423: Tokenizing Everything: Guest speaker Todd Ault on the $700T Revolution in Real World Assets

 EPISODE DESCRIPTION 

I sat down with Todd Ault III, founder of Ault.com, a man with 37 years in traditional finance who has seen the future , and it is fully tokenized. Todd walks me through how Ault Markets is being built as a Bloomberg-style platform for Web3, why he borrowed $50 million in DeFi in 20 minutes on Morpho, and why he believes every stock, bond, piece of real estate, and commodity will eventually trade on Web3 rails. We get into stable coins, the dominance of the US dollar, why AI is creating jobs not killing them, and what founders can do right now to tokenize their assets on Ault's platform. If you want to understand where institutional finance meets blockchain, this episode is for you. 

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 KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS 

• [00:00] Sam introduces Todd Ault III and frames the episode around tokenization and the RWA space

• [00:56] Todd shares his 37-year background in traditional finance and how he discovered Bitcoin around 2011

• [02:35] Why TradFi won't disappear overnight , Todd compares the shift to a generational standard-of-care change in healthcare

• [03:34] Ault Markets explained: a Bloomberg-style Web3 platform with a DEX, lending, staking, tokenized stocks, commodities, and more

• [05:28] How Ault integrates with DeFi Capital Markets, Universal Mint tokenization platform, and the Only Bulls wallet via Privy

• [06:50] Why stablecoins are still massively underutilized and what gets tokenized next , stocks, commodities, and eventually real estate

• [10:00] Todd's real-world DeFi story: borrowing $50 million against Bitcoin on Morpho in 20 minutes

• [12:25] Why Todd built Ault's own blockchain after being debanked 10 times in the US for Bitcoin mining

• [13:33] Bitcoin Max explained: trading Bitcoin down to the Satoshi level, denominated via a Swiss-based trust

• [14:06] The 98% US dollar dominance in stablecoins vs 55% in fiat , and why Todd sees dollar dominance continuing

• [17:25] How Ault uses AI for financial modeling, market making, staff accountability, and an integrated AI layer in Ault Markets

• [20:10] Sam shares how AI is actually increasing workloads for lawyers and why history shows tech creates more jobs than it destroys

• [23:38] Todd's goal to tokenize 100,000 assets over 10 years and grow TVL to $100 billion

• [26:28] How founders can use Ault right now to tokenize securities, raise capital, and list on the DEX

• [28:28] North Star metric: growing TVL, with 97–99% of all protocol revenue used to buy back the Ault token daily on a TWAP

• [29:50] Todd's key asks: traders, founders wanting to tokenize, and hiring in tokenization , contact todd@ault.com

• [33:15] Todd highlights Holiday as a standout payments innovation backed by Andreessen Horowitz

• [34:36] Ault's hybrid private equity arm: owning and planning to tokenize hotels, a crane company, and other hard assets