Tokenization of assets is freight train coming to markets: Robinhood CEO
Robinhood Markets Inc., Chairman of the Executive Officer Vlad Tiev, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore on 2 October 2025 Thursday.
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The token of real world assets from stocks to real estates will spread to the financial markets around the world. Robinhood markets Chairman of the Executive Board Vlad TENEV.
“The tokens is like a load train. It cannot be stopped and finally eats the entire financial system.”
“I think most of the big markets will have a framework in the next five years,” he said, but 100% can take more than ten years, he added.
Tokenized asset is a digital representation of a real world, such as stocks, bonds or commodities that can be recorded and traded on a blockchain or distributed notebook.
In June, Robinhood began to offer more than 200 US stocks to customers in the European Union and gave them a new way to exposure to basic assets. The movement sent the stock to the record level at that time.
“I think it will be the assumed way to be exposed to US stocks outside the United States.” He said.
In the field of more jurisdictions, more undergraduate and regulatory clarity is waiting for the application to gain traction.
“I think this will come from Europe, but then will expand to the rest of the world,” he said.
On the other hand, TENEV expects the US to be completely to the token among the latest economies, as it calls the larger power of financial infrastructure.
The crypto industry for a long time predicted that the collectively specifying assets on Blockchain had promised more market efficiency.
And with Robinhood’s launch of stocks to your Token, there is more signal about the future of the real practice this year, corporate giants Morgan Stanley and Blackrock signal.
“I think crypto currency and traditional finance have lived in two different worlds for a while, but they will completely unite.” He said.
Stablecoins-as the first example of the existence of the real world that has been fixed to a commodity or Fiat currency such as US dollar, designed in such a way as not to fluctuate.
“I think crypto technology has a lot of advantages on the traditional way, there will be no distinction in the future.” He said.
