Today's episode with @Mcdtv, Co-Founder of @inside_r3, dives into:
- How enterprises like Bank of America and Wells Fargo are leveraging blockchain
- Why R3 chose to build on @Solana
- Why fixed income and alternative assets could be tokenization’s next big market
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:32 How Institutional Blockchain Has Changed
02:55 Why All Markets Will Move Onchain
04:08 Why Todd McDonald Started R3
06:25 Buying Bitcoin in the Early Days
07:37 How R3 Got Major Banks Onboard
09:56 What Crypto Gets Wrong About Banks
12:10 How Banks Are Using Blockchain Today
13:38 Why R3 Changed Its Strategy
14:00 Moving From Private to Open Networks
14:24 Why R3 Chose Solana
16:29 Bringing Corda to Solana
16:52 What Banks Care About in a Blockchain
18:18 What R3 Got Wrong
19:00 Lessons From R3's Early Network Strategy
20:05 Why Open Networks Win
22:05 What's Next for Banks Onchain
23:07 The Opportunity Beyond Tokenized Dollars
24:05 The Trillions in Tokenization
26:17 What Tokenization Actually Means
27:26 Bring the Assets to the Money
27:57 The State of Tokenization
28:57 What Has Changed in Five Years
30:12 What Banks Want From Tokenization
31:04 What's Next for Tokenization
31:59 Todd's Advice for Builders
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