Foretoken: We're at Web3 Amsterdam!
A review of Web3 Amsterdam from Holland and the speech and panel discussion of our founder & CEO, Jason Rowlett. This week's new and analysis from the RWA markets will follow in a separate newsletter.
🇳🇱 AMSTERDAM, NL – Foretoken attended this year’s Web3 Amsterdam at the Circa Amsterdam venue in Holland and it was an amazing experience. Foretoken’s founder and CEO, Jason Rowlett, spoke at the event and participated in a panel discussion.
Jason’s speech, “The RWA Edge”, was all about the concept that he coins, “the Double Pedigree method of investing.” That is, investing in traditional assets along with their tokenized asset counterparts in order to better manage risk. You can watch the entire speech here.
This method has never been possible before the advent of the blockchain. At the end of the event he gave away his new eBook, The Double Pedigree Investing Method, that explains the method in more detail. You can download it for free here.
The conference was packed with thought leaders from real-world assets (RWA) markets, decentralized internet (web3), DeFi, and more. Foretoken met with many of these fine people.
In particular, we want to give a shoutout to Andrii Kovalevskiy, co-founder and CPO of Binaryx, a fractionalized real estate investment enterprise; Kristina Bohdanova, BizDev Manager at Arounda; Sharon Kodan, Head of PR and Partnerships at ICL.
Things learned at the event
RWAs are not a passing fad, they are actively re-shaping global finance. There are legal frameworks being legislated, blockchain technology implemented in developing countries, and significant investments being made in this exciting new space.
Many legal frameworks, such as the MiCA laws in Europe and other related legislation by monetary authorities in Singapore and Hong Kong, are coming into effect.
RWAs are developing in emerging markets, signaling a momentous shift in economic development in places like Africa and South America. However, these implementations do not come without significant challenges:
Lack of education about blockchain technology. (This is a factor in every country worldwide.) Being unlearned about blockchain and crypto can lead people to be fooled into scams or poorly managed investments.
“Digital land speculators” can come into and acquire a segment of the economy––such as tokenizing real estate or land––and resell it at less-than-market rates––to unsuspecting investors.
Governmental oversight––or the lack thereof––can lead to government monopolies on blockchain technology, lack of regulation empowering charlatans, or outright restrictions and bans on cryptocurrencies and co.
Brief announcements
We are making some changes at Foretoken to better distribute our content from our database:
Our unique market data covering comparisons between tokenized assets and their traditional/physical asset counterparts will now be available in report format for the time being.
Concourse will now be a market report feed with the same data visualizations that you are used to, rather than a live data feed. This is meant as a temporary change until we can get all of our backend code working to present the product at the highest quality.
Premium subscribers will have access to all reports in full.
Free tier users will have limited access to all reports.
The Foretoken Podcast is being rebooted to better support the content in a regular production schedule. Stay tuned!
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Until next time, groetjes en beste wensen van Amsterdam! 🇳🇱🌷