WisdomTreeβs Jonathan Steinberg says the firmβs tokenization push is nearing profitability, with $750 million in digital assets and long-term plans to modernize financial infrastructure.
At the Ondo Summit in New York, top asset managers said tokenization has moved beyond theory but warned that trust, education, and real-world utility are now the biggest hurdles.
βI think crypto starts to become invisibly more part of everyone's lives," said Tom Lee β the two appeared on a panel together Tuesday morning at the Ondo Summit in New York.
Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick trimmed his 2026 SOL forecast to $250 from $310, but says stablecoin micropayments could drive a longer-term surge as Solana moves beyond memecoins.
Despite cryptoβs promise of faster, cheaper transactions, the payments giants arenβt buying the stablecoin pitch, at least not in developed markets.
Thursday's decline showed that, despite hopes for being a macro hedge, bitcoin continues to trade like the riskiest of risk assets when markets turn lower.