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Nik Kunkel
Founder and CEO of Chronicle Labs, a decentralized oracle protocol; formerly Head of Oracles at MakerDAO where he helped build the first Ethereum oracles behind DAI.
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Oct 1, 2026
70% of Tokenized Assets Falls Short on Transparency, Report Finds | Markets Outlook
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Kate IrwinHOST
Can you speak a little bit more to those key factors that the 70% of those tokens are going to need to do to step up their game? What kinds of things should they be doing?
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4:33Nik KunkelGUEST
You need to be able to have verification of the underlying holdings of a tokenized asset.
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4:40Nik KunkelGUEST
What is actually backing this? What is the asset composition? What is the value? There are always asset specific pieces of information.
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4:53Nik KunkelGUEST
Like if we talk about a tokenized stock, are there any dividends? Is there a stock split? Are there any kind of corporate governance actions? These are things that are very unique to tokenized assets that you never had with crypto native assets like Ethereum or Bitcoin.
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5:12Nik KunkelGUEST
And so this presents new challenges in how DeFi as a whole is going to be able to integrate and touch and properly risk manage these types of assets.
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Kate IrwinHOST
Do you see some of that SEC rules impacting folks' decisions to ultimately offer more transparency and verifiability? Do you think that the SEC sort of rules and different releases that have been put out, do you see that impacting institutions' decisions at all on the transparency side?