”Smart contracts, operating on blockchain technology, will be the medium for tomorrow’s investment products. Whether encoded for digital assets or traditional securities, smart contracts will allow for everything, from greater regulatory control to cross-border settlement, to be programmed into the contract itself. Arguably more significant than increased transparency and controls, smart contracts will enable fractionalization. Fractional ownership represents an unprecedented opportunity to bring trillions of dollars of traditionally illiquid assets, such as real estate and art, into the financial markets for trading in the same manner in which we trade stocks today.

Alf PoorCEO, Ideanomics