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Wall Street’s new tokenization wave will stall without market readiness. A Swiss tokenized gold product failed because gold buyers rejected digital wrappers and crypto investors ignored gold. Infrastructure can fix custody and settlement, but adoption requires aligning blockchain’s 24/7 markets with legacy business hours, weekend pricing distortions, liquidity gaps, and always‑on compliance. Tokenization’s real value is in illiquid...

Online gaming is mutating from entertainment into a self-organising digital economy. AI agents now design worlds, manage resources and shape narratives in real time, while Web3 anchors ownership, governance and value on chain. The impact is profound: games become laboratories for autonomous markets, digital labour and creator economies. For players, this blurs play and work; for platforms, it turns gaming into infrastructure for fu...

In 2026, the proliferation of autonomous AI agents marks a paradigm shift from “reactive” tools to “proactive” systems. Whilst AI excels at mechanics and volume, it falters in moral ambiguity and real-world certification. Lawyers serve as “human oracles” - indispensable interpreters who provide the authoritative “human stamp” on digital triggers, ethical dilemmas and subjective context. By bridging rigid logic with nuanced judgment...

Programmable privacy reshapes financial infrastructure by enabling institution-grade confidentiality on public or shared ledgers. Banks, asset managers and market venues can prove compliance (AML, KYC, solvency, reporting) without exposing trading strategies, customer data or collateral positions; this could accelerate tokenised markets, unlock institutional adoption and reduce operational risk. At the same time, regulators gain cr...

When a seasoned lawyer loses his own business despite two decades of advising on major international transactions, something profound shifts. This episode features a former Legal Partner turned Entrepreneur who discovered that sophisticated founders face predictable blind spots—patterns that destroy innovative ventures regardless of legal counsel.

The conversation begins with his book "Blind Spots" but quickly moves into f...

In 1696, England attempted the world’s first tokenised property system, turning land into state-mandated legal-tender bills to rescue a collapsing monetary system. The National Land Bank failed, but its blueprint echoes today’s blockchain revolution. As the UK pushes toward a projected $4trillion tokenised real-estate market, the same questions return: can fractionalised property create liquidity without eroding trust? Three centur...

Public blockchains are moving from experimental rails to components of regulated financial infrastructure, but adoption remains constrained by legacy policy frameworks. Institutional tokenisation is gaining traction (Franklin Templeton, Apollo and others now issue blockchain-native funds) as forecasts suggest up to $5tn of tokenised assets by 2030. Yet regulatory models still draw rigid lines between “public” and “permissioned” net...

Tokenisation has long been judged through the DeFi lens of total value locked (TVL) but for real-world assets, equities, gold, treasuries (already supported by deep liquidity) TVL is a false signal. The real innovation is automation: the ability for on-chain smart contracts to execute real-world trades, route them through regulated brokers, confirm custody and mint legally enforceable tokens in seconds. These emerging hybrid models...

Reid Winthrop returns to explain how insurance isn't just a safety net—it's the key to unlocking blockchain's real estate revolution. Did you know that insurance has been foundational to modern finance since 1710, when Sun Fire Office property owners displayed plaques to receive fire brigade protection? (That's over 300 years of financial infrastructure we're talking about.)

Here's the fascinating part: insur...

Crypto recovery in the UK sits at a crossroads: increasingly sophisticated crime on one side, and rapidly evolving legal and policing capabilities on the other. Recovery-room scams remain rampant with fraudsters posing as experts to re-victimise those already defrauded, whilst social-engineering attacks and even violent “wrench attacks” continue to rise. Law enforcement, overstretched and bound by mandates focused on catching crimi...

What if you could slice up your house like a pizza and sell pieces of it?

That's essentially what tokenization is doing to financial markets right now.

James Tylee breaks down how blockchain is transforming everything from stocks and bonds to real estate and gold. The numbers are staggering: tokenized funds could slash operating costs by 23%, potentially saving the asset management industry $135 billion annually accordin...

Here's something that should keep you up at night: what happens to your cryptocurrency and digital assets when you die?

Reid Winthrop, managing partner at Winthrop Law Group, and David Parsons joined hosts James Tylee and Jonny Fry to tackle this increasingly urgent problem. As property, cryptocurrencies, and personal accounts move onto blockchain, the century-old systems that banks traditionally managed—insurance, escrow, and ...

Each year, global finance spends £58 billion on corporate actions processing, with costs rising 10% annually and automation below 40%. Reliance on manual validation, fragmented systems and inconsistent data flows results in widespread inefficiency, high risk and unnecessary expense. Recent industry initiatives using blockchain and AI, similar to the Chainlink-led collaboration involving Swift, DTCC and S&P Global, demonstrate t...

Digital disruption is the new business threat. Old continuity plans focused historically on fires, floods or server outages but, today, centralised failure can mean billion-dollar crypto collapses, regulatory shockwaves or code bugs that freeze assets overnight. Decentralised blockchains flip the script: redundancy and transparency take out single points of failure, making continuity a design feature, not an afterthought. G7 mega-b...

If US dollar stablecoins such as USDT or USDC take over London’s £5-50 million prime property market, the Bank of England could lose control over one of its richest asset classes. Foreign buyers could move capital instantly, bypassing sterling, whilst estate agents’ market in US dollars and settle via smart contracts in hours potentially on a peer-to-peer basis so removing escrow settlement risk. The upside? Hyper-liquid, globally ...

Could Britain accidentally become financially American? The Bank of England governor's shocking endorsement of stablecoins in the Financial Times has sparked a fascinating debate about the UK's potential "dollarization."

James Tylee, a Wall Street veteran with 20 years of algorithmic trading experience, joins Johnny Fry to explore how USD-backed stablecoins might extend American financial dominance to British shores. With the $250 b...

AI agents could be handling $1.7 trillion worth of your shopping decisions by 2030 – and Helen Disney, founder of Unblocked, explains exactly how this transformation will unfold.

In this fascinating return to Digital Bytes, Disney breaks down the evolution from traditional e-commerce to "d-commerce" – decentralized commerce powered by blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. She envisions a future where AI agents automati...

Stablecoins are increasingly flowing through global payment rails. But here is the catch: in the US, they are still not legal tender - only US coins and Federal Reserve notes qualify. The IRS even classifies stablecoins as property, meaning every payment could trigger capital gains tax. But winds are shifting. The proposed Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability for a Better Ledger Economy (STABLE) Act of 2025 could make USD sta...

OFSI’s July 2025 Cryptoassets Threat Assessment warns UK crypto firms that sanctions risk has shifted from fringe to frontline. The agency maintains suspected breach reporting is inconsistent and has been likely under-reported since 2022, with most issues arising inadvertently via delayed attribution, indirect exposure to designated persons (DPs) and weak due diligence. Three dominant jurisdictions pose threats: Russia, North Korea...