Tokenisation will do to assets what the internet did to information

In the early 1990s, the internet transformed how people created, shared and accessed information. Books, newspapers and CDs were digitised, indexed and distributed globally at near-zero marginal cost. Knowledge that was once siloed in physical or institutional silos became universally accessible, democratised and programmable. Today, a similar transformation is quietly unfolding in global finance: the tokenisation of assets. Just as the internet digitised information, tokenisation represents the digitisation of physical and financial assets, real estate, bonds, commodities, and more, onto blockchain networks. What was once static, illiquid and confined to narrow markets is becoming dynamic, fractional and globally accessible. Whilst traditional financial markets still dominate trillions in value, tokenisation promises to unlock additional liquidity, broaden investor access and reshape how assets are owned, traded and financed.

In the US, traditional equities are being tokenised and tra…