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At the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, crypto moved away from price cycles and ideological debates toward a more practical focus: how blockchain is being used inside the global financial system.
Across panels, side events, and executive interviews, tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) emerged as the clearest signal of where crypto is heading next. With the value of tokenized assets now exceeding $22 billion, Davos framed tokenization less as an experiment and more as infrastructure in active use.
The shift was evident in both the tone and the participants. Rather than startups pitching concepts, conversations featured central bank officials, large asset managers, and executives from firms in the tokenization space. The emphasis shifted from whether blockchain belongs in finance to how quickly it can be scaled.
Panels such as “Is Tokenization the Future?” underlined how assets traditionally seen as illiquid, bonds, equities, funds, and real estate, are increasingly represented on-chain.
Executives from Coinbase and Ripple, alongside European Central Bank officials, described tokenization as a way to reduce settlement times, improve liquidity, and allow fractional ownership without rebuilding the financial system from scratch.
Institutions including BlackRock, BNY Mellon, and Euroclear confirmed they have moved beyond pilot programs and are deploying tokenized instruments at scale.
Data shared during the forum showed that the total value locked in tokenized RWAs has passed $22 billion, reflecting broader asset coverage and growing institutional participation. Ethereum currently hosts more than 65% of these assets, underlining its role as the main settlement layer for tokenization activity.
Regulatory clarity was repeatedly cited as the key factor behind this momentum. Frameworks finalized in 2025 in the US and parts of Europe provided banks and custodians with clearer rules on issuance, custody, and compliance.
In Davos, US President Donald Trump reinforced this direction by pointing to the GENIUS Act, which established a federal framework for payment stablecoins.
Stablecoins were described as the “plumbing” connecting traditional finance, decentralized finance, and tokenized assets. Rather than competing with banks, they are increasingly used for settlement, treasury operations, and cross-border transfers.
What Davos 2026 Signals for Crypto InvestorsFor investors, Davos 2026 suggested that crypto’s next growth phase may be less speculative and more structural.
Consulting firms such as McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group estimate that tokenized assets could reach between $2 trillion and $16 trillion by 2030. The focus on regulated products, institutional adoption, and market infrastructure points to a longer-term shift.
Tokenization’s rise at Davos indicates that crypto’s role in global finance is being defined less by volatility and more by utility, an important signal for how the sector may evolve in the years ahead.
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In [Part I], we dismantled a common assumption: that Web3 payments require a native stablecoin.
We established that InterLink doesn’t “mint” stability through a dollar peg. Instead, it enforces stability through settlement rules, identity verification, and controlled distribution.
Once you accept that premise, a deeper question emerges:
If InterLink isn’t optimizing for price stability through a stablecoin, what exactly are its token numbers optimizing for?
This is where most analyses break down — and where design, not speculation, becomes decisive.
The crypto industry has spent a decade perfecting the art of gambling.
Now, it’s time to start perfecting the art of survival.
Most token supplies are designed backwards — starting from price expectations rather than system behavior.
They collapse into “Price Anxiety,” obsessing over whether a supply is scarce enough to pump or when the next unlock will hit. This is the manufacture of early hype through artificial scarcity.
InterLink does not play the price-first game.
Its numbers are built to withstand time — not to excite markets today.
Here is the inversion most people miss:
Token supply does not set price. It sets access.
InterLink’s dual-token structure is built on this very principle.
These quantities aren’t signals to traders; they are load-bearing limits for human behavior.
Asking if 100 billion ITLG is “too much” misses the point. The real question is:
How many humans, actions, and years must this system absorb without breaking?
ITLG’s supply is intentionally expansive because its role is expansive. ITLG is not “money” in the traditional sense;
it is Proof of Participation.
To achieve global scale, the system must support:
A small supply would create scarcity at the participation layer, immediately giving an advantage to those with capital (gatekeeping).
Instead, InterLink allows ITLG to be abundant before it becomes valuable.
That value is earned later — through verification.
Raw ITLG is easy to earn. Verified ITLG is not.
Between the two sits a sophisticated qualification layer:
Activity ≠ Ownership. Only verified behavior converts participation into on-chain assets.
Supply is abundant.
Value is conditional.
If ITLG is about inclusion, ITL is about trust.
Settlement assets cannot be infinite. A currency that anyone can mint freely isn’t a currency — it’s noise.
Therefore, ITL is: 🚫
Every unit of ITL originates from qualified ITLG activity. It is allocated, not exchanged.
💡 Done.T’s Note
ITL is a defensive outcome — strictly capped at 10% of the total ITLG supply.
It is not designed to flood the market, but to anchor it. Because of this 10% constraint, every unit of ITL is released Slowly. Deliberately. Defensively.
InterLink’s token quantities don’t perform “Scarcity Theater.”
They enforce Role Separation 🔀
Price prediction is the wrong lens.
The real question isn’t how high it goes, but how long it holds.
InterLink’s numbers are defensive by design.
They don’t manufacture scarcity for the sake of a chart; they reserve scarcity for the precise layer where it is required for trust.
Participation is open.
Ownership is earned.
Settlement is protected.
InterLink’s token numbers do not predict price.
They enforce who is allowed to matter — over time.
🔜 Continue to Part III:
🔗 Retail vs. Institutions: Who Actually Holds the Power in InterLink?
About the Author
Done.T is a Web3 analyst specializing in the InterLink ecosystem.
He unpacks the underlying logic of the Human Node economy, translating complex system design into actionable, data-driven insights for a global audience.
Reference
🔗 [Chapter 2. The Deep Dive — Mechanics & Insights]
Disclaimer: This article provides a strategic analysis of InterLink’s publicly available infrastructure and documentation.
It is not financial advice. Readers should conduct their own due diligence.
[InterLink by Design #2] The 100 Billion Question: Why InterLink Built a Filter, Not a Pump was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse used a Davos stage at the World Economic Forum’s 2026 annual meeting to make a pragmatic case for tokenization: stablecoins are already the lead use case, momentum has shifted sharply in the US, and the industry’s job now is to deliver measurable benefits rather than tokenize assets for novelty.
Garlinghouse’s remarks came on a panel titled “Is Tokenization the Future?” after the moderator cited Ripple-linked traction: tokenized assets on the XRP Ledger surged more than 2,200% last year. From there, Garlinghouse largely aligned with the panel’s theme that tokenization is moving from pilots toward mainstream financial plumbing, while drawing a clear boundary around monetary sovereignty.
“I do think the first poster child of tokenization is really stablecoins,” Garlinghouse said, arguing that usage growth has been decisive. He cited stablecoin transaction volumes rising from “$19 trillion of transactions on stablecoins in 2024” to “33 trillion in 2025,” describing that as “about 75% growth” and adding that “many in our industry would say that’s going to continue.”
Where the discussion turned to a “Bitcoin standard” framing, Garlinghouse emphasized the political reality of state money. “Sovereignty of fiat currencies, I believe, is for many countries sacrosanct,” he said, before invoking a line he attributed to Ben Bernanke from a prior Ripple event: “Governments will roll tanks into the street before giving up monetary supply, giving up the control of monetary supply, which stuck with me as yeah, that makes sense.”
That worldview shaped how Garlinghouse positioned Ripple’s strategy. “At Ripple, we very much focused on building the bridges between traditional finance and decentralized finance,” he said, describing work “with a lot of the banks around the world” as the practical path to scale rather than attempting to displace existing monetary regimes.
Garlinghouse also framed 2026 as a momentum year, not just a technology year. He argued that the political climate in the US has turned materially more constructive after a period he described as open hostility. “The US, the largest economy in the world, has been pretty openly hostile towards facets of crypto and blockchain technologies,” he said. “And that has shifted dramatically, you know, starting with the White House… [and] helped elect a much more pro-crypto pro-innovation Congress, and you’re seeing that play out.”
But the Ripple CEO repeatedly cautioned that narrative tailwinds are not enough. “Part of the tokenization topic […] is like we shouldn’t tokenize everything just to tokenize something,” Garlinghouse said. “There has to be a positive outcome of efficiency or transparency […] otherwise it’s just like okay it’s a nice science experiment.”
On regulation, Garlinghouse reiterated his pragmatic tone, arguing that the push for US crypto legislation should prioritize workable clarity over theoretical perfection. “What’s going on in the US right now is a classic dynamic of when you create new law, it’s never going to be perfect,” he said. “I subscribe to the idea that perfection is the enemy of good.”
He pointed to Ripple’s own history: “a five-year battle with the US government being sued because of the lack of clarity” to underline the stakes, adding: “We are very much an advocate of clarity is better than chaos.”
When pressed on whether stablecoins should pay rewards, one of the live fault lines in US policy debate, Garlinghouse positioned Ripple as less directly exposed than some peers, while still endorsing competitive symmetry. “Ripple doesn’t have as much of a dog in that fight as others in the industry,” he said, but added that a “level playing field goes two ways,” arguing that crypto firms and banks should face comparable standards when competing for the same activity.
Garlinghouse also addressed energy concerns around blockchain-based infrastructure, pushing back on a one-size-fits-all critique. “Not all layer 1 blockchains are created equal,” he said, contrasting proof-of-work systems with proof of stake and other consensus models, and arguing that stablecoin activity is already skewing toward “more power efficient blockchains.”
Spirited dialogue during today’s WEF session (to say the least), but one important point of agreement across the panelists was that innovation and regulation aren’t on opposite sides.
I firmly believe this is THE moment to use crypto and blockchain technology to enable economic… https://t.co/4d3jNeNC4h
— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) January 21, 2026
On tokenization’s social and market impact, Garlinghouse reframed a question about speculation as a question about access. He said he sees the opportunity in “the democratization of access to investment less so on the speculation side,” pointing to the idea that smaller investors could gain exposure to assets that are effectively inaccessible at modest ticket sizes today.
At press time, XRP traded at $1.9554.
On Wednesday, Pantera Capital, one of the largest venture capital firms in the crypto industry, released its latest blockchain letter. In this edition, the firm reflects on the challenges faced in 2025 while projecting optimism for the remaining months of 2026.
Pantera begins by acknowledging that last year was not fundamentally driven when it came to returns within the crypto markets. It cites macroeconomic factors, market positioning, and structural influences as the main drivers that shaped performance, particularly for assets beyond Bitcoin (BTC).
The firm highlights several positive developments, including the passage of the GENIUS Act and the rise of digital asset treasuries (DATs). These factors contributed to a more stabilized market sentiment, especially with the onset of Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cuts.
However, the firm also describes a challenging fourth quarter in 2025, where a significant selloff on October 10 led to the largest liquidation cascade in crypto history.
Despite this and many other setbacks during last year’s performance, Pantera expresses optimism about the future, identifying several catalysts poised to drive growth in the coming months.
First and foremost, institutional adoption of blockchain technology continues to expand. Many enterprises are now integrating blockchain into their core offerings, with examples like Robinhood’s tokenized equities and JPMorgan’s initiatives.
Moreover, the firm distinguished that there has been a notable drop in barriers to entry for major financial players into the crypto market, including sovereign reserves and large asset management firms.
Pantera Capital also explored specific sector predictions for 2026. They anticipate that Real-World Assets (RWAs) will take off. They expect that treasuries and private credit could double, with tokenized stocks and equities experiencing rapid growth as well.
The firm further forecasts that prediction markets will attract acquisition interest as they consolidate around institutional infrastructure. The demand for sports-focused platforms is also expected to grow, expanding their presence in the market.
In terms of banking innovation, ten major banks are reportedly exploring the issuance of a consortium stablecoin pegged to G7 currencies, which could provide a compliant and risk-managed way for people and institutions to utilize digital currencies.
The macro perspective remains positive as well, with a significant percentage of Bitcoin now held by public companies, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and nations, indicating a shift towards compliance and institutional investment in the crypto market.
Finally, Pantera asserts that 2026 is poised to be a landmark year for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the digital asset space. Following a significant uptick in 2025, expectations for further growth in crypto-friendly listings are high, as companies look to tokenize assets and expand their portfolios.
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A personal look at how Bitcoin changed — not just in price, but in purpose.
Over the past few months, I’ve been actively learning about cryptocurrency.
Not as a trader chasing fast profits, but as someone trying to understand what Bitcoin actually became over time.
At some point, I stopped looking at charts and asked a simpler question — one that feels much more human:
What could you realistically buy with 1 Bitcoin in 2016,
and what can you buy with it in 2026?
In 2016, Bitcoin traded mostly between $400 and $900 per BTC.
Let’s take a rough average: around $600.
Back then, 1 Bitcoin could buy:
Bitcoin felt like spendable money.
Strange, experimental, volatile — but still something you could exchange for everyday things without much hesitation.
1 BTC ≈ a few hundred dollars.
Between 2016 and 2026, the world changed dramatically:
Bitcoin didn’t just survive this decade — it evolved alongside it.
It went through multiple market cycles, endless skepticism, and countless predictions of its death. And yet, it kept coming back.
By 2026, Bitcoin exists on a completely different scale.
Today, 1 BTC is worth tens of thousands of dollars — roughly in the range of
$40,000–$80,000+, depending on market conditions.
That’s not a marginal increase.
That’s a fundamental shift.
1 BTC in 2026 is no longer “money for purchases.”
It’s capital.
When translated into real life, 1 Bitcoin in 2026 can realistically represent:
These aren’t impulse buys anymore.
They’re life-level decisions.
This is where the real difference between 2016 and 2026 shows up.
In 2016, Bitcoin was mostly:
In 2026, Bitcoin is mostly:
Technically, you can spend Bitcoin.
Practically, most people choose not to.
Yes, Bitcoin became dramatically more expensive over ten years.
In some periods, its value increased by dozens — even hundreds — of times.
But the more important change is functional.
In 2016, the main question was:
“What can I buy with Bitcoin?”
In 2026, the question sounds different:
“How does Bitcoin fit into my financial life?”
That’s a shift from consumption to strategy.
Looking at Bitcoin through the lens of 2016 and 2026 made one thing clear to me:
Bitcoin isn’t just an asset that went up in price.
It’s an asset that changed how people think about money.
About control.
About optionality.
About the future.
And maybe that’s why the question
“What can you buy with 1 Bitcoin?”
gradually became less important than another one:
What does it mean to own one?
Over ten years, Bitcoin didn’t just change in price.
It changed its role — and, in many ways, changed us too.
2016 vs 2026: What You Could Buy With 1 Bitcoin Then — and What It Means Now was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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