Real-world asset (RWA) tokens can democratize access to investments previously inaccessible to retail traders, similar to how exchange-traded funds (ETFs) expanded retail access to financial instruments when they debuted in 1993, according to Christopher Perkins, president and managing partner of investment firm CoinFund.
“I believe tokens are the new ETFs,” Perkins told Cointelegraph in an interview. The executive said data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/asset-tokenization” title=”null”>tokenized RWAs, which trade data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/robinhood-tokenization-nyse-liquidity-shift” title=”null”>24/7 on globally accessible markets, reduce the information asymmetry that has typically kept retail…

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