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“Tokenization is coming.” Those were the words of SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce this week — and when you look at what has happened across global finance over the last few days, they suddenly look a lot more important.

In today's Daily Crypto Deep Dive, we explain tokenisation from the ground up and why something that sounds painfully boring could become one of the biggest stories in crypto.

US regulators are opening the door to tokenised stocks. The ECB is building infrastructure for tokenised financial markets. Mastercard and SoFi are moving billions of dollars of settlement onto blockchain rails. British banks have completed live transactions using tokenised deposits.

But the real question for crypto investors is simple: if trillions of dollars of traditional assets eventually move on-chain, which cryptocurrencies actually benefit?

We break down Ethereum, Solana, Chainlink, XRP, Stellar, Uniswap, Aave, Morpho, Arbitrum and Quant — including the role each could potentially play and why simply using a blockchain does not automatically mean its token increases in value.

We also examine some extraordinary forecasts from Standard Chartered, including long-term targets of $200 LINK, $100 UNI, $3,500 AAVE, $60 MORPHO, $40,000 ETH and $2,000 SOL , and explain the assumptions that would need to become reality for anything close to those numbers to happen.

Could Chainlink become the data layer connecting traditional finance to blockchain? Could tokenised stocks create a new era for DeFi? Could XRP, Stellar and Solana become settlement infrastructure for institutional assets? Or will the banks simply take blockchain technology, build their own systems and leave crypto holders wondering where the value went?

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