Wu said that BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and COO Rob Goldstein wrote in The Economist that asset tokenization is entering an explosive period similar to the "early stage of the Internet" and will reshape the market at a speed that far exceeds traditional financial expectations. Real-world asset tokenization has grown by about 300% in the past 20 months, and blockchain has enabled a shared ledger to record and transact almost all assets in a more efficient, transparent, and verifiable way. Tokenization is still in its early stages, similar to the nodes of the Internet in 1996, but it may be moving faster than most people expect. In the future, investors may be able to hold all categories from stocks and bonds to digital assets in a single digital wallet.