Bitcoin DeFi: Tokenization of Assets
We call it like it is here. When Blackrock speaks, the Earth rearranges itself to listen.
CEO of Blackrock, Larry Fink, famously said: "the next generation for markets, the next generation for securities, will be tokenization of securities." He believes tokenizing real-world assets could be a $16 trillion business opportunity.
Blackrock then went on to start its first tokenization fund called BUIDL (a sort of portmanteau-esque word merging the concepts of HODL and BUILD) using a firm called Securitize.io and the Ethereum network. At the time, the Stacks Nakamoto Upgrade had not yet deployed and Bitcoin finality was not yet available. With tokenized assets now deployable on Stacks, will Blackrock start using its preferred blockchain, Bitcoin, for its future tokenization efforts.
Remember, we are still in the first inning of the first game of pre-season here with regards to tokenization of assets.
Blackrock itself aims to tokenize $10 trillion of its assets in partnership with Securitize.io. The question that remains is when Securitize.io will publicly announce its support for the Stacks L2 solution.
Do you have any idea what the demand for STX will be when $10 trillion worth of assets are tokenized on the world's most secure and decentralized blockchain?