Blockchain's BIGGEST Bottleneck (What The Market Is Getting Wrong) | High Stakes Ep. 25

What would it take to move $100 trillion in assets onto blockchain rails?

In this episode of High Stakes with Alex Nwaka, Dan Doney, Managing Director at DTCC Digital Assets, breaks down the real infrastructure challenges behind institutional tokenization. From clearing and settlement to liquidity depth, compliance aware token frameworks, and recoverability, this conversation explores what must be true for blockchain to support global capital markets at scale.

If you are an institutional investor, Web3 founder, or infrastructure operator navigating blockchain adoption, this episode delivers practitioner level insight into how legacy systems are adapting and where the next inflection point lies.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• “Blockchain cannot handle the transaction volume of all capital markets transactions.”
• “We record keep more than $100 trillion worth of assets and service $4 quadrillion worth of transactions, more or less on a yearly basis.”
• “Specifically, it's the use of a distributed ledger to track the ownership of an asset.”
• “Instead of the asset being in the system, the system is in the asset.”
• “Blockchain networks do not have deep liquidity.”
• “It must be possible to trace all the way from the issuer to the ultimate beneficial owner, exactly who the by name owner is.”
• “The second component that we insist on is recoverability.”
• “It is a digital twin of the cash that's in an account.”
• “This will be the first time this is a crossover where real market making, real institutional activity will now can park together in the same place that speculative activity is taking place.”

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