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Is 2024 The Year Digital Asset Tokenization Truly Begins?
2024 is poised to be the year when the tokenization of real-world assets truly takes off, according to Colin Butler, Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Labs.
Experts from traditional finance and crypto believe the tokenization market could reach tens of trillions.
Despite the current trickle of tokenization, the floodgates are expected to open in the coming years.
Contrary to common belief, the main barriers to widespread tokenization are not about trust, but technical bottlenecks, infrastructure limitations, and interoperability issues.
However, significant strides have been made over the past year to overcome these challenges.
Major financial players entering the market are driving tangible on-chain results and setting the stage for the next wave of tokenization.
Private equity funds are leading the way, developing new tokenization vehicles for investors.
Traditional finance giants like Hamilton Lane and JP Morgan are also investing in tokenized funds, paving the way for more structured instruments.
Private credit is a natural progression for tokenization, given its inherently digital nature and ease of on-chain migration.
Looking ahead, the next generation of tokenized assets will range from bonds and equities to real-world assets like art, automobiles, commodities, and fine wines.
Tokenized real estate offers a considerable opportunity, promising to simplify a traditionally complex market and introduce benefits like fractional ownership and rapid settlement.
These advancements will make investing more accessible and inject new liquidity into sluggish markets.
The expansion of tokenization will usher in new payment methods and necessitate industry-wide standards to ensure interoperability between products and markets.
Not only will this underscore the benefits of tokenization, but it will also foster the necessary trust for widespread adoption.
In 2024, the tokenization market is expected to transform from a slow drip to a flood, marking a significant change in the asset landscape. Read more here.
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How Are Zucoin And Splitchain Preparing For Tokenized Assets?
As we approach the anticipated pivotal year of 2024 in the world of asset digitization, it’s evident that significant transformations are imminent.
Colin Butler from Polygon Labs predicts a massive alteration in the digital assets environment.
This impending alteration isn’t restrained by trust issues, instead, it’s technical hurdles that pose a challenge.
Zucoin’s Splitchain network has focused on solving difficulties facing existing blockchain systems and is aiming to accelerate areas of the tokenization process, in part, by simplifying processes related to creating and managing digital assets, as well as enabling high-scale applications.
Unlike traditional blockchains, Splitchain operates without the need for blocks, reducing settlement synchronization delays and enhancing efficiency.
This streamlined approach, that avoids the conventional blockchain consensus mechanism, is inherently suited to handle the complexity and scale required for tokenizing vast arrays of assets.
As such, Splitchain could significantly contribute to solving interoperability challenges across industries, thus accelerating the tokenization process.
Tokenization isn’t confined to financial assets—it’s set to encompass a range of goods, from art and cars to fine wines.
Given their advanced transaction flexibilities, Zucoin could act as the transaction medium for these varied digitized assets.
Real estate tokenization is another promising area, offering fractional ownership and almost instant settlement.
Zucoin, working on the Splitchain network, provides a foundational “layer 1” solution that caters to this requirement, enabling seamless digital transactions.
Splitchain itself has a strong focus on the developer ecosystem and behind-the-scenes tooling, which will be an extremely important factor for widespread adoption.
It’s a solution for the coming future and an alternative to blockchain’s long-standing issues.
Stephen Covey once said, “Trust is the adhesive of life,” and it’s also a major demand driver in the digitization market.
The issue of trust, as underscored by Forbes, is crucial in the adoption of tokenization.
Splitchain’s unique peer-to-peer transaction validation process, where the truth of transactions is established without a consensus mechanism, offers a novel approach to building trust.
This method, coupled with the increasingly decentralized and transparent nature of Splitchain, could be instrumental in building confidence among those rolling out tokenized products.
Decentralization and self-management are at the core of Zucoin’s vision for the future of trust and independence and it’s clear this will be a key component in scalable tokenization efforts.
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Disclaimer: Of course, this is not advice, financial or otherwise. It’s also important to consider the risks and challenges associated with any potential benefits.