A new report claims crypto tokenization is a structural overhaul of market plumbing, not just an efficiency tweak.

Crypto Tokenization: The Hot New Thing?

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a new report with fresh warnings related to crypto tokenization. Shifting Wall Street’s trading rails onto blockchain-based systems could speed up financial crises beyond regulators’ capacity to react, even as the technology vows to reduce costs and wipe out settlement lags, Bloomberg says.

Tokenization is a process that moves assets and liabilities onto programmable ledgers, embedding settlement, margin and compliance into code. Tobias Adrian’s report claims that such “atomic settlement”, plus 24/7 markets and smart contracts can…