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Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, joins CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos at Bitcoin 2025 to discuss the stablecoin issuer's investments and regulatory outlook for the United States. Speaking from the largest crypto industry event of the year, Ardoino lays out Tether's broader strategy across stablecoins, Bitcoin treasury, and gold. He tells CNBC that commodity trading firms will be "the biggest driver" of stablecoin adoption in the next five years, while traditional financial firms entering the stablecoin space will be constrained by their reliance on high-fee customers.

Larry Fink, Blackrock CEO, goes on Bloomberg TV to argue that finance is at the very beginning of tokenizing virtually all assets – real estate, equities, and bonds – and sees a major opportunity in tokenized ETFs and funds that keep investors inside a digital ecosystem while bridging crypto-native users into traditional retirement products. Fink reiterates a long-term investing message: staying invested through crises since 2000 would have significantly outperformed cash, and even a modest 0.5 percentage point return advantage compounded over 30 years can materially boost retirement wealth, so younger investors should prioritize long-horizon equity ownership over short-term speculation.

David Tait, CEO of the World Gold Council — the organization that oversees the physical gold backing GLD, one of the world's largest gold ETFs — discusses gold's record-setting bull market, central bank accumulation, and the digitization of bullion markets. Tait's perspective is uniquely valuable: he led trading desks at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, UBS, and Bluecrest before becoming CEO of the WGC, where he is bringing gold bullion into the digital age from regulatory, provenance, ESG, and tokenisation angles.