[Narrator]

Hello everyone, welcome back to the TokenMinds Training series.
Today we’ll explore how the upcoming Ethereum hard fork can improve infrastructure for financial institutions and tokenized assets, and why these upgrades matter for institutional blockchain adoption.

In this session we’ll look at two things.

First, how the next Ethereum upgrade improves the infrastructure that financial institutions depend on.

Second, how these improvements lower costs, speed up settlement, and improve reliability for tokenized assets and on-chain financial operations.

Financial institutions face four main challenges when using blockchain infrastructure.

Gas fees can be high and unpredictable.
Transaction processing can slow down when many operations happen at once.
Transaction ordering may change behind the scenes, which creates fairness concerns.
And compliance checks can expose sensitive user information.

The upcoming upgrade focuses on improving cost, speed, fairness, and privacy for institutional use.

These improvements directly affect how tokenized assets operate.

For example, a tokenized fund may need to distribute dividends, process transfers, and verify compliance on-chain.

Lower gas fees reduce operating costs.
Parallel execution speeds up transactions.
Fair block ordering improves audit reliability.
Zero-knowledge proofs allow compliance checks without exposing sensitive data.

Together, these changes make blockchain operations more practical for institutions.

The upgrade could reduce gas costs by roughly 78 percent for routine asset operations.

This means actions like dividend payments, transfers, and asset updates become much cheaper.

Since TMX Tokenize already runs these processes fully on-chain, issuers benefit from the lower costs immediately.

Parallel execution allows multiple transactions to run at the same time.

This increases network capacity and shortens confirmation time.

For institutions, this means faster settlement, better capital efficiency, and more predictable transaction processing.

Issuing a token does not automatically create a market.

TMX Tokenize connects assets to the Canton Network, where institutional capital already flows.

The network supports more than $6 trillion in assets under management and over $300 billion in daily transaction activity.

As blockchain settlement becomes faster and more reliable, institutional confidence grows.

These improvements make blockchain infrastructure more suitable for financial institutions.

TMX Tokenize provides built-in compliance controls, automated asset lifecycle functions, and multi-network support.

If you are ready to tokenize real-world assets as blockchain infrastructure improves, TMX Tokenize provides the platform to operate securely and at institutional scale.

Thank you for watching and see you in the next training video.