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Now, tokenization is being hyped as a way for retail investors to access assets that were once reserved for a select group of investors. Sure, a lot of regulations still need to change for this to become reality. But let’s be honest, large financial institutions have never been known to act out of pure altruism. https://www.forbes.com/sites/azeemkhan/2025/05/04/why-private-equity-is-betting-on-tokenization/

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Sharing some thoughts for Forbes Crypto this afternoon on why tokenization suddenly matters to everyone, from private equity giants to everyday investors. This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think tokenization from large financial institutions is really about creating opportunity for retail. It’s just as much about finding new liquidity avenues. It’s no secret that private equity has spent the past decade buying up everything, driving prices higher with each round. But eventually, there’s no one left to sell to, especially when so few people have access to these kinds of deals. So what happens now? Tokenization turns traditionally illiquid assets into tradable ones, unlocking new exit paths that didn’t exist before.

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Guess who’s back with a bang?! @azeem https://x.com/azeemk_/status/1917219076373717265?s=46

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The news is out! Couldn't be more excited to announce that I'm back in the ring as a builder. Coming on as a co-founder to Miden with our $25M seed fundraise being co-led by @a16zcrypto , @1kxnetwork , and @hack-vc My co-founder Bobbinis genuinely the most impressive person I've met in Web3 in the 13 years I've spent in this space. And this is no exaggeration. Brilliant, humble, and hustles like no other. Vitalik brought him into Web3 and got him working at the EF years ago on zk, then he went to Meta where he led the zk team, and is a Polygon cofounder as well. When I say the most impressive, I mean it. Privacy, scalability, and decentralization, with the ability to offer compliance. That's what separates Miden from just another blockchain. And we're going to be bringing institutions on chain with this. If you're a builder in this space, I'd love to hear from you. My DMs are open.

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3 casts that define the day & make me glad to be here: * @grace 's decentralized +1 drop & the ensuing fun w/ @nounishprof karaoke-gating the vote & @jc4p building a mini app. 🤣 Good luck Grace! 🫶 you'd be crazy not to take @bertwurst.eth | https://warpcast.com/grace/0x6b809ce8 * @mikos32.eth sadly got his degen hacked, but the community came with ~20K degen & kindness to encourage mikos & he took to video to say thanks | https://warpcast.com/mikos32.eth/0x075ddbf4 * @azeem published a Forbes article on Scottie Pippen & Crypto; Haven't read it yet, but this kind of content is exciting to see here; s/o @garrett or I would've missed it | https://warpcast.com/azeem/0x45d94067

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@azeem interviewed scottie pippen https://www.forbes.com/sites/azeemkhan/2025/04/24/more-than-a-game-scottie-pippens-mission-to-bring-culture-onchain/

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Shoutout to @azeem for interviewing Scottie Pippen about his career in the NBA, how he got intro crypto, and what he sees ahead in Web3 https://x.com/azeemk_/status/1915414742329426420

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Finally got my interview with Scottie Pippen up for Forbes Crypto! We had some great conversation dating back to his early NBA days where he told me almost no one invested in things, why it is he’s into web3 now, and where he’s trying to take his aspirations for the future in the space too. Laughed out loud when he didn’t want to talk about his comments around knowing Satoshi Nakamoto because Michael Saylor told him not to. And how following the lead of Michaels has worked for him before 😂😂 https://www.forbes.com/sites/azeemkhan/2025/04/24/more-than-a-game-scottie-pippens-mission-to-bring-culture-onchain/

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It’s true but there’s no one yet who seems like a real contender.

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and we're starting!! @octant design hackathon demosss

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I told @garrett I'd be back and posting more here. Don't even know where to begin. Feels like so much has changed.

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if you play music out loud on your phone at the gym you should be banned i’m sorry

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One of my 2025 goals has been to become as good at DeFi as some of the people I meet on here. If I think honestly about this industry, it's where I've spent the least time. I figured the best way to start going about this would be to start using protocols that I've been hearing about in the DeFi space and then to write about them. For my first attempt at doing this, I wrote about starting to stake $SOL with Inshallah.Fi. Going to stake some $ETH with them next now after the seamless experience. It made even more sense to go with this first because I've been spending time trying to explore the link between Islamic Finance and crypto can come together to bring the 2 billion Muslims on chain. A massive influx of capital is coming into crypto from the team(s) who solve this. Curious to hear thoughts and would love opinions on protocols I should try next. https://www.azeemkhan.com/p/shariah-compliant-crypto-bridging?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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What I aimed out to do in writing this article though was helping elucidate that successful memecoins in the longer term are actually much harder than they're made to seem by the general public. I'm not saying that the difficulty being unknown is intentional but I do believe people will be better off trading when they understand what it actually takes to plan out a good memecoin launch. Curious what everyone's thougts are after taking a look at this though. https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/12/12/memecoins-are-not-easy-money

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The biggest meta of 2024 has absolutely been memecoins in web3. Some people are fans. Other people aren't. What I chose to write about for CoinDesk on this one is that regardless of where you stand on memecoins, they're simply not easy money. Especially easy as the way people are made to believe when they think about trading them. Unlike other critics of memecoins, I'm absolutely in favor of people trading them as much as they'd like, and I do believe if you're good about them, they do seem like the easiest way to generate large amounts of personal capital very quickly. In light of all the high FDV, low float infra tokens that have launched this year at bloated valuations that leave no upside for retail, it only made sense that memecoins would take off. A place where retail could earn double and triple digit on their money in a short period of time.

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I actually wrote about this too https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/12/12/memecoins-are-not-easy-money Let me know your thoughts

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In the past week and a half there's been so many speculations as to what happened with Haliey Welch aka Hawk Tuah and $HAWK. From the moment the token launched, multiple things just didn't seem to add up to me. Instead of being just another account on here speculating for engagement farming though, I decided to see if I could actually tell the story with CoinDesk. That evening I reached out to overHere, and put together a story as to what happened without speculating too much either. Let me know your thoughts! https://t.co/RbqHfeTycD

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We quietly launched a new https://www.coindesk.com last Sunday. This was the culmination of 8 months of work and countless hours. Our engineering team went above and beyond, with the last 5 weeks of the push seeing many of them working 7 days a week and all night long in some cases. I'm thrilled at how well it has gone. We have released a hotfix daily and still have over 190 tasks and bugs to address, but the site is crazy fast now and our tech and tools are so much better than what we had before. I'm finally taking a holiday after working 11 days straight, which is nothing compared to what many of our engineers did. It's really nice to take a breather, though, and celebrate what we have done.

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