The American Argument for Tokenizing Everything

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Nathaniel Whittemore

Investing, Business

4.8 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/28/investing-crypto-tech-robinhood-stock-market/ https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/01/30/put-securities-on-chain Sponsored by: Ledn Need liquidity without selling your Bitcoin? For 6+ years, Ledn has been the trusted choice for Bitcoin-backed lending. With transparency, security, and trust at our core, we help you access your BTC’s wealth while HODLing. Discover what your Bitcoin can do at ledn.io/borrowing. Ledger Ledger, the world leader in digital asset security, proudly sponsors The Breakdown podcast. Celebrating 10 years of protecting over 20% of the world’s crypto, Ledger ensures the security of your assets. For the best self-custody solution in the space, buy a LEDGER™ device and secure your crypto today.Buy now on Ledger.com. Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribe to the newsletter: https://breakdown.beehiiv.com/ Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.
0:09.3	It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.
0:18.3	What's going on, guys? It is Sunday February 2nd, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday.
0:24.0	Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it,
0:27.6	give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation,
0:31.0	come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or get a bit.ly slash
0:35.0	breakdown pod. All right, friends, welcome back to another
0:38.5	long read Sunday. Sometimes I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to read for this episode, but this
0:43.3	week it was very clear. Robin Hood's CEO Vlad Tennev wrote a piece in the Washington Post called
0:48.5	An Investing Revolution is Coming. The U.S. isn't ready for it. His subtitle says it all.
0:54.1	Cryptotechnology can democratize
0:55.5	access to opportunities offered by early stage private companies. So we're going to be reading that,
1:00.3	as well as a companion piece by lawyer Aaron Brogan called Put Securities on Chain. First, we will do
1:05.3	the piece from Vlad, once again turning it over to an AI version of myself from 11 labs.
1:10.0	Quick note on that, by the way,
1:11.5	I've been getting more comments lately around people not enjoying the AI version. I'm not sure to what
1:16.6	extent it's the novelty wearing off versus model degradation, but I'm going to experiment with
1:20.9	retraining another version of my voice and see if it does better. For now, though, I'm going to
1:24.5	throw it over to the AI to read this piece by Vlad Tenev,
1:30.6	An Investing Revolution is Coming and the U.S. isn't ready for it.
1:36.5	Looking to invest in some of the world's most exciting companies? Good luck. OpenAI,
1:47.7	valued at $157 billion, is still private. So is SpaceX at $350 billion. Not to mention Canva, Revolut, Stripe, Anthropic, each worth tens of billions.
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