Tokenizing Real World Assets | Robert Leshner
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Can we Tokenize the World? Robert Leshner, creator of Compound and one of the forefathers of DeFi, is on a mission to do so.
With his new company Superstate, new product, tokenized t-bills and new location, New York city. Robert is trying to bring $300 trillion in TradFI assets on-chain.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
4:27 Tokenization History
9:46 RWA Problem Statement
14:04 Opening the Door
26:37 Securities Laws
31:50 Tokenizing Treasuries
39:06 Superstate
46:57 Regulatory Constraints
56:01 The Future of RWAs
1:00:36 Pitching TradFi
1:05:13 2030 Prediction
1:06:57 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Robert Leshner
https://twitter.com/rleshner
Superstate
https://superstate.co/
Superstate - USTB Fund
https://superstate.co/ustb
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| 0:00.0 | So obviously, individual stocks and bonds are going to be tokenized. |
| 0:04.1 | We're issued for the first time on blockchains. |
| 0:06.4 | From there, you know, obviously every fund is going to, you know, have the ability, you know, |
| 0:12.2 | 30 years from that, be running with an on-chain component. |
| 0:14.8 | You know, we're not limited just to T-B-B-B-500 fund or a NASDAQ fund or you know a real estate, you know, a real estate, you know, |
| 0:23.9 | reed fund or commodity funds or any type of fund, you know, |
| 0:28.8 | can and will be issued on the chain. Bankless Nation, Robert Leshner on the podcast today. |
| 0:37.1 | He is the creator of Compound. |
| 0:38.6 | I would say he's one of the forefathers of Defe, one of the original protocols for sure. |
| 0:44.2 | Now he is doing something in the traditional finance space. |
| 0:46.9 | At least, it's a cross section of Defy and Tradfy. |
| 0:50.1 | He's trying to bring $300 trillion in TradFi assets on chain. |
| 0:55.0 | Not overnight, not immediately, but over some period of years to come. |
| 1:00.0 | He's got a new company, it's called Superstate, he's got a new product, tokenized |
| 1:04.4 | he bills and he's in a brand new location. So from Silicon Valley over to |
| 1:09.2 | New York City, a lot of new things for Robert Leshner on the episode today. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, he ended the episode with a prediction of 10 trillion real world assets on chain by the end of this decade |
| 1:20.1 | in the next six years. |
| 1:21.8 | So in this episode, you'll hear how he gets to that |
| 1:23.9 | prediction but first we have to talk to our friends and sponsors over at |
| 1:26.9 | Kartezi who's building the first modular execution layer that runs |
| 1:31.2 | Linux is an alt virtual machine in the module execution layer |
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