Crypto exec — TradingView News
The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market will continue to grow in 2026, fueled by adoption in emerging market economies, according to Jesse Knutson, head of operations at crypto exchange Bitfinex.
Emerging market economies experience “friction” in capital formation and attracting foreign investment, Knutson told Cointelegraph
Tokenizing real-world assets, the process of representing physical or traditional assets on blockchain networks, fixes this by enabling onchain capital formation and bypassing traditional financial intermediaries, he said. Kunston added:
“Emerging markets also tend to ‘leapfrog’ infrastructure that holds back developed markets, adopting digital rails, including stablecoin settlement, faster than markets…
