Matthew Le Merle

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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · The Autonomous Digital Economy Is Here · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

It's not sort of like their Visa or MasterCard and they've got to handle billions of transactions and do it in very efficient ways.

And clearly Visa and MasterCard have already committed to using blockchain.

So it's a long answer, Ryan, but I think all of this is coming to insurance.

but it's just not the first industry that's getting impacted.

And if you go back to the internet, it's the same thing.

I mean, if you remember, industries fell in sequence and they didn't all embrace electronic commerce at the same time.

And in fact, there are some industries which still are mostly mortar with very little click activity occurring around them.

And I think you should expect the same in this next phase.

As you were talking, it did occur to me that I literally talked, the last question I focused on property and casualty insurance, but obviously prediction markets, we could talk more broadly about risk and how these technologies can help offset risk.

But now going on to this new topic of tokenization.

So I find that for most small business folks and entrepreneurs, the best way to begin this conversation is the following.

Every asset in the world has an owner.

And the challenge is the proof of ownership is very fragmented.

And in often cases, oftentimes it's paper or close to paper.

So obviously in something like public equities, we digitalized the share certificate quite a long time ago with the Big Bang.

But if you invest in a fund, if you invest in a company, if you buy something of value, a watch or something like a Krugerrand, almost certainly your only proof of ownership is going to be some paper.

And that's not very efficient.

By the time you get to things like real estate, the proof of ownership and the title may require many, many days or weeks

to sort out and there'll be a lot of paper shuffling, a lot of notarization of documents, et cetera, et cetera.

The problem with that is it makes it very high friction for us to move the value, i.e.

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