Issue 1
Welcome Aboard: Let’s Bridge the Blocks
Five years of researching what blockchain can do for the world’s largest asset class, real estate, has taught me one thing: property won’t be the first asset class to get tokenized. Treasury funds and stablecoins already did.
What’s happening as traditional finance moves real-world assets onchain? How do we prepare? The tech stack is ready, the infrastructure is being built, and we’re finally seeing the first real traffic.
Today at a Glance
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Why I broadened beyond real estate
- The silent shift already putting billions onchain
- The real blocker: an education gap, not a tech issue
- How this newsletter will keep you ahead, minus the hype
Broadening my horizon beyond real estate
I’ve spent the last five years (and an almost-finished PhD I defend in June 2025) asking one question: can blockchain fix real estate? The work paid off academically: my peer-reviewed papers on blockchain & property have garnered 120-plus citations in under three years. Meanwhile, Treasuries, private blockchain platforms and stablecoins were quietly going live. That wake-up call is why you’re reading this.
Silent but massive shift
Within a few years, several asset classes and asset managers have taken a plunge: stablecoins hover around $230 B, tokenized MMFs about $7 B, and J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys has processed over $1.5 T of tokenized products on its private blockchain platform.
Education gap, not tech issue
If that scale surprises you, you’re not alone. After years in academia, I’ve learned the biggest roadblocks to adopting blockchain are not technological hurdles. It’s the education gap and aligning varying interests. Headlines swing from hype to scandal, and many busy professionals tune out.
What can you expect every week?
This newsletter exists to close that gap.
My goal is simple: to bridge the blocks, turning what happens on crypto rails into insights that the traditional finance teams can act on.
I’ll walk you, step by step, through what’s happening out there in real-world asset tokenization, minus the jargon.
Think of this newsletter as your interpreter in the middle: clearing out hype, AI noise and crypto slang into clear English so TradFi and onchain finance can start speaking the same language, with verified facts.
We’ll break down core ideas, track headline moves, and surface the currents most people miss. Some weeks we zoom out to question the fundamentals; other weeks we zero in on a bold idea worth testing.
Here’s my promise: every line is sourced, fact-checked, and short enough to read before your coffee cools.
If your team is already experimenting or just blockchain-curious, please reach out! I’d love to hear what you’ve achieved so far and what’s keeping you up at night about moving real-world assets onchain.
This Week in Tokenization, From AssetTokenization.com
Let’s learn and grow together with the evolving markets.
Until next time,
Anniina
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P.S. Forward this to anyone who still thinks tokenization is purely theoretical and spare them a week of Googling and AI fact-checking.