Centrifuge Appoints Jürgen Blumberg as New COO and CIO
Centrifuge (CFG) appointed Jürgen Blumberg as chief operating officer and chief investment officer for Anemoy, its asset management firm. The move coincides with rising interest in tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) among traditional finance sectors.
- Tokenized RWA market valued at $25 billion, projected to reach trillions within a decade.
- Centrifuge aims to connect blockchain technology with financial institutions, managing over $760 million in total value locked.
- Recent expansions include products on Avalanche and Solana, and an on-chain version of the S&P 500 Index.
- Blumberg has over two decades of experience in capital markets, previously with Goldman Sachs, Invesco, and BlackRock.
- He emphasizes the democratizing potential of tokenized assets for underserved regions and calls for traditional finance firms to adopt blockchain solutions swiftly.