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Graham Rodford

CEO & Co-Founder, Archax

Search every verified Graham Rodford interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. On 21 April 2026, Lingfeng Capital launched its Digital Venture Fund (DVF) on the London Stock Exchange Group's Digital Markets Infrastructure platform, with Archax making the fund available in tokenised form. Rodford stated that tokenisation improves issuances through cost savings, automatic cap table updates, and compliance gates, and that putting processes on chain can culminate in real-time NAV and full portfolio visibility. He also argued that retail investors often pay the most intermediated fees and should be allowed to trade directly if they have the capability. In March 2026, Archax announced an integration with Aptos to expand its range of real-world assets onchain. Rodford noted that Archax has worked with institutions including Aberdeen, BlackRock, Legal & General, and Fidelity, and that the firm can tokenise equity and debt. He said that when speaking to institutions, the focus has shifted from tokenisation to utility, such as enabling 24/7 exchange and borrowing against RWAs. Rodford added that a recent crypto selloff did not reduce appetite for RWAs, and that the RWA sector has "managed to separate same technology, different asset." He estimated that of the roughly 1.4 quadrillion in global assets, only 10–20 billion (excluding stablecoins) are currently tokenised, but predicted that number will "tend towards a quadrillion."

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“I am a big believer that every single asset class is moving on chain. And I think if you're not an asset manager moving your assets on chain, then you're going to be disrupted. Everyone wants everything accessible. I mean, especially with a with AI now, everything needs to be available digital over APIs and connected in. And a traditional fund in an analog way with a subredd document that's not transferable just isn'”

“I think um I think crypto and trading has been interesting for the last 10 15 years. I I I think um crypto currency trading this is nothing to do with crypto but it has brought about a lot of people that are more interested in financial markets than they were before and are performing analysis like they never have before. And at the same point, you had a bunch of crypto exchanges launched that were your exchange cust”

“I think ultimately it's going to improve everything. I think tokenization improves issuances from the issuers point of view, infrastructure point of view, and the investors. We talked about the investors. I guess from the issuers's point of view, a lot of people talk about the cost savings. They're not necessarily apparent right now because people are investing in this kind of new way of being. However, it changes a ”

“I just think of it as a record of ownership. So you can keep a record of ownership on a piece of paper, a spreadsheet, a database, or you can have it on a chain. And when you do it on a chain, then people think of that as tokenization. And when you've got a tokenized asset, it's the same asset as it was before. So if you're investing in the Lingfung Fund in tokenized form, you're still getting the Lingfung Fund. So t”

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