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Coming to you from Consensus Hong Kong, APEC has emerged as one of the most active regions for institutional experimentation with tokenization, on-chain settlements, and regulated digital assets.

Joining us now for more is Stellar Development Foundation chief business officer, Raja Chakravorti,

and MarketNode CEO, Rehan Ahmed. Hello to you both.

Hello. Hey, Jen. Great to see you.

Great for you both to be here. The vibes at Consensus are vibing. I know the two of you were just on stage.

Give us a little preview for our audience at home that weren't able to watch. What were some of the insights you walked away with?

Yeah, I think for my end, we had the opportunity to talk about APEC, talk about tokenization,

and really start to focus on this concept of distribution, which is really

key.

I think over the past year what we've seen is this real acceleration in terms of how many

tokenized products are now available on chain.

But now over the course of the next year, what we're really going to be focusing on is

this idea of how do you distribute them?

Where are the investors?

How do you build really unique

profiles that are going to be really tangible for investors to come in? And I'm really excited

to see that move at scale. And I think in particular, APAC is a region where we're going to see

a lot of that growth.

Rayon, how are you looking at the APAC region?

Sure. So let's introduce APAC to your viewers who may not be watching from the APAC, right?

So I'm sure you know about the population demographics, but some of our partner research has shown by 2030,

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