# Tokenization Opportunities Across Asset Classes  | European Blockchain Convention 9

- Channel: [European Blockchain Convention](https://streameth.org/european-blockchain-convention)
- Date: 2024-10-09
- Duration: 53:32
- Topics: European Blockchain Convention, Blockchain, DLT, Self Sovereign Identity, crypto, tokenization, token, digital asset
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-buDG6LqY8W4
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buDG6LqY8W4

## Description

The panel discussed the current state and future prospects of financial tokenization, highlighting its benefits in efficiency, transparency, and market access. Challenges included technical complexity, regulatory ambiguity, and identifying valuable use cases. 

Projects in real estate, bonds, funds, derivatives, and private equity were showcased, with a focus on near-term potential in digitizing private markets through fractionalization. While public networks are expected to dominate in the long run, permissioned private networks have an initial role.

Interoperability between blockchain networks, both public and private, is a crucial challenge. Despite skepticism from crypto market volatility, the overall sentiment was optimistic about blockchain's significant role in financial digitization, with cautious timelines for adoption.

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Speakers:
Steven Ehrlich | Forbes (Moderator) 
Adonis Nasr | State Street
Andrés Fondevila Marón | BBVA 
Christoph Hock | Union Investment
Barbara Schlyter | DWS
Diego Meillassoux | SettleMint 

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