The hard part of tokenization is no longer issuing the token. It is everything that has to work afterward.
That was the thread running through The Capital Forum in Seoul today, which we ran with @CantonFdn, @IBM, and @Noves_fi for Korea's financial institutions and blockchain companies.
@0xthomaschou of @CantonFdn opened the forum, and @ryanyoon_eth laid out where institutional tokenized securities actually stand.
A panel with @nodeinfra CEO Youngseok Yang and Shinhan Asset Management put the real constraints on the table: global scalability, ramp control, and profitability, not the technology.
Hyunjun Park of @IBM presented Digital Asset Haven, and Ben Roy of @noves_fi closed on why a single transfer leaves behind several underlying records, and why that quietly decides whether an institution can reconcile, report, and audit at all.
Thank you @CantonFdn, @IBM, and @noves_fi for building this with us, and thank you to everyone who joined us.
Optimum team >>>
One thing I genuinely love about this team is how relentlessly they push.
Yesterday, @kentlinyy was on stage at @ethereumkoreaio alongside team members from @LidoFinance , and two of our node partners @dsrvlabs and @nodeinfra — these are type of event, where conversations turn into connections, and connections can turn into partnerships
And the crazy part?
Yesterday’s event ends, today there’s another one.
Which is most likely ongoing, @get_optimum team would be showing up again at CODED @KBW, alongside partners like Google Cloud, Four Pillars, LINE NEXT, Auros and more.
From the founders and co-founders to the team on the ground, everyone seems to understand one thing:
You have to keep showing up.
This is honestly something I envy about the Optimum team.
They keep pushing the product to the right people, meeting partners, creating conversations, showing up at events, and pushing the vision tirelessly.
@get_optimum team > >> 🫡
Seoul-based @nodeinfra has joined the @sphere ecosystem as a validator partner.
$400M+ in stakes across 10+ networks and 800+ servers since 2022. Zero slashing incidents. Now securing our compliance-native ledger from testnet through mainnet.
Details: https://t.co/jzdfarm4ja
Our public good @SuiNetwork GraphQL RPC endpoint is live 🔥
This endpoint is the latest addition to our full suite of public good Sui endpoints including RPC/gRPC, SEAL, and Walrus
Nodeinfra docs (endpoints)
https://t.co/shZKQkk1pA
Sui docs for GraphQL
https://t.co/SgJMmNNIJ7
We’ve raised a $5M seed round led by @variantfund and @cbventures to build Solana’s first market for term-based staking.
Staking is evolving beyond set-and-forget delegation. Validators and stakers need clear terms, predictable rewards, and real price discovery.