Robinhood CEO: Tokenization Can Give Global Users Access to High-Quality Financial Assets, Industry Still in Early Stages

Odaily News: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev posted on X stating that tokenization is opening up high-quality financial assets from the U.S. capital markets to investors worldwide. While the current tokenization industry remains relatively small compared to the scale of global financial markets, its advantages—including 24/7 trading, asset programmability, composability, and self-custody—are becoming increasingly evident.

He noted that traditional financial infrastructure, built on fixed trading hours, closed networks, and multi-layered intermediary systems, is struggling to meet current investor demands. At present, founders, liquidity providers, traders, and infrastructure teams are all driving the growth of the tokenization industry, but broader adoption by the traditional financial system will still take time.