Is 2025 the Year Everything Gets Tokenized?

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The latest Talking Tokens podcast 🎙️

For this week’s Thursday episode, I interviewed Nathan Allman, CEO of Ondo Finance. 

We discuss bringing finance onchain, how 2025 may be the year of tokenization, what crypto institutions want from TradFi, tokenized treasuries markets and his multichain vision.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro, Nathan’s background into web3
5:20 – Founding Ondo Finance & the tokenization opportunity
8:40 – What does TradFi want when it comes to bringing finance onchain
14:39 – 2025: The Year of Tokenization?
24:34 – Ondo's OUSG fund with over $400M in asset value
31:13 - How to evaluate funds and tokenization
33:38 - The future of onchain finance
35:57- Advice for building in the industry

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Money and people moves

The biggest updates regarding startups that raised capital, moved money or did a little bit of both as well as market players who have left their web3 job or are starting something new.

1. DeFi Development Corp announces $24M private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing

2. Unto Labs raised $14.4M to build ‘Thru’ a “base layer blockchain”

3. Gui Bibeau to lead DevRel and education for Solana Foundation

4. Camp Network raises $25 million to help firms collect AI copyright royalties using blockchain (Fortune)

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