Ian De Bode is the Chief Strategy Officer at Ondo Finance. In this conversation we talk about why we need tokenization, advantage of being on-chain, stablecoins vs cash, how people will make money, regulation, biggest risks, and should equities be trading 24/7?

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TimeStamps:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:56 - Why do we need tokenization?
• 12:34 - How people will make money
• 15:52 - Lessons from tokenizing a government bond fund
• 19:13 - Stablecoins that generate yield
• 24:28 - Behind the scenes of belief in tokenization
• 26:15 - What's the biggest risk?
• 27:59 - Do people really want to trade stocks on weekends?
• 29:05 - What Ondo Finance is building