What Vlad Tenev has said about Asset tokenization

Tenev characterizes tokenization as an unstoppable force that will absorb the whole financial system.

“A freight train that can't be stopped and will eat the whole financial system”

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 0:07

Tenev expects 24/7 trading of individual private companies to arrive, likely outside the U.S. first.

“Obviously, individual private companies trading 24-7 is the North Star. I think we'll get there, probably outside the U.S. first”

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 1:24:55

Tenev argues cost and efficiency alone will drive the industry to adopt tokenization even absent consumer benefits.

“you could see just from cost and efficiency sake, the, the industry is going to adopt tokenization”

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 1:27:28