Why Tokenization Is the Next Unlock After ETFs | Markets Daily
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
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The latest price moves and insights with WisdomTree founder and CEO Jonathan Steinberg.
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WisdomTree founder and CEO Jonathan Steinberg joins CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2025 with a conversation about the evolving landscape of investments as Wall Street meets Web3. Plus, the potential of tokenization and RWAs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the special edition Markets Daily from Consensus 2025. |
| 0:04.0 | Our next guest is the CEO and founder of Wisdom Tree and ETF Powerhouse with $19 billion in assets under management globally. |
| 0:23.7 | As Wall Street meets Web 3, |
| 0:25.3 | he's helping redefine how investors accessed and engaged |
| 0:28.7 | with markets of the future. |
| 0:30.3 | John O Steinberg, welcome to the show. |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:33.7 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:34.7 | You were on stage this morning, weren't you? |
| 0:36.5 | Yes, I was. |
| 0:37.2 | Your session was called, Can We Call It an Asset Class stage this morning, weren't you? Yes, I was. Your session was called, |
| 0:38.1 | can we call it an asset class yet? How serious investors can engage in crypto? My question for you, |
| 0:45.0 | can we call it an asset class yet? It's not quite an asset class yet, but it's moving well along |
| 0:52.0 | the way. I mean, Bitcoin is fully established for sure. And I think what we've |
| 0:57.4 | done with Coin Desk with our Global 20 or the Coin Desk 20, those kinds of products, I think, |
| 1:03.0 | will really go a long way to mainstreaming the asset class for investors. I wrote that title, Jen. I was going to say, Andy, we're through there. |
| 1:13.4 | And I was also there, and I have to agree, Bitcoin super established. CoinDast20 is going to be a great |
| 1:19.2 | QQQ of crypto to make that rest of that distribution process easy. And, you know, Wisdom Tree, |
| 1:25.5 | 119 billion in assets. I got to say say you accumulated that the hard way, right? |
| 1:31.3 | It's all wisdom free known for new stuff, for breaking down barriers, for giving access to new ideas, |
| 1:37.3 | which means you need to educate and then you need to distribute. |
| 1:41.3 | I guess, done a great job in crypto so far. How about the tokenized products? |
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