Carlos Domingo says onchain stocks and ETFs could outsize $30 billion tokenized asset market

Securitize's CEO said shifting even 2% to 3% of the roughly $150 trillion global stock and ETF market onchain could lift tokenized assets toward a $5 trillion opportunity.

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Summary

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said tokenized stocks and ETFs could expand the real-world asset market from about $30 billion to roughly $5 trillion. He told CoinDesk that the global stock and ETF market is around $150 trillion, and that moving 2% to 3% of that activity onchain could approach $5 trillion. Domingo said public blockchains such as Ethereum remain the preferred institutional infrastructure, underscoring the industry's push to use blockchain networks for issuance, transfer and settlement of traditional financial instruments.

Terms & Concepts
  • tokenized stocks: Shares represented digitally on a blockchain so they can be issued, transferred or settled onchain.
  • onchain: Recorded and transacted on a blockchain network.
  • real-world asset market: The market for traditional financial or physical assets represented in tokenized form on blockchain rails.