‘Tokenization Is the Killer App for TradFi’: JPMorgan
As the platform ramps up, the focus would next move to tokenizing assets that are traditionally hard to finance, like money market funds, and using them for collateral purposes, said Lobban. Further down the road, Lobban expects to be doing blockchain-based issuances of an even wider range of assets, including tokenization of private funds.
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