In a recent conversation with John Collison, President of Stripe, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), shared a vision for the future of capital formation and company governance.
Armstrong predicts that these critical aspects of business and finance will increasingly move onchain, leveraging blockchain technology to tokenize everything from equity and credit to art and other assets.
This shift, he argues, will transform how companies raise funds and govern themselves, ushering in an era of programmable, decentralized systems that promise greater efficiency, transparency, and accessibility.
Armstrong’s central thesis is that all forms of fundraising—whether public or private, equity or credit—will eventually be tokenized.
Tokenization involves representing real-world assets or financial instruments as digital tokens on a blockchain.
These tokens can be traded, divided, or programmed with specific rules, enabling…
