Ep. 699 Tokenized Securities and Global Crypto Adoption with Jesse Knutson of Bitfinex
CRYPTO 101
Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Knutson of Bitfinex Securities breaks down why tokenization is becoming inevitable across global markets. He explains how real-time settlement, investor control, and global access give tokenized securities a major edge over traditional finance. Jesse highlights why emerging markets are moving faster than the U.S. due to capital needs and regulatory flexibility. The episode concludes with a long-term view that tokenized and traditional markets will gradually merge over the coming decades.
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Chapters
00:00 — Brendan welcomes Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities.
02:00 — Jesse’s path from traditional finance to Bitcoin.
06:48 — What Bitfinex Securities does within the Bitfinex–Tether ecosystem.
08:11 — Why tokenization wins: 24/7 markets, instant settlement, self-custody.
10:43 — Emerging markets adopt tokenization faster than the G7.
13:13 — Global crypto usage is driven by practicality, not ideology.
15:26 — Long-term catalysts: demographics and better market infrastructure.
17:38 — Tokenized and traditional markets will coexist for decades.
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| 1:02.8 | All right, everyone. We are joined by Jesse Knutson. He is the head of operations at BitPenek Securities. Jesse, welcome, and it's good to have you. Great. That's great to be here. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. We appreciate you coming on here. It's funny. I was talking to Jesse just before we began. And I was like, where are you coming in from? Because I'm waking up at the time of making this. |
| 1:28.0 | And it's morning time. |
| 1:29.1 | It's like 8 a.m. over here. |
| 1:30.5 | And he's like, yeah, I'm getting ready to wind down. It's 10 p.m. over in there. So we really do appreciate you coming on. Yeah, at opposite hours, man, all the way from Taiwan, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I've actually been in Taiwan now longer than I was ever in Canada. |
| 1:46.5 | So I'm Canadian. |
| 1:47.3 | I've been in Taiwan 25 years. |
| 1:49.2 | So more than half my life, which is pretty surreal. |
| 1:53.8 | What's keeping you over there? |
| 1:55.4 | Is it like the weather, the community, or the crypto freedom? |
| 1:59.6 | Well, the wife, the kids, the dogs, the house. That'll do it. That's what it is now. Originally, you know, I was to, when I graduated from university, it was to learn Chinese. So that was a long time ago and turned out to be pretty good advice from a professor that I had at the time. Yeah. Wow, man. Well, that's awesome. Those are all really good reasons, too. And, you know, from |
| 2:18.9 | what I've heard, it's a beautiful place to live. But, you know, nonetheless, we appreciate you |
| 2:23.3 | hopping on with here later at night. For people who don't know, Jesse has a big background when it comes |
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