On October 14, 2025, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink declared on CNBC's Squawk Box: ""...we are at the beginning of the tokenization of all assets..." As leader of the world's largest asset manager ($10 trillion), Fink's statement signaled to global markets that digital assets are moving into mainstream finance as institutional grade, regulated securities.
Additionally, Jeff Bussgang, co-founder & general partner, Flybridge Capital Partners and senior lecturer, Harvard Business School, as a panelist at the January 2026, Lowenstein Sandler’s VentureCrushFG in NYC, shared: “… SaaS spending at present is US$300 billion annually; with Agentic AI the market potential is US$2 trillion dollars.” Professor Bussgang estimates that by 2030, the labor displacement rate in America alone will be 7% to 10% as a result of the technology.