Episode #555: Bonds Without Borders: Tokenization, Sovereignty, and the Truth of Markets
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Stewart Alsop discusses tokenized corporate bonds and the implications of blockchain in finance with Akin Kadioglu.
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Akin Kadioglu, cofounder of Bondi Finance, to unpack the wild world of tokenized corporate bonds and what it actually takes to bring traditional finance onto the blockchain. They trace the regulatory maze from Bermuda's segregated accounts structure to the global competition between nation states racing to build the best tokenization frameworks, then widen the lens to cover the Genius Act and stablecoin politics, why America's biggest companies have stopped going public, the techno feudalism reshaping Silicon Valley, China's strategy of copying and scaling rather than innovating, and a deep dive into emerging market bonds, default risk, and why countries like Turkey, Mexico, and Indonesia might be more investable than people assume. Find Akin on Twitter at @kadiogluakin , and check out his work at Bondi Finance, bondifinance.io . Timestamps 00:00 Tokenization of corporate bonds and Bermuda's regulatory structure 05:00 Global tokenization frameworks and the Genius Act's impact on stablecoins 10:00 Anthropic's secondary markets, private capital, and why big companies avoid IPOs 15:00 Techno feudalism, Silicon Valley's…
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