Exposure is not ownership.
In this episode of Crypto Hipster, Jamil Hasan sits down with Alan Qureshi of Black Lake to examine what happens when real-world assets move onchain โ and where the cracks still exist beneath the surface.
Because tokenization sounds cleanโฆ until you ask the harder question:
If the token movesโฆ
โฆdoes legal ownership move too?
This conversation explores the collision between blockchain infrastructure, legal systems, settlement layers, custody assumptions, and systemic trust. Not from the perspective of hype cycles or announcements โ but from the perspective of operational reality.
Topics include:
โข The difference between exposure and actual ownership
โข What happens when tokenized systems fail
โข The legal tension between wrappers and real assets
โข Why infrastructure matters more than narratives
โข The hidden assumptions inherited from traditional finance
โข What tokenization exposes about modern markets
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