Chongwu Du

GM kings, I’m excited to share that I’ve recently joined @Securitize as its DeFi Growth Lead! Tokenization is no longer a theoretical promise — it’s becoming production-grade financial infrastructure. We are already seeing traditional institutional-grade assets move on-chain, not as experiments, but as live regulated products with real capital and real users. I believe tokenization is the future because it fundamentally changes how capital moves: • Assets become programmable. • Ownership becomes more accessible and composable. • Liquidity becomes continuous, not episodic. • Distribution shifts from closed systems to open financial rails. However, tokenization only reaches its full potential when it merges with DeFi — where composability, global liquidity, and full self-custody live. At @Securitize, I’ll be focused on bridging that gap by: • Bringing DeFi-native composability to traditional institutional-grade assets. • Expanding on-chain distribution and liquidity across money markets, exchanges, and public blockchains. • Partnering with DeFi protocols, stablecoin issuers, and infrastructure providers to make tokenized assets capital efficient and productive. • Helping issuers and asset managers access new on-chain demand in a fully-compliant and scalable way. Backed by industry giants like @BlackRock, @MorganStanley, @BNYglobal and many more, Securitize is uniquely positioned here. The company functions as a SEC-regulated broker-dealer, digital asset transfer agent, an industry-leading $38B digital asset fund administrator, and has issued some of the most meaningful tokenized assets with over $3B in distributed asset value live across 10 leading public blockchains today. My goal is to ensure these assets don’t just exist on-chain, but work natively in DeFi without compromising on regulatory compliance. If you’re building in DeFi, exploring RWA distribution, or thinking about how tokenization reshapes capital markets, I’d love to connect. It is time to Tokenize the World.