Quick Facts:
Crypto’s been around for nearly two decades, and in that time, we’ve seen narratives change.
Way back in the beginning, DeFi (decentralized finance) and TradFi (traditional finance) were supposed to be competitors.
DeFi would grow and develop into a rival financial system, providing all the advantages that TradFi lacked: transparency, accountability on the blockchain, natively-digital assets, and more.
Now, big banks and financial institutions are adopting crypto left, right, and center – and tokenized assets lead the way, particularly tokenized US treasuries, long since a favorite tool of the financial system.
For years, institutions such as Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon shunned crypto custody, citing regulatory and accounting burdens. Today, they are tokenizing money-market funds, short-term government debt and other liquid assets that naturally fit the blockchain model.
If you’re a large, multi-national corporation moving large volumes of cash and securities, those benefits are highly appealing.
But tokenization requires custody – holding both the underlying assets (the treasuries themselves, for instance) and the resulting tokens. That’s where the story gets interesting, as the race for custody heats up.
As tokenized assets scale, those fee revenues add up; if tokenized cash and Treasuries continue to grow from $8B now to reach $25-40B, annual revenues of $300-600M would flow into crypto custodians.
Each of those categories is expected to report even greater growth in 2025.
Designed with a Canonical Bridge, it enables $BTC to be wrapped, staked, and transacted on a high-throughput Layer 2, allowing near-instant payments, DeFi integration, and complex smart contracts.
By introducing ZK-based validation and cross-chain consensus, it unlocks thousands of transactions per second while maintaining a cryptographic link to the Bitcoin mainnet.
The platform integrates DeFi, token swaps, NFT storage, and advanced crypto presale access within a single mobile interface. It’s a potent combo of user-friendly simplicity with advanced on-chain functionality.
The project’s roadmap emphasizes interoperability across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain and Solana networks.
As self-custody and digital-asset security gain mainstream attention, $BEST is positioned to become the utility backbone of a wallet ecosystem. The presale, currently at $16.6M, offers tokens for $0.025835.
Chainlink explicitly links their own development to asset tokenization. At a recent conference, founder Sergey Nazarov demonstrated just how big the potential market is:
What’s happening with TradFi and DeFi may appear incremental. Tokenizing money-market funds isn’t flashy. But the underlying implication is profound: banks are positioning to become the custodians and operational backbone of the next generation of digital finance.
As always, do your own research. This isn’t financial advice.
