Asset tokenization
Subject in Investing
Asset tokenization has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Vlad TenevBulgarian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood and founder of Harmonic
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
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 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
Alexander Wissner-GrossComputer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots
Wissner-Gross argues most tokenization use cases could be served by a centralized clearinghouse database without crypto.
“i think most of these use cases could operate perfectly well without any tokenization at all crypto unnecessary”
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 1:20:10
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 19, 2026 · 2 h 7 min
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev joins Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross to discuss AI liability, tokenization, Trump Accounts, agentic trading, humanoid robots and recursive self-improvement.