{"id":76495,"date":"2023-03-31T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=76495"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:43:09","slug":"citi-estimates-tokenized-securities-market-at-4-trillion-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/citi-estimates-tokenized-securities-market-at-4-trillion-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi estimates tokenized securities market at $4 trillion by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By 2030, the market capitalization of security tokens will reach $4 trillion, and the volume <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc\">CBDC<\/a> in circulation \u2014 $5 trillion, of which half will be linked to <span data-descr=\"distributed ledger technology\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DLT<\/span>. Such findings are contained in Citi&#8217;s study, writes<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/224014\/citi-tokenized-securities-use-case\"> The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Citi GPS editor Kathleen Boyle described the tokenisation of financial instruments and real-world assets as the &#8216;killer app&#8217; among use cases \u2014 what the blockchain needs for a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>According to the expert, the potential has not yet reached mass adoption. Blockchain is a server-side infrastructure technology with no noticeable consumer interface; its innovations are less visible.<\/p>\n<p>According to Boyle, the industry has approached a tipping point, after which the potential of DLT will unfold.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Implementation will occur when the blockchain audience exceeds one billion users, who will not even realise they are using this technology. The situation will become possible thanks to the launch of CBDC, tokenised assets in games and DLT-based payments in social networks,<\/em> \u2014 she explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mass adoption will require ancillary tools \u2014 decentralised identity solutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-zero-knowledge-proof\">zero-knowledge proofs<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-blockchain-oracle\">oracles<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-cross-chain-bridges\"> secure bridges<\/a>. Legal aspects that ensure popularisation and scalability without hindering innovation are also important, the specialist noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Six to eight years remain until mass adoption. Momentum has shifted for the better \u2014 governments, large institutions and corporations have moved from studying the advantages of tokenisation to trials and proofs of concept,<\/em> Boyle explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blackrock-chief-highlights-tokenisation-benefits-for-capital-markets\"> stated<\/a> the potential of the technology to improve efficiency in capital markets.<\/p>\n<p>Moody&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/moodys-sees-blockchain-benefiting-municipalities\">noted<\/a> the potential for cost savings and greater transparency in their use by municipalities issuing bonds using blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2030, the market capitalization of security tokens will reach $4 trillion, and the volume of CBDC in circulation \u2014 $5 trillion, of which half will be linked to DLT. These findings are contained in Citi&#8217;s study, The Block reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1282,1622,167],"class_list":["post-76495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-asset-tokenization","tag-citi","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76497,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76495\/revisions\/76497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}