Ian De Bode is the Chief Strategy Officer at Ondo Finance. In this conversation we talk about why we need tokenization, advantage of being on-chain, stablecoins vs cash, how people will make money, regulation, biggest risks, and should equities be trading 24/7?

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TimeStamps:

0:00 - Intro
1:56 - Why do we need tokenization?
12:34 - How people will make money
15:52 - Lessons from tokenizing a government bond fund
19:13 - Stablecoins that generate yield
24:28 - Behind the scenes of belief in tokenization
26:15 - What's the biggest risk?
27:59 - Do people really want to trade stocks on weekends?
29:05 - What Ondo Finance is building

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