Asset tokenization set to boom, World Economic Forum says ahead of Davos

The think tank says regulatory clarity over the past year means DeFi will go mainstream in 2026.

The latest report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) says the regulatory certainty of 2025 has paved the way for the scaling of digital assets including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), deposit tokens, and asset tokenization.

Tokenization uses blockchain to create fractional, programmable, and tradable digital representations of real‑world

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