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Tokenized shares of private companies open a whole new world for investors. #VladTenev, CEO of Robinhood, sees a big market for tokenized private shares, allowing retail investors to participate in opportunities that were previously out of reach. He emphasizes 24/7 price discovery as the best way forward, making markets more transparent, accessible, and efficient. At Blue Lighthouse Trading Ltd., we share this vision, bridging traditional finance with the digital economy to create secure, user-friendly platforms for everyone. #Tokenization #DigitalAssets #PrivateMarkets #FinancialInnovation #Fintech #BlueLighthouseTrading

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Tokenization of private, private companies is still quite early. So what we demonstrated in Europe is that the technology works and we did it in the form of a giveaway to customers. But what hasn't been unlocked yet is real time 24/7 trading. And I think there's a lot of things that we still have to figure out, not just with regulators but also with these companies because you know, they, they rightly do have some concerns. It's a new thing. Not all of them like their stocks being traded in real time 24/7. And, you know, I think that we're gonna get to a point, I think in the next probably 5 to 10 years where it is ubiquitous. I mentioned in in my talk that tokenization is a freight train. It can't be stopped. And I think eventually it'll eat the whole global financial system. But it's going to take time for for everyone to be comfortable with it. So that's why we're pursuing multiple angles. We did want to be the first to tokenize open AI and SpaceX. And I don't know if there will be a Guinness Book of World Records for that one, but there should be. But, but what we're what we're doing now is we're working very closely with companies and making sure that they welcome the tokenization, they see real benefits for themselves and their customers. And we're also giving exposure to private companies through other means of the US as well, for example, Robin Hood Ventures, which we announced about a week ago. So Robin Hood. Definitely going to be a leader in private markets. The exact mechanics might be different in the future than they are today, but I think what's clear is customers want it. It's gonna be a big a big market and I think we'll be at the frontier. And how do you make sure that the price retail investors sees accurately reflects the private assets value in some of these cases when they may not be cooperate or or hesitant to to work with Robin Hood yet? But also, you believe that investors should have access to these private assets? Yeah. So this is this is definitely a topic that is being discussed a lot because there's actually some debate and ambiguity about what the proper value is. Is the proper value the price of the last round of of fundraising or let's say a company hasn't raised financing for many years and they've made progress and they just. Haven't sold shares to outside investors in a structured round. Sometimes they have secondary transactions at a much higher price. And of course, if the company was public, the price would be different. And I think one of the problems with retail access to private markets that needs to be solved is to to figure out how you can get liquidity and get out of your position at any time and and what price that would actually be at. You know, I'm of the belief that real time 24/7. Price discovery, what will be the most accurate long term way to do it? And and it's just a question of like how do we deliver that without making it, you know, a product or an experience that these private companies aren't interested in. And I think part of it will also just be time to. Robin Hood in 2021 rolled out this product IPO Access, which for the first time at scale gave everyday retail investors access to IPO's and we did it. We dog food it with our. Own IPO, which at the time was the largest retail allocation of any IPO that size since then and, and at first we would get skepticism when we try to offer this to other companies going public. But in the past few months, pretty much every large IPO of consequence is reaching out to us, asking us about their retail strategy. And we're seeing companies that are talking about how much they're giving retail exposure to their company and the IPO entrepreneurs are interested in it and the retail allocations are going up and up. But it took a few years. And I think for private companies, it'll be the same thing. The early adopters will be folks that are really, really passionate about giving retail exposure. But over time, everyone will see it as a as a core part of this.

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