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Private capital markets are growing rapidly, but their underlying infrastructure remains heavily fragmented.
Now disconnected systems across broker dealers, transfer agents, and funding platforms continue to create compliance risks as well as friction on an operational level and investor confusion while at the same time, SEC Chair Paul Atkins told a cheering crowd in DC yesterday that going forward, only digital securities will face strict SEC oversight.
While not yet a formal rule, Atkins says a massive proposal is coming within 2 weeks, promising an innovation exemption to make it easier for crypto firms to operate.
And separately, private capital markets infrastructure platform Coreincide announcing this morning that it's turning its core chain stack into an interoperability hub.
This will function between regulated private markets and major blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, and this is meant to scale real world asset.
Organization and trading.
Joining me fresh off this announcement and live at the New York Stock Exchange is Oscar Jofre, co-founder and CEO of KoreInside.
Oscar, good morning.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Yes, thank you.
So first and foremost, when it comes to core inside, tell us why you decided to focus on private markets.
Well, the private markets, what people don't realize it's actually 10 times bigger than the public markets for the last 3 years in a row.
It's raising twice as much capital.
And there are hundreds of thousands of companies raising that capital, but it's all being done fragmented.
It's scattered.
It's not as efficient as our public markets, so the time to modernize it has come.
And speaking of which you're fresh off the announcement that came this morning and when we talk about trends that are happening across digital assets, of course regulation matters here in the US, but tell us about the innovations that are actually taking place and the impact it will have.
Well, the latest announcement is only going to accelerate things.
We've already seen NASDAQ, ICE make the announcement tokenization.
It's no longer one of those fringe things on the side.
It's reality.
It's here today.
So the real impact now is that the existing ecosystem of participants need to start innovating their businesses to participate in that world because we still need them.
I think this is one of the things that People don't realize we can't just wipe out the entire capital markets, private or public.
We need that expertise in order to drive the next innovation level, but we're now in that step.
You know 10 years ago we were so fringed out in the dark side of the forest.
We're now here.
We now have the regulators embracing it and we have institutional embracing it.
So what do we need?
We need infrastructure.
It's time we start talking about.
What is everything going to operate under in order to move in that path that we also want?
Yes, and infrastructure is the key word here and this is a space that you have been entrenched in.
And when we talk about the regulatory landscape, it's not just the US but also other economies.
And when we think about the application, the use cases of digital assets, it was born out of necessity for a lot of economies here.
So give us an understanding of what's under the hood when it comes to.
So what's happening now is that you're right, the other economies rolled out what we call the wild wild west.
It had to.
It had no choice.
But ironically enough, the role is now switching over to a regulated format because at the end of the day we still need to protect investors.
So investors need to be protected.
So I'm already seeing it firsthand.
Kenya is now adopting our infrastructure to roll out to allow.
The digital assets and for everybody to participate compliantly.
We're not saying do not innovate.
We're just saying we need a layer of compliance and I think the entire crypto industry about 2 years ago finally clued into that and look where they are today.
Look at Coinbase, Binance, Kraken.
They're accelerating at a rate that nobody ever, but that's because their shift was don't go against it.
Embrace it and move forward.
Yes, so one word that comes to mind is maturity, and that's hard to believe, but that is what is happening when it comes to this space.
So what are innovations that are taking place that you think will drive the next stage of growth?
So the next stage of growth has to be, you know I keep saying infrastructure.
I mean it has to be because right now what we have, we have a lot of participants creating islands, pods.
And the problem with pods is that eventually we all need to sail only one way and until we all come together, so that's what we saw 10 years ago.
We've quietly been building it.
We're an infrastructure that's inclusive.
We include everyone.
We're non-competitive.
We're not a broker dealer.
We want everyone to participate very much the way public companies sit on DTCC.
We want we're the DTCC for the private, so that's where the two come in.
So we're seeing companies like Templum, T0.
They're becoming full stack of everything.
Great.
What are you sitting on that's going to allow the movement of information and money so it's to the benefit of the company and the investors and that's where.
Blockchain tokenization, and we need to include everyone on the tokenization scale.
I feel today there's one question that has to be asked.
Does the retail investor have access to that real world asset that everybody is tokenizing?
And the answer is no, it's only institutional until today.
We bring it to everybody.
Yeah, and Oscar, to the extent that you can share with us today while I have you here, tell us about exciting developments that are on the horizon for Coincide.
So for Corinci now our entire focus is bringing to the private capital markets what we call the holy grail distribution, distribution meaning what there's $330 trillion sitting in RIA brokerage accounts.
We have figured out the secret sauce, how to connect the privates, which are hundreds of thousands of them out there that need access to this pipe, and we now have it.
We're now bringing that.
We have 11.2 trillion assets under management that desperately wants to invest in privates, but you know it's all about compliance.
It's all about being compliant.
All the way through making sure everybody gets paid, that took us over 2 or 3 years to get that model down and now with blockchain and all that, it's just going to be accelerating.
We are in one of the most exciting things happening in the private capital market and I don't call it a disruption.
It's a movement that just needs to flow nicely so we can help companies raise capital.
Eventually stay private or go public on NASDAQ or NYC.
Well, Oscar, we will have to leave it there for today, but hopefully we'll have you back soon.
Thank you so much for joining me and thank you so much for sharing all of your insights today.
Thank you.
