{"id":126168,"date":"2025-03-31T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126168"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:18:13","slug":"contrary-to-popular-belief-regulation-isnt-slowing-tokenization-prometheum-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126168","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Contrary to popular belief,\u2019 regulation isn\u2019t slowing tokenization \u2014 Prometheum CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsThe market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) is growing by the day, but contrary to belief, the biggest hurdle to broader adoption isn\u2019t regulation, but a lack of dedicated secondary markets for buying and selling tokenized securities, according to Prometheum founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan.\u00a0
\nIn an interview with Cointelegraph, Kaplan drew attention to ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood\u2019s recent appearance at the Digital Asset Summit in New York, where she said that a lack of regulatory clarity is preventing her company from tokenizing its funds.
\n\u201cContrary to popular belief, however, the hurdle isn\u2019t ambiguous regulation,\u201d said Kaplan, who noted that the US Securities and Exchange Commission\u2019s (SEC) special purpose broker-dealer framework and Alternative Trading System (ATS) licensing \u201calready provide a regulated pathway for issuing blockchain-native funds that offer efficiency advantages over traditional issuances.\u201d
\n\u201cThe real bottleneck lies in the limited market infrastructure for delivering tokenized securities trading to a broad investor base,\u201d he said.
\nExcluding stablecoins, the value of tokenized RWAs has increased by nearly 8% to $19.5 billion over the past 30 days, according to industry data. Private credit and US Treasury debt remain the two largest use cases.\u00a0
\nThe value of tokenized RWAs has grown rapidly over the past year. Source: RWA.xyz\u201cThese assets currently sit on a handful of blockchains, but there is still no fully public secondary market where institutional and retail investors can buy, sell, and trade them, as they do with traditional securities on Nasdaq or through a brokerage account like Fidelity,\u201d said Kaplan, who identified two general approaches for building out these platforms.\u00a0
\nThe first is building tokenized securities markets using decentralized finance (DeFi) frameworks, much like what Ondo Finance, Ethena Labs and Securitize are doing.
\nRelated: Ethena Labs, Securitize launch blockchain for DeFi and tokenized assets
\nThe second approach involves integrating tokenization protocols into existing brokerage platforms that operate under SEC-registered entities and are subject to federal securities laws.\u00a0
\n\u201cLegacy crypto and fintech platforms are already accustomed to facilitating cryptocurrency trading, so you would expect them to seek to broaden their offerings to include tokenized securities,\u201d said Kaplan.
\nWhile many in the latter camp do not operate digitally, they \u201cwon\u2019t cede market share without a fight,\u201d said Kaplan. \u201cMany are already investing in their own tokenization initiatives, or partnering with fintech and crypto firms, to remain competitive.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s at stake is the next wave of users onboarding into the digital asset space […] The question is then, will the brokerage industry enter the digital asset space, or will crypto platforms build the next gen markets for investors to buy and sell digital securities?\u201d
\nAs a digital asset trading and custody firm, Prometheum is attempting to bridge the infrastructure gap by building a full-service digital asset securities marketplace. The company claims that securities traded on Prometheum have reduced fees, faster settlement times and increased efficiency.
\nRelated: CME Group taps Google Cloud for pilot asset tokenization program
\nInvestors want \u2018digital native\u2019 versions of assets they\u2019ve always known
\nPerhaps the biggest demand driver for tokenized assets among traditional investors is that they want to access \u201cdigital native versions of all assets, in addition to crypto tokens, through a single ecosystem they are comfortably using […] to meet a range of financial goals,\u201d said Kaplan.
\nOne area where tokenization appears to be gaining traction is in real estate. As Cointelegraph recently reported, luxury and commercial properties are being tokenized all over North America and secondary markets are being established to enable the trading of tokenized shares.\u00a0
\nA 2024 report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) called tokenization a \u201cgame-changing blockchain use case in financial services\u201d due to its scalability and near-instant transactions.\u00a0
\nAccording to BCG managing director and senior partner Sean Park, tokenization could boost investors\u2019 annual returns by roughly $100 billion while increasing the revenue streams of financial institutions.\u00a0
\nTokenized RWAs as an investable asset class reached an \u201cinflection point\u201d in 2023. Source: Boston Consulting GroupThe potential of tokenization has even been flagged by the World Economic Forum in a recent article published by Digital Asset co-founder and CEO Yuvan Rooz.\u00a0
\nIn the article, Rooz showed that roughly 10% of the $230 trillion global securities market is eligible for use as collateral.\u00a0
\n\u201cTokenization, which improves collateral mobility and capital efficiency, could unlock this untapped capital and optimize intraday liquidity so that funds can be accessed and moved within the same trading day to meet payment and settlement obligations,\u201d said Rooz.
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