Francisco Cordoba
Marie Curie Research Fellow in Asset Tokenization at the Institute for the Future (IFF) in Cyprus. MIT Innovator Award for his contributions to blockchain technology. Metapurse NFT Fellow, Edmund Hillary Fellow in New Zealand. Speaker at Singularity University. Founded NaaS, 1st fintech in Colombia's Regulatory Sandbox. BlockDojo alumni in the UK. Published in IEEE and ACM. PHD candidate at UNIC.
Session
Tokenization promises to democratize capital access, but does the data support this? This talk presents empirical evidence across three layers: local-currency stablecoins enabling sovereign liquidity in Sub-Saharan Africa, credit default patterns from 2,741 tokenized loans across 5 blockchains, and Monte Carlo gas cost simulations measuring Ethereum's viability for investment instruments.