Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR) Cantor Fitzgerald Global Technology & Industrial Growth Conference summary

Blockchain marketplace evolution and benefits

• Focus on building a blockchain-based marketplace for lending and equity, aiming for all assets to eventually trade on blockchain rails for efficiency and transparency.

• Blockchain enables real-time asset tracking, prevents double pledging, and increases transactional and liquidity efficiencies.

• Digital lien registry allows instant verification of loan status, enhancing security for lenders.

On-chain equity and investor empowerment

• Launched a secondary offering of blockchain-native common stock, emphasizing self-custody and direct issuer-shareholder relationships.

• On-chain equity allows programmable assets, direct rewards, and instant dividends, fostering viral communities.

• Investors can lend equity into pools, cross-collateralize, and benefit from direct economic participation.

• High interest from crypto, fintech, DAOs, and some large public companies seeking more investor empowerment.

Product ecosystem: Figure Connect and Democratized Prime

• Figure Connect streamlines onboarding for originators, providing access to a broad investor base and maximizing gain on sale.

• Acts as an outsourced capital markets unit, enabling efficient securitization and warehouse access.

• Democratized Prime opens prime brokerage access to a wider audience, leveraging DeFi liquidity for warehouse lending.

• DeFi and TradFi liquidity compete, offering instant onboarding and hourly liquidity, with a vision for a multi-billion-dollar tokenized warehouse marketplace.