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Why the $18T retirement industry now sees blockchain as key to survival
Robert Crossley explains why accounts and wallets will coexist, and why the industry’s migration on-chain will be decided before most savers notice it.
Read the reportInstitutional tokenization, reported from the people building it.
Why it exists
Cutting through the announcements to show what is moving institutional tokenization into production and what still stands in the way.
Published work & conversations
Latest briefing · Issue 02
The Clarity Act Missed Its Window. What Now for Tokenization?
The second issue examines why Clarity stalled, why regulatory guidance is not a durable rulebook and why state-by-state licensing remains the harder barrier to production.
Read the briefingSelected reporting
Follow the migration, not the noise.
Original interviews, market reporting and the framework connecting today’s upgrades to tomorrow’s native on-chain markets.
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Tokenization: Think Evolution, Not Revolution
Why pragmatic upgrades to settlement, collateral and distribution will come before a wholesale rewrite of finance.
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J.P. Morgan’s JPM Coin set for native issuance on Canton
Exclusive commentary from Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz on regulated, programmable money moving onto shared financial infrastructure.
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The $5B gold corridor targeting six-second settlement
How GSX and Ubuntu Tribe plan to collapse a costly Africa–EU transfer chain into a programmable, on-chain settlement route.
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Where crypto’s next real revenues may come from
The opportunity beyond trading: routing, coordination and settlement across an increasingly hybrid financial system.
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What happens when Bitcoin supply growth falls below 1%
Bill Laboon explains the halving, emerging Bitcoin use cases and the fee economy miners will ultimately depend on.
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Evolution first. Migration next. Native on-chain later.
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Evolution
Improve existing products and processes using digital rails without forcing institutions to abandon the systems they trust.
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Migration
Track the hard middle: interoperability, custody, identity, legal finality, collateral mobility and the cash leg.
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Native on-chain
Watch for assets, money and obligations that can be issued, financed, settled and reused on the same programmable infrastructure.
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Operators, in their own words.
Short, edited conversations that expose the operating detail behind the headlines.
What Clarity could change — and what would still be broken
With Kyle Sonlin, co-founder of Global Settlement Network
Why blockchain adoption in retirement is no longer optional
With Robert Crossley of Franklin Templeton
Inside the Bitcoin halving and the network’s next use cases
With Bill Laboon of Web3 Foundation
In productionNative on-chain creditMaple Finance conversation
In productionWhere institutional markets convergeCanton Network conversation
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The Tokenization Beat maps institutional tokenization’s path: evolution within today’s infrastructure, the difficult migration to digital rails, and the eventual move toward native on-chain markets.