In this episode featuring Software Engineer Haseeb Qureshi, you’ll learn about the four potential killer apps of blockchain technology: dark web and black market payments, digital gold, payments (macro and micro), and tokenization.
Asset Tokenization
Traditional Asset Tokenization
In this episode featuring Stephen McKeon, you’ll learn:
- Why in the coming years, assets will become increasing tokenized via blockchain protocols such as Ethereum
- How the tokenization of traditional assets such as fine art or commercial buildings will unlock massively valuable new markets for trading
- How the concept of asset ownership may evolve in ways not yet imaginable
- How asset tokenization is already changing industries like venture capital by offering LPs greater liquidity
Thoughts on Tokens
In this episode featuring 21 Co-Founder and a16z Partner Balaji Srinivasan, you’ll learn:
- The basics of what a digital token is, how various tokens differ from each other, and why tokens have surged in interest lately
- Why tokens have only recently become possible due to years of digital currency infrastructure
- What exactly you receive or hold rights to when you purchase a digital token
- Why tokens are such a compelling alternative to traditional financing
- How token models enable fundamentally new types of business models that could power the next wave of internet companies