How Superstate Is Bringing Wall St Onchain & Why Every Bank Wants To Be Tokenized | Robert Leshner

Robert Lesher is the Co-Founder &CEO of Superstate. In this conversation, we discuss Superstate’s $82M raise, the future of tokenization on Wall Street, tokenized deposits, deciding what gets tokenized, the most overhyped use case of tokenization, DeFi, Stablecoins, DATs and when capital markets will embrace tokenization. 

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Robert Leshner To Crypto In America

0:30 - What Does ‘Crypto In America’ Mean To Robert

3:45 - $82M Raise To Bring Wall Street On Chain

7:30 - What Is Not Being Told About Crypto & Wall St In The Media - Every Bank Is Interested In Tokenization 

10:30 - Worried About DTC/Tokenization?

16:00 - Token Holders as Share Holders 

18:30 - Deciding What Gets Tokenized

22:55 - Most Overhyped Tokenization Use

24:00 - Surprised There Hasn’t Been More Adoption 

30:10 - Tokenized Deposits 

31:50 - Stablecoins Are A Bigger Market Than Tokenized Deposits 

35:00 - Previous Struggles Of Working Within US Regulations

41:00 - Lending & DeFi In Tokenization

47:40 - TradFi in Crypto

49:40 - DATs

51:25 - Robert Is Watching When Capital Markets Embrace Tokenization

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