Maredith Hannon, Head of Business Development at Wisdom Tree Digital, joins Other People’s Money to discuss how tokenized real-world assets are taking off at a pace eerily similar to the early growth of ETFs. Crypto enthusiasts have long touted the potential for fund vehicles to be tokenized and put on chain. That story is quickly becoming a reality with rapid AUM growth and established players like WisdomTree with over $100B in AUM quickly launching funds from money market and equity to alternatives like private credit. Hannon also discuss the additional utility that on chain funds provide and how they are giving access to retail and institutional clients alike with platforms like WisdomTree Prime and WisdomTree Connect.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 The Rise of Tokenization
02:20 WisdomTree's Tokenized Funds
04:35 Comparing ETFs and Tokenized Funds
10:35 User Experience in Tokenized Assets
20:29 Regulation and Future of Tokenized Funds
25:12 Tokenized Private Credit
26:01 Liquidity and Redemption in Private Credit Funds
28:08 Secondary Market and Peer-to-Peer Transfers
29:34 Transparency and Daily Updates
37:10 Future of KYC and Identity Verification
43:12 Global Expansion and New Use Cases
46:10 Getting Started with WisdomTree Prime
