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Key Takeaways Tokenization expands access to financial opportunities for people historically excluded from global markets.
Digital ownership enables new funding models for entrepreneurs, creators and communities worldwide.
Tokenized assets unlock portable, tradable value that transforms industries from gaming to education.
When I first met my chief of staff, Bojana, she told me about her experience growing up in Serbia. Like many people outside the traditional centers of global finance, she never had access to the full range of banking and investment opportunities that people in New York, London or San Francisco take for granted.
Credit was limited, mortgages were difficult and opportunities to invest in global markets were almost non-existent. For Bojana, and for billions of others in emerging economies, traditional finance has always felt like a system designed for someone else.
This is why tokenization matters. The digital revolution did not just change how we do business. It redefined ownership itself. The most powerful innovation of our time is not simply that information, music or even money can be turned into code, but that these assets can now be represented and exchanged in ways that bypass the limits of traditional finance.
Tokenization represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to open access to people who have been excluded for decades.
Ownership today is no longer about physical possession. Tokenization makes ownership verifiable, portable and divisible. Consider real estate. In the past, a property deed in Belgrade or Lagos might have been locked away in a government archive, accessible only to banks or the wealthy. Now, that same property can be tokenized and divided into thousands of shares, opening investment opportunities to people everywhere. Someone in Serbia or Nigeria could invest alongside someone in London.
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