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Tokenization is no longer just about putting assets on-chain. The more important question is what changes around them: ownership records, collateral, wallets, settlement, reporting and the operational infrastructure that makes financial markets work. That was the focus of the opening panel at #CryptoFinanceForum London, where our VP of Institutional solutions Jeff Rundlet moderated a discussion with Kim Hochfeld from @StateStreet, Robert Crossley from @FranklnTempletn, Nadine Teychenne from @Citi and Amor Sexton from @BlockdaemonHQ. Robert put the challenge clearly: “As an industry, we talk a lot about tokenizing real world assets. We don’t talk a lot about unlocking real world benefits.” Franklin Templeton has already spent five years measuring settlement cycles in seconds across tokenized money market infrastructure, running 24/7, 365 across 10 public chains and one private chain. But the panel’s bigger point was that tokenization alone is not enough. Amor compared it to the containerization moment in shipping: the real transformation did not come from the container itself, but when ports, ships, processes and surrounding infrastructure adapted around it. The same is true in finance. Nadine framed one of the key institutional questions: what is the tokenized asset legally, what does ownership mean, and where is the golden record – the off-chain transfer agency book, or the on-chain record? And Kim highlighted what tokenization can bring to institutional investment products: 24/7 access, collateral mobility, instantaneous settlement and distribution into the wallet infrastructure where investors are moving. The message from the panel was clear: tokenization is past proof of concept, but scale will depend on the legal, operational and reporting infrastructure around it. 📖 Read the full recap with panel recording below ↓ blog.cryptio.co/tokenization…