Ondo Tops $4B and Tokenizes Anthropic as tZERO Eyes $350M SPAC

Tokenization is moving to the center of Wall Street. On this episode of CoinDesk’s Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ondo Finance Global Head of Institutional Matthieu de Vergnes who explains how Ondo became No. 1 on RWA.xyz with more than $4 billion in real-world assets. Plus, he provides a look at how Ondo plans to give global investors access to Anthropic stock on IPO day. Next, Securitize Chief Operating Officer Billy Miller breaks down the firm’s expansion to 25 tokenized U.S. stocks on Solana, including Disney, ExxonMobil and GameStop, and tZERO CEO Alan Konevsky unpacks the firm’s plan to go public through a $350 million SPAC deal. - Learn more at bullish.com. - Register for Consensus Hong Kong 2027 (February 1-3) and Consensus Miami 2027 (May 4-6) at https://events.coindesk.com/. - For more about CoinDesk Data & Indices, visit https://indices.coindesk.com/institutions. - Timecodes: 00:00 - Welcome to Public Keys 00:17 - Ondo Ranks No. 1 on RWA.xyz With $4B+ 00:50 - Ondo's Growth and 565K+ Holders 01:43 - Why Global Investors Want Tokenized U.S. Stocks 05:37 - Collateral, Portfolios and Perps: Ondo's DeFi Use Cases 07:20 - Ondo Intelligent Portfolios Top $50M 07:29 - Ondo Plans to Tokenize Anthropic on IPO Day 09:01 - Which Tokenized Equity Model Ondo Uses 11:11 - Securitize Adds 13 Stocks, 25 Now Trading on Solana 12:19 - Securitize's WSJ Ad and What Issuers Are Saying 13:54 - Synthetic vs. Entitlement: The Issuer Education Gap 16:20 - Will Investors Move Onchain? 18:01 - How Long Until All Equities Are Tokenized? 18:50 - What You Own With a Tokenized ExxonMobil Share 22:30 - tZERO Plans to Go Public in $350M SPAC Deal 24:13 - Inside tZERO's Tokenization and Derivatives Stack 27:03 - When Does Tokenization Go Mainstream? 29:11 - tZERO CEO: Tokenization Mainstream in "Under Five Years" - #digitalfinance #finance #bitcoin Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CoinDesk?sub_confirmation=1 CoinDesk is the leading digital media, events and information services company for the crypto asset and blockchain technology community. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/coindesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindesk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coindesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinDesk Newsletters: https://www.coindesk.com/newsletters CoinDesk Podcast Network: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jyIhkvAQhed8AWDZiPpSP Public Keys: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqYzRV10nfKfoTpFXZhTE Markets Daily Crypto Roundup: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sDXM8BlxsUqzL2IqmLqwE The Policy Protocol: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Fh8ffulAWcCqMu0uVuwoj