“I would argue traditional finance’s message for the future that trillions of dollars will be tokenized is completely disconnected from firms that are innovating with RWAs,” Quensel said in an interview. “TradFi’s understanding of a token as a database record doesn’t make any sense to DeFi. A token is not a database record; it’s code running on its own that’s executable, transferable, has its own logic, rights and possibilities.”