
Opinion by: Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen
Since data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/tokenization-explained” title=”null”>tokenization first gained mainstream attention during the 2017 initial coin offering boom and early blockchain projects aimed at digitizing assets such as equities and commodities, it has been crypto’s go-to pitch for modernizing finance.
For many, however, the conversation stops at tokenizing public equities, putting existing stocks onchain for fractional ownership and 24/7 trading. While these steps are nice to have, they’re a far cry from a revolution. The truth is that equities are already very…

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