During an interview at last week’s New York Times DealBook Summit, Larry Fink, gave his thoughts on the current crypto crisis.Fink was referring to. BlackRock, like many other financial institutions, had millions of dollars invested in the company.
Some of the world’s biggest crypto companies, including Coinbase Global Inc and MicroStrategy Inc, have seen their values drop more than 25 per cent last month.But, despite being a sceptic of digital currency, the 70-year-old finance exec did haveSpecifically, the tokenisation of securities – whereby a digital representation of an asset is created on the blockchain. This could mean a decentralised and instantaneous authenticatation of its transaction and ownership history.
‘If we can have that distributed ledger that we know every beneficial owner, every beneficial seller, we all have our code of who’s buying, who’s selling, instantaneous settlement, it changes the whole ecosystem, you don’t need trust banks,’ Fink said.Southbank Research , told Metro.co.uk: ‘I saw the interview Fink did at the NYT Deal Book summit, and his point about most crypto companies folding has some merit to it.
‘In a sense, every crypto cycle is similar in that companies overstretch, are too highly leveraged and have poor business standards – that will lead to failures, just like regular markets.tokenisation of securities‘The way he spoke about things like instant settlement, transparency of buyers and sellers, voting, all things that crypto networks do now, is very positive for the longer term future of decentralised finance opportunities.