Institutional Digital Assets: The Future of Finance Is Here

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Annelise Osborne is the author of “From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets for Traditional Finance,” out in June 2024.

A “crypto year” is often said to pack one year of innovation into a time span that would normally take seven. Like dog years. That said, institutions don’t move in crypto years when adopting innovation. They test and slowly build behind the scenes and those projects are starting to bloom just like spring flowers and cherry blossoms.

Advances have been and are being made to capital market efficiency through the use of blockchain technology and digital assets. This is not a passing fad. More importantly, financial markets are global. Stablecoins open the window for 24/7/365 market hours. The institutional interest in stablecoins can be highlighted by settlement, treasury management, and cross border payments.

Figure Technologies is issuing an interest bearing stablecoin that is denominated as $0.01 per token. This stable would require KYC/AML whitelists and SEC approval. This structure appears similar to the Arca U.S. Treasury Fund, which issues ArCoin, a tokenized low-volatility security backed by U.S. Treasuries.With the world's largest asset manager tokenizing their first fund, markets are starting to pay more attention.

 

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