Bitcoin.com News Interviews Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize | Why Tokenized Commodities, Stablecoins, and Treasuries Are Booming | Bitcoin.com News Podcast
Sep 3, 2025
Carlos Domingo, CEO and co-founder of Securitize, dives into the booming world of tokenized assets, focusing on commodities, stablecoins, and U.S. Treasuries. He explains how blockchain is revolutionizing finance with on-chain transparency and instant settlement. The success of Apollo's $100M private credit fund highlights a shift toward yield-bearing assets driving crypto adoption. Domingo also discusses the convergence of TradFi and DeFi, making tokenized securities compliant and accessible for individual investors, as the future of global finance unfolds.
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Treasure And Dollar Tokens Are Scaling Fast
- Stablecoins and tokenized treasuries are the fastest-growing tokenized products because they are liquid and yield-bearing.
- Tokenized treasuries grew from about $200M to over $6B in a year, showing explosive adoption.
Tokenization Improves Efficiency, Not Liquidity
- Tokenization alone doesn't create buyers or sellers and therefore won't magically create liquidity for illiquid assets.
- It makes transfers and settlement far more efficient and enables new on-chain use cases that boost tradability.
On-Chain Treasuries Offer Unique Features
- On-chain issuance grants tokenized treasuries features like instant issuance, daily payouts, and peer-to-peer transfers.
- Those features integrate treasuries with crypto-native DeFi flows in ways off-chain treasuries cannot.