Not enough people are talking about the collateral utility unlocked through tokenization.
Tokenized collateral will release
$billions of stagnant, inert high quality, liquid assets back into the economy while ironically reducing risk.
How is this possible?
Usually, if you want to reduce risk, you actually increase collateral and decrease capital efficiency. This is intuitive; it makes sense. Cleared swaps often require 7 days of risk; uncleared swaps…10 days. Together, these pool are ~$1 trillion in size. (Not small).
Why so many days? Well, it comes down to a few things.
First, traditional markets close. If you have an insolvency going into a long weekend, you already lose 3 days.
Second, during a period of insolvency, typically there is an attempt to transfer or port collateral to a solvent counterparty. This is clunky.
Finally, liquidity matters as you delta hedge the book.
Through 24/7 markets, you get your 3 days back. And that transferability thing? Much easier.
Glad to see the 💡going on at the
@ecb.