Wisdomproduct manager Jason Guthrie Said that the blockchain industry is in its “sales books” phase similar to the beginnings of Amazon, with a massive expansion to come, because financial services adopt a chain infrastructure to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
“Right now, as an industrial, we are selling books, but we are going to enter all these new spaces,” Guthrie said in Benzinga during the 2025 consensus, by establishing parallels between the current crypto state and the evolution of Amazon from bookseller to the Cloud Computing giant.
“Whoever saw Amazon in the 90s would never have imagined AWS.”
Wisdomtree, a traditional asset management company with $ 115 billion in management assets, has developed in digital assets in the last four to five years thanks to a dedicated division focused on the implementation of “real exhibitions on the channel”.
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Guthrie stressed that the Blockchain value proposal focuses on “smoothing of workflows and improving the effectiveness of capital and transparency”, while maintaining regulatory compliance.
The executive approached skeptics by highlighting organic innovation emerging from cryptographic space.
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“Do a little research and take a look at the amount of organic innovation we have seen,” he advised.
Rather than pursuing a complete disintermediation, Guthrie envisages a more nuanced development of financial services.
Guthrie predicts “a consolidation of service providers”, which should take advantage of the internet native infrastructure to provide fundamental investment services.
The executive stressed that the adoption of blockchain requires patience and progressive progress. “No technological innovation comes overnight,” he warned.
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