Tokenized US Treasury Bonds Surpass $2 Billion!
Does this sentence (and its implications) seem incomprehensible to you?
Let's break it down together
1. US Treasury bonds
These are securities issued by the American government, purchasable by anyone on traditional financial markets.
You are literally lending money to the US government and in return for this nice gesture, you are promised a return (currently 3.8 %)
Treasury bills are simply acknowledgements of debt.
The US government is indebted to you (congratulations, you have a superpower in your pocket!)
2. “tokenized”
Literally: injected into a blockchain
Treasury bonds are transformed from a "virtual electronic" state (information on the hard drive of the Fed or a central bank) to a "cryptographic" state by being transposed in the form of digital assets (i.e. tokens) on a blockchain network.
We are talking about "tokenization of financial assets"
3. What for?
Let's simplify:
- Cheaper, lower costs for the issuer (government) and the holder
- Fewer intermediaries (savings on this side too)
- Excellent liquidity
- Unlimited fragmentation potential (a treasury bond is sold at least in tranches of $100 , with tokenization it is possible to divide this threshold by 10, 100, 10,000 to make the asset accessible to a wider audience)
- Transparent
- Ultra secure
- Auditable
- ...
To put it simply, there is SO much upside to using blockchain for financial assets that there is NO scenario where this technological approach will not prevail in the coming decade.
These 2 billion are therefore a very timid incursion into a market of 27,000 billion dollars just for US Treasury Bonds (and this without even counting other asset categories, such as indexes, shares, financial real estate, etc.)
In short and in conclusion, the tokenization of global financial assets and "The (real) next big thing" for blockchain and crypto
Does this sentence (and its implications) seem incomprehensible to you?
Let's break it down together
1. US Treasury bonds
These are securities issued by the American government, purchasable by anyone on traditional financial markets.
You are literally lending money to the US government and in return for this nice gesture, you are promised a return (currently 3.8 %)
Treasury bills are simply acknowledgements of debt.
The US government is indebted to you (congratulations, you have a superpower in your pocket!)
2. “tokenized”
Literally: injected into a blockchain
Treasury bonds are transformed from a "virtual electronic" state (information on the hard drive of the Fed or a central bank) to a "cryptographic" state by being transposed in the form of digital assets (i.e. tokens) on a blockchain network.
We are talking about "tokenization of financial assets"
3. What for?
Let's simplify:
- Cheaper, lower costs for the issuer (government) and the holder
- Fewer intermediaries (savings on this side too)
- Excellent liquidity
- Unlimited fragmentation potential (a treasury bond is sold at least in tranches of $100 , with tokenization it is possible to divide this threshold by 10, 100, 10,000 to make the asset accessible to a wider audience)
- Transparent
- Ultra secure
- Auditable
- ...
To put it simply, there is SO much upside to using blockchain for financial assets that there is NO scenario where this technological approach will not prevail in the coming decade.
These 2 billion are therefore a very timid incursion into a market of 27,000 billion dollars just for US Treasury Bonds (and this without even counting other asset categories, such as indexes, shares, financial real estate, etc.)
In short and in conclusion, the tokenization of global financial assets and "The (real) next big thing" for blockchain and crypto
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