Talking Tokens Tokenize Everything? The Real World Asset Debate in 2025
Sep 18, 2025
Neil Chopra, Head of Strategy at Fireblocks, and Jenn Senhaji, Head of Growth at Chronicle, tackle the emerging landscape of tokenized assets. They discuss how institutions are transitioning from curiosity to action, focusing on the growing demand for tokenized money market funds and stablecoins. The duo breaks down compliance challenges, the role of stablecoins in bridging TradFi and DeFi, and the critical need for unified market structures. They also delve into the potential of on-chain private assets and the timeline for enabling retail access to these innovations.
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Oracles Enable Verifiable Tokenized Assets
- Chronicle provides oracle price data and brings off-chain assets like tokenized money market funds on-chain with verifiable transparency.
- Their long experience (since 2017) focuses on data integrity and scalable on-chain price feeds.
Secure Wallets Are The Enterprise Foundation
- Fireblocks supplies enterprise-grade wallet, key management, and governance to connect institutions to blockchains.
- Their goal is to let any business securely interact with blockchains regardless of what is built on top.
From Nodes To Full Institutional Stack
- Blockdaemon evolved from node provisioning to a full stack for institutions including staking, MPC wallets, and DeFi tooling.
- They aim to provide a unified suite so financial firms can interact with blockchains without stitching many vendors.