The Tokenization Stack
How capital flows through tokenization. From institutional allocators to productive yield.
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Institutions
6Who deploys capital into tokenized assets
The biggest asset managers are already onchain. That part happened. The more interesting question is who's actually deploying capital vs. who launched a pilot, put out a press release, and went quiet.
Infrastructure
8Who keeps tokenized assets safe and moving
Fireblocks is the default custodian. Hidden Road sold for $1.25B. The margins in tokenization are in plumbing, not products, and the plumbing layer is consolidating.
Trading
1Where tokenized assets trade
Kraken, Coinbase, Robinhood all list tokenized stocks now. Distribution is still the bottleneck. Retail access might be what cracks it open. Nobody's solved it yet, but that's where the next winner comes from.
Yield
1Where tokenized assets become productive
Morpho, Aave, Spark, Pendle. This is where tokenized assets stop sitting in a wallet and start earning. A lot of the DeFi primitives needed to make this work at scale haven't been built yet. The yield layer is the reason institutions care about any of this.