of decentralized technology, this podcast is for you.
Episodes
28 episodes
ERC 3643 - Pioneering token standards
Mainstream adoption and institutional engagement of digital assets can only happen if these assets have certain standards that they follow on-chain.Privacy, KYC, AML and other institutional asks need to be built in at the token level to ...
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40:10
The Agentic economy - From B2B to A2A
Yes, the world is going from B2B (Business to Business) to A2A (Agent to Agent). And this was envisioned 10 years ago by Jamie Burke - the founder and Chairman of Outlier Ventures.Jamie has been a visionary within crypto and AI for sever...
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55:05
Institutional lending onchain and RWAs
Can onchain lending scale? that too when it is institution focused?With $6 Billion in total borrowing and over $700 Million in TVL (Transaction Value Locked), Maple Finance have shown it is possible to scale lending to institutions oncha...
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29:00
Property in Hamptons/Mayfair? Buy it as an NFT
Real estate is the largest asset class that would benefit from tokenization. This market onchain is expected to get to $3 Trillion by 2030.In this episode of the Tokenize podcast, I talk to Dhivyan Kandaiah, Director @ Kodelab, building ...
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36:31
Crypto ETFs - with Bitwise
What does it take to be one of the top 5 Crypto ETF issuers across the world? Bitwise have managed to do that for years. In a market often dominated by the likes of Blackrock and Fidelity, Bitwise have created a niche for themselves.In t...
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30:54
Tokenization - a buzz word or a practical solution?
📢 Tokenization is no longer theoretical—it’s here, and it’s transforming finance!In the latest #Tokenize Podcast, Hadley Stern and I spoke with
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38:07
The Brazilian ETP/ETF landscape
Who issued the first crypto ETF ever? Read on..When it comes to the crypto asset class, one part of the world often blindsides the entire world in the way it embraces cryptos - Latin America. Brazil being the largest econom...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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45:16
Agridex - Tokenizing crops
Coco sold from Nigeria - is that something that could benefit from going onchain? What are the benefits? Why do we need a blockchain? And why Solana?These were the questions I had for Henry Duckworth, Co-Founder of Agridex. Agridex are ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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37:49
Ethereum vs Solana - What's your chain of choice?
This is an age old question, Ethereum or Solana - which chain is better, who's got their product and ecosystem strategy right?Back in 2021, the Ethereum DeFi summer was on, and Solana was hailed as one of the contenders for the Ethereum...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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37:38
Zodia Markets and real world relevance
To many, Crypto and Blockchain are still solutions looking for a problem. The number of Traditional Finance (TradFi) leaders moving into DeFi, however, indicates that there are global financial services challenges that Blockchain can solve....
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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29:37
Baxus - Tokenize the spirit
Tired of overpriced whiskey? You’re not alone. The liquor market is a murky world of information asymmetry, where prices fluctuate wildly without rhyme or reason. Enter Baxus, a revolutionary platform leveraging Solana blockchain t...
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40:07
Zodia Custody - bridging the gap
Many see DeFi as the future of finance, and the regulated financial industry we are in today is called as 'TradFi' by the crypto world. There are very few fortunate practitioners who play a role in bridging these two industries. In...
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32:51
The Blockchain Trio
In this episode of Tokenize, I sit down with two Blockchain OGs. Efi Pylarinou and Anton Golub, who have been involved in the Crypto space for a good part of a decade.We structured this discussion such that each of us would bring our fa...
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48:07
The Canadian ETF landscape with 3iQ
Yes, the approvals of the Bitcoin ETF was a major milestone for the crypto industry. But when we say Bitcoin ETF in this context, we mean the US based ETFs being approved by the SEC.But, the crypto ETF industry has had regional leaders ...
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36:34
Staking - Crypto's risk free rate?
I recently joined Marinade Finance, leading their institutional growth capability. When I mentioned about it to my mom, I had to explain what Marinade did - and what crypto staking was.I had to go back to retail banking. A retail bank i...
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32:18
A legitimate asset class - thanks ETFs
For years the Crypto industry has suffered from reputational issues. Despite several institutions trying to get the thumbs up from the US regulators for their Bitcoin ETFs, it was only in Jan 2024 that milestone happened.Yet, there have...
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39:42
Play to Earn is back with Honeyland
It was not long ago that I was involved in the play2earn web3 gaming spacePlay2Earn founders were trying to solve a difficult problem - in fact a number of them. Onboarding gamers in millions and staying sustainable in a Play to Earn ga...
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41:56
The people's chain - Polygon
What are Layer 2 Blockchains? 🎯I recently read an article describing Layer 1 and Layer 2 Blockchains. If Layer1 Blockchain was a city, L2 chains are skyscrapers. Basically, L2s offer scale where L1s are starting to max out.Despi...
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39:15
Convergence of digital assets and AI
We live in a world of tech jargons. AI has captured the imagination of all tech geeks and futurists since the rise of ChatGPT, generative AI, LLMs, you name it.I now use ChatGPT and Bard more than Google. In this epis...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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36:44
Access Protocol - Decentralizing content creation
I began my content journey about 8 years ago when I started blogging. In the initial days of content creation, I published over 150 articles over 3 years. However, recently I noticed that the blog site was no longer online and I lost access to ...
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29:51
Stablecoins and a Circle of pioneers
How do you stay grounded in a space filled with degens, KOLs and hype? Stablecoins is the answer.Stablecoin has been easily the most useful, yet vastly underrated innovation within the digital assets space. And in this episode of Tokeni...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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33:11
Can CBDCs drive financial inclusion?
This time we get lucky to hear from a hands-on CBDC expert Conrad Kraft. Conrad is a Strategic Advisor at the Digital Euro Association, and is able to talk about Central Bank Digital Currencies from both an emerging markets and a d...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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40:52
An Outlier, an OG and the most versatile web3 investor
Outlier ventures has been an organisation that a native web3 person can't help admiring. They have been at the heart of the development around this space through ups and downs and thrived.In this episode of Tokenize, Jasper De Maera - H...
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43:05
Can you long London and short New york city?
In this episode of Tokenize, I speak to one of my favourite teams in the land of tokenized real world assets. Kellan Grenier and Trevor Bacon formerly part of the hedge fund industry in New York, talk about their journey with Parcl, their start...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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36:51
The consensus chain - Solana
In this episode of Tokenize, I am joined by Nick Ducoff, the Head of Institutional growth at the Solana foundation. If you have been following the crypto/web3 market you would know that Solana was one of the hardest hit ecosystems by the FTX co...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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