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Let’s wrap things up today with some news that is less about the markets and more about innovation.
We’re specifically going to discuss MarketDAO, which just proposed a competition aimed at onboarding $1 billion in tokenized assets.
This is what that means:
The proposal, titled ‘Spark Tokenization Grand Prix’, invites innovators (i.e. developers) and issuers (i.e. banks, investment firms, etc.) to work together to build on the Maker Protocol.
Simply put, they want to make it super easy to invest in things like short-term government bonds, by letting regular people buy tokens that represent the bonds, instead of the bonds themselves.
Why invest in tokenized short-term bonds instead of investing directly in short-term bonds?
Plenty of reasons, but a few big ones:
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Fractional ownership: Investors can own a small piece of a bond, which is not normally possible with traditional bonds.
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24/7 trading: Unlike traditional markets with fixed hours, tokenized assets can usually be traded at any time.
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Global access: Tokenized bonds can be purchased anywhere in the world, meaning people in high-inflation countries can access financial opportunities in U.S. markets that they have never had access to in the past.
This competition is the latest in a larger trend towards the tokenization of digital assets.
So as the world continues to evolve, more and more innovation continues in the web3 space.
I’d love to see it!
