{"id":491401,"date":"2026-06-13T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:16:13","slug":"tokenization-mirrors-the-20-trillion-etf-boom-as-blockchain-and-ai-converge-new-ondo-exec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491401\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, new Ondo exec says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“ETFs were referred to as weapons of mass destruction,” Hoffman said, recalling the skepticism that surrounded the structure before it became one of the dominant ways investors access markets.<\/p>\n

When he joined the ETF industry in the early 2000s, the market held roughly $200 billion in assets, he said. Today, it’s nearly a $20-trillion global asset class, according to a PwC report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said tokenization is following a similar path, but much faster than ETFs.<\/p>\n

“Every market that digitizes gets larger,” he said. “And tokenization is really the digitization of capital markets.”<\/p>\n

Building for an agent-driven future<\/p>\n

For Hoffman, tokenization will become the foundation for what comes next: AI-driven financial services.<\/p>\n

He said he envisions a future where autonomous agents continuously monitor markets and allocate capital through professionally managed portfolios that update in real time as conditions change.<\/p>\n

“Our end state will be portfolios that are professionally managed, real-time and adjusting to market circumstances and data changes,” he said.<\/p>\n

To get there, the industry first needs tokenized assets, onchain prime-brokerage infrastructure and asset-management strategies that can be executed natively on blockchain networks.<\/p>\n

Ondo is building toward that vision, he said. The firm already offers tokenized U.S. Treasury products and plans to expand into stocks, ETFs and perpetual futures through its tokenized marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“ETFs were referred to as weapons of mass destruction,” Hoffman said, recalling the skepticism that surrounded the structure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125,62751],"class_list":["post-491401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-tokenization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}