US Edition'Tokenization is Going to Eat the Entire Financial System' Says Robinhood CEO
Robinhood offers over 200 tokenized U.S. stocks in Europe and plans to tokenize real estate next, predicting tokenization will reshape markets despite legal challenges.
- During a Token2049 panel on Oct. 2, 2025, Vlad Tenev, chief executive officer of Robinhood Markets Inc., said tokenization is "like a freight train" that will eat the entire financial system.
- Earlier this year, Robinhood Markets Inc. launched more than 200 tokenized U.S. stocks in the European Union, leveraging clearer EU regulations while Morgan Stanley and BlackRock signaled growing institutional interest this year.
- RWA.xyz data shows the global real-world asset market is valued at over $32 billion with 411,126 asset holders, while as of Oct. 2 there are 223 asset issuers using blockchain.
- Legal advisers warned that OpenAI called Robinhood Markets Inc.'s tokenization of private shares `unauthorized` and John Montague cautioned about legal risks, while SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce stated tokenized equity offerings must obey federal securities laws.
- Next up for Robinhood is tokenizing real estate, as Tenev predicted most major markets will have tokenization frameworks in the next five years, with full adoption within a decade.
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has predicted that tokenization will “eat the entire financial system,” arguing that the shift of assets onto blockchains will erase the line between traditional finance and crypto. Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, Tenev said the transformation is inevitable and will encompass everything from equities to real estate. Robinhood has already begun pushing into this space. Earlier this year, the company lau…
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