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    Tom Zschach: Trillions Are Coming Onchain And Institutions Are Ready (Acceptance Layer)

    07/11/2026 | 21 mins.
    Tom Zschach says anyone still doubting tokenization is already behind: the institutions are here, the rails are live, and the shift is happening now.
    Three years ago nobody would have thought about carrying a token over the Swift network, and now the DTCC's tokenization service is live.
    Live from Link:NYC in Hudson Yards, the former Swift Chief Innovation Officer explains why he founded Logos, and why institutions holding $100 million in stablecoins or tokenized assets need to move from trust me to prove it. He breaks down why the real decision sits with whoever accepts a token, from custodians to DeFi lending protocols to marketplaces, and why tens of thousands of tokenized assets will need evidence that can be published once and accepted everywhere. He also explains why privacy will matter, why he sees almost endless opportunities to invest as trillions of dollars come onchain, and how Logos' first design partners span stablecoins, payments and Securitize.
    Tom Zschach is Co-Founder and CEO of Logos and the former Chief Innovation Officer at Swift.
    The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 Intro
    03:43 From Trust Me To Prove It
    07:00 Building At Global Scale
    10:04 Why Privacy Will Matter
    13:14 Publish Once, Accept Everywhere
    16:26 Endless Opportunities To Invest
    19:42 Logos Is Building The Acceptance Layer

    Guest Socials
    Tom Zschach X: https://x.com/TomZschach
    Logos X: https://x.com/Logosfi

    Partners:
    Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data.
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    Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.
    Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/
    ---

    𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀:

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    𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘍𝘪 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳, 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴.
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    Diego Perez de Ayala: Wall Street Is Going Onchain (Frictionless)

    04/11/2026 | 32 mins.
    Diego Perez de Ayala says the industry chased the wrong bet for years, and the trillions are in rebuilding the financial system itself.
    Diego, known as Solana Legend, joins Andy and Rob live from the Empire State Building to lay out the thesis behind Frictionless. They talk about why the nouns of Wall Street are already onchain but its verbs are still early, the race to get licensed before the regulatory window shuts, and why tokenization today looks like stablecoins in 2014. He also covers the incumbents' Kodak dilemma, why chains that ignore capital markets won't survive, and what could justify trillion-dollar layer ones.
    Diego Perez de Ayala, known as Solana Legend, is Co-Founder of Frictionless, backing onchain trading and capital markets infrastructure including Backpack and Titan.
    Finance is being rewritten on the internet, and only one in twenty of its functions has been built.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 Intro
    01:21 Web 3.0 Narrative Proved Largely False
    04:08 Funding The Verbs Not The Nouns
    06:10 Licenses Race Before The Window Shuts
    10:24 Tokenization Looks Like 2014 Before Tether
    13:00 How Wall Street Actually Comes Onchain
    15:26 Companies Earning A Billion A Month
    17:27 Incumbents Face The Kodak Dilemma
    21:29 Missing 24/7 Trading Is A Scam
    23:47 Chains Ignoring Capital Markets Are Cooked
    26:18 Do Layer Ones Justify Trillion Valuations
    30:10 Return Dispersion Lets Investors Outperform
    32:30 One Out Of Twenty Verbs Built

    Guest Socials:
    Diego Perez de Ayala X: https://x.com/SolanaLegend
    Frictionless X: https://x.com/FrictionlessVC
    Frictionless Website: https://frictionless.capital/

    Partners:
    Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data.
    ---
    Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.
    Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/
    ---

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    The Rollup Disclosures: https://goodidea.ventures

    DISCLAIMER: Investing in cryptocurrency and DeFi platforms comes with inherent risks including technical risk, human error, platform failure and more. At certain points throughout this channel, we may earn a commission or fee as a sponsorship, if this is the case we will always make sure it is clear. We are strictly an educational content platform, nothing we offer is financial advice. We are not professionals or licensed advisors.
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    Kristen Mierzwa: The Russell Is Going Onchain 24/7 (Insider Take)

    03/11/2026 | 20 mins.
    Kristen Mierzwa says every big traditional asset class now wants what digital assets have had all along: 24/7 markets. FTSE Russell has priced digital assets around the clock since 2019, and now it's working on taking equities, fixed income, commodities and more to 24/7 too.
    Live from Link:NYC in Hudson Yards, FTSE Russell's Head of Digital Assets explains how Hyperliquid's weekend oil trading changed the conversation, why index providers and exchanges need to be the trusted source of price for 24/7 markets, and how the Russell indices are already going onchain, from OTC swaps on the Canton Network on the Russell 2000 to the DTCC tokenizing constituents of the Russell 1000. She breaks down why demand for 24/7 trading is coming from outside the US, why FTSE Russell is expanding its stablecoin coverage from 12 to 95 and pricing from decentralized exchanges, and how tokenization lets one product hold Bitcoin, gold, silver and the biggest tech stocks side by side. She also explains why believing in tokenization means believing in the layer ones it runs on.
    Kristen Mierzwa is Head of Digital Assets at FTSE Russell, an LSEG business.
    The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 Intro
    03:04 Every Asset Class Is Going 24/7
    07:45 How The Russell Indices Go Onchain
    10:52 24/7 Demand Is Coming From Outside The US
    14:07 Stablecoin Coverage Grows From 12 To 95
    17:21 Trillions In Index Assets Can Come Onchain
    20:24 Tokenization Runs On Layer Ones

    Guest Socials:
    Kristen Mierzwa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-mierzwa
    FTSE Russell X: https://x.com/FTSERussell
    FTSE Russell Website: https://www.lseg.com/en/ftse-russell

    Partners:
    Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data.
    ---
    Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.
    Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/
    ---
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    Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcast
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    The Rollup Disclosures: https://goodidea.ventures

    DISCLAIMER: Investing in cryptocurrency and DeFi platforms comes with inherent risks including technical risk, human error, platform failure and more. At certain points throughout this channel, we may earn a commission or fee as a sponsorship, if this is the case we will always make sure it is clear. We are strictly an educational content platform, nothing we offer is financial advice. We are not professionals or licensed advisors.
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    Jeremy Schwartz: Today Is Nothing Like The 2000 Tech Bubble

    02/11/2026 | 35 mins.
    Jeremy Schwartz says today is nothing like 2000. The expanded tech sector trades around a 22 forward P/E, Tesla is the only big stock priced like the dot-com era, and for public market investors there's no real bubble. If anything, he says, AI adoption hasn't even reached the national anthem.
    On Convergence, our series with WisdomTree, WisdomTree's Global Chief Investment Officer explains why markets are climbing a wall of worry with reasonable valuations, why he doesn't see a dramatic Fed hiking cycle, and how people across his firm built around 60 apps in five months by vibe coding, which makes him want more people using these tools, not fewer. He breaks down WisdomTree's push into tokenization, from tokenized gold to a tokenized money market fund that can now trade 24/7, and why tokenized ETFs are coming as the SEC pushes progress forward. He also previews the new collaboration with Return Stacked ETFs and explains why a few percent in Bitcoin makes sense as a diversifier in multi-asset portfolios.
    Jeremy Schwartz is Global Chief Investment Officer at WisdomTree and co-author of Stocks for the Long Run with Professor Jeremy Siegel.
    The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 Intro
    04:16 Today Is Nothing Like 2000
    07:25 AI Is Still In The Earliest Innings
    12:03 Vibe Coding 60 Apps In Five Months
    18:36 From Gold To Tokenized Gold
    24:39 Tokenization Is Coming For Your Checking Account
    32:25 Tokenized ETFs Are Coming

    Guest Socials:
    Jeremy Schwartz X: https://x.com/JeremyDSchwartz
    WisdomTree X: https://x.com/WisdomTreeFunds

    Partners:
    Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data.
    ---
    Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.
    Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/
    ---

    Website: https://therollup.co/
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    DISCLAIMER: Investing in cryptocurrency and DeFi platforms comes with inherent risks including technical risk, human error, platform failure and more. At certain points throughout this channel, we may earn a commission or fee as a sponsorship, if this is the case we will always make sure it is clear. We are strictly an educational content platform, nothing we offer is financial advice. We are not professionals or licensed advisors.
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    James Seyffart: Tokenization Is Still So Early, We're In The Second Inning

    01/11/2026 | 19 mins.
    James Seyffart says we are so early in the tokenization build-out, like the second inning. Tokenized stocks are ramping aggressively, following the same path stablecoins took a few years ago, and the total addressable market is absolutely massive.
    Live from Link:NYC in Hudson Yards, Bloomberg Intelligence's senior research analyst explains why the DTCC's tokenization service and the biggest banks and broker-dealers testing onchain rails are only just getting started, and why he expects most stuff to be tokenized in 10 to 15 years, often without investors even noticing. He breaks down why tokenized ETFs and tokenized stocks are two bridges between TradFi and DeFi that will eventually merge, how skeptics at Bloomberg went from dismissing blockchain to quoting Hyperliquid and Polymarket prices, and why Zcash has become one of the most talked-about assets among institutional clients. He also lays out why he thinks Bitcoin reaches $10 trillion by the end of the decade.
    James Seyffart is a Senior Research Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.
    The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 Intro
    03:35 Tokenization Is Only Just Getting Started
    07:18 Bloomberg Skeptics Now Quote Hyperliquid
    13:09 Institutions Are Intrigued By Zcash
    17:31 Bitcoin Is Heading To $10 Trillion

    Guest Socials:
    James Seyffart X: https://x.com/JSeyff
    Bloomberg Intelligence X: https://x.com/BBGIntelligence
    Bloomberg Intelligence Website: https://www.bloomberg.com/

    Partners:
    Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data.
    ---
    Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.
    Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/
    ---
    𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀:

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    Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcast
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