Welcome back to The Crypto Investar Podcast.
My name is Daniel Leinhardt, and today I want to talk about something very important that quietly confirms where crypto is actually heading not hype, not memes, not noise but real direction.
Recently, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, CZ, made a statement that didn’t sound flashy, but it was powerful.
He said tokenisation is the new big thing in crypto. And coming from CZ, that’s not a random opinion.
This is someone who has seen every cycle the ICO era, DeFi summer, NFTs, meme coins, and every collapse in between.
What CZ was really saying is simple:
Crypto is growing up.
For years, the industry chased price. Tokens existed just to pump, dump, and disappear.
But now the conversation is changing. Tokenisation is about taking real things services, assets, access, value and moving them onto the blockchain in a way that actually works.
This matters because regulators, institutions, and even everyday users are no longer impressed by whitepapers and promises.
1.They want to see usage.
2.They want to see flow.
3.They want to see tokens that move through an economy, not just sit on an exchange waiting for exit liquidity.
CZ didn’t say tokenisation is coming.
He said it’s already happening.
And if you think about it, this explains why we’re seeing serious interest in tokenised real-world assets, infrastructure projects, and utility-first ecosystems.
Crypto is no longer trying to replace the world overnight. It’s integrating into it, piece by piece.
For investors, this is a mindset shift. The next winners won’t necessarily be the loudest projects.
They’ll be the ones quietly building systems where tokens have jobs where they are used to pay, access, verify, support, and participate.
For builders, tokenisation is accountability.
You can’t fake real-world use for long.
If nobody uses your token outside speculation, the market eventually notices.
And for everyday people especially those burned by scams, like I was in OneCoin and Platincoin tokenisation represents something important: a chance for crypto to finally earn trust again.
So when CZ talks about tokenisation, he’s not predicting a trend.
He’s confirming a transition.
The era of empty tokens is fading.
The era of utility, structure, and real economic purpose is beginning.
And that’s the kind of crypto worth paying attention to.
This is Daniel Leinhardt, and this was The Crypto Investar Podcast.