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🤝 A Huge Win for RWA Networking!
RWA World Newsletter - Oct 1, 2024
Ray Buckton
October 11, 2024
It’s official – RWA Day was a massive success! 🥳
Deep networking punctuated a day of insightful talks, exclusive alpha, and delicious food. Not to mention the afterparty! 🍻
🎯🔥 Rapid Fire Takeaways:
And it was the first of many – we’ll be sharing how you can secure your spot at the next one on the RWA Day X account, along with panel recordings and takeaways. 🎬
This week’s issue is all about spotlighting the amazing companies and builders that make our industry possible. 🔦
👏 Well-Deserved Credit
The masterminds behind the best RWA event on the market are RWA World’s Tyler Sherwin and RWA Builders’ Travis John. 🧠
These two galaxy brains put their heads together across countless hours of planning and execution to make this premier event a massive success for all attendees. They deserve a special shoutout for initiating an event series already defining our industry. Well done, gents! ⭐
🔨 Building Out Front
We had the pleasure of hearing from Kyle Dacruz, Director of Digital Asset Products at VanEck, who shared with us the company’s general sentiment and strategy towards digital assets. Specifically, we gleaned insights on how wholly owned subsidiary SegMint, headed by VanEck’s Head of Web3, Matt Bartlett, is redefining access to tokenized collectibles. 🧸
The underlying tech is, unsurprisingly, blockchain – something that was a core feature of Zivoe co-founder Thor Abbasi’s talk. Democratizing access to predatory loans while significantly improving APYs for borrowers, Zivoe is blazing a trail at the intersection of distributed technology and social good. Their fully compliant ZVE token is a powerful way to bake in real-world yield to any token portfolio. ⚖️
Speaking of portfolio diversity, it’s about time mediums of exchange became more diverse… inflation metrics make that much obvious. Thomas Mattimore, CEO of ABC Labs and builder at Reserve Protocol, is tackling that challenge head-on using the platform’s R-Tokens. These tokens can be backed by anything from DeFi yield to tangible assets, introducing much-needed diversity to today’s monetary landscape. 🧩
🔍 Tell < Show < Experience
It’s one thing to explain tokenization. It’s another thing entirely to experience it – that requires deep trust. Nomyx CEO Ubair Javaid and VP of Revenue Ivan Johnston know this firsthand. Their platform’s built-in identity management and upgradeable smart contracts meet institutions where they are with the technology they expect, making tokenization more than a possibility but a reality. 💻
To go mainstream, we need more than a handful of companies to experience tokenization. XDC Foundation’s Director Matthew Weisenthal and Executive Director Billy Sebell took the stage with Plug and Play’s Venture Associate Spencer Swanson to discuss their recent partnership and how it’s bringing decentralized applications to the masses. They even hinted at a BIG upcoming integration from a name everyone recognizes! 👀
On big news and names, tokenization pioneer Sanjeev Birari, co-founder of Zoniqx, joined OxbridgeRe CEO Jay Madhu to discuss their collaboration on tokenized reinsurance. A previously inaccessible market for the majority, now anyone can access attractive, long-term opportunities via SurancePlus, an entity redefining market access. With SurancePlus, investors can participate in high-yield reinsurance contract pools, historically reserved for ultra-high-net-worth individuals. 📜
👁️A Glimpse Into the Future
At this point, it’s clear that the future is tokenized. Even the world’s oldest and boldest blockchain is joining the party. Anduro, a tokenization platform supported by Mara, saw Product Lead Jullian Duran demonstrate the power of tokenizing assets on Bitcoin. Starting with tokenized spirits, the modular platform is working with Vertalo to bring it all on-chain. ⛓️
Compliance was a central theme at RWA Day, and RAZE Fintech is making it easier than ever to raise capital and scale your business model compliantly. Business Development Strategist Tim Stoddart offered insights on how the company is tackling the current web of compliance considerations and making it easy to tokenize anything. 🕸️
The event also featured DePIN, or decentralized physical infrastructure networks, which are cousins of RWAs. Moonbeam’s Head of BD, Ryan Levy, offered insights on the network's massive community, including Diode. CEO and co-founder Hans Rempel demonstrated Diode’s peer-to-peer capabilities and how it helps retain online sovereignty in an age of increasing digital encroachment. ✊
Of course, you can’t say “DePIN” three times without the man, myth, and legend Scott Foo of Peaq appearing to drop knowledge and alpha! He sat down with Aaron Goldblum, Product Manager at Mara, and Ray Buckton, Head of Research at RWA World, to discuss the future of democratized access to devices and the growing machine economy. 🤖
🚌 Drive Us Home!
Who better to take the wheel than Travis John? His decades-long experience with recreational vehicles (a $20 billion+ industry) makes him the perfect candidate to build Rovve, an RV loan tokenization platform redefining the industry. Did you know that in many cases, RVs count as second mortgages, making them highly tax-advantaged? Keep an eye on this one.
Overall, RWA Day was a massive success. Sponsors and attendees expressed their desire for more networking-centric, democratized access events like it, and we are happy to oblige! Check out our new events company and see how you can be the first to learn about future Syde Events, where the spotlight is on you.
Be sure to follow Travis John, Tyler Sherwin, and RWA Day to be the first to hear about what’s next for RWA Day and how you can be a part of the future of RWAs and tokenzied assets.
