📢 Tokenization is no longer theoretical—it’s here, and it’s transforming finance!

In the latest #Tokenize Podcast, Hadley Stern and I spoke with Maredith Hannon, Head of Business Development for Digital Assets at WisdomTree.

🧠 We discussed about how tokenization unlocks liquidity, transparency, and accessibility for real-world assets like money market funds.

🧠 Maredith shared how WisdomTree is bridging TradFi and DeFi through innovation. With products like WisdomTree Prime (a retail app offering tokenized assets for everyday use) and WisdomTree Connect (an institutional platform enabling T+0 settlement), they’re reimagining finance.

🧠 The results? Faster settlements, yield optimization, and democratized tools that empower both retail and institutional investors to manage their assets seamlessly.

🧠 WisdomTree are pioneering Tokenization with 12 tokenized funds under management.

🧠 As Maredith highlighted: "Tokenization is a practical solution delivering new benefits today."

🚀 Exciting times for finance—bridging technology and tradition to shape the future! Check out the episode for more insights - links in the comments

Who issued the first crypto ETF ever? Read on..

When it comes to the crypto asset class, one part of the world often blindsides the entire world in the way it embraces cryptos - Latin America.

Brazil being the largest economy in the region, has had several successful milestones achieved in the crypto space, because of retail demand, institutional adoption and innovation friendly policies.

In this episode of Tokenize, I speak to Pedro Lapenta, Head of Research at Hashdex - the first crypto ETF issuer in the world and the largest crypto ETF issuers in Latin America.

Their crypto products are accessible across 7 countries (Brazil, US, Chile, Switzerland, Germany, France and Netherlands).

In this episode, Pedro also walks us through the regions pioneering efforts in making crypto more mainstream than in most other parts of the world. We also discuss the ETF products that Hashdex are working on.

The only question left to be answered is 'Wen SEC approved SOL ETF?'

Coco sold from Nigeria - is that something that could benefit from going onchain? What are the benefits? Why do we need a blockchain? And why Solana?

These were the questions I had for Henry Duckworth, Co-Founder of Agridex. Agridex are taking a refreshing approach to address the inefficiencies in the food supply chain. So what is the secret sauce?

They are starting with facilitating quick payments for farmers. They are not trying to get everyone on the incumbent supply chain onto their platform on day 1. That is a path many have tried and failed.

Instant settlements, getting robust financial services (finance, parametric insurance) for farmers as the next step, and then slowly opening the door for more supply chain participants to come onboard.

Solving farmers problems has been something very close to my heart for a long time, and I truly believe Blockchain based solutions can actually do that.

It was fascinating to hear Henry breakdown the problem statement and how he is approaching it. Enjoy the listen.