How to Use tokenize in a Sentence

tokenize

verb
  • The banks proved a decade ago that each of them could tokenize a deposit.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • However, an agentic model that makes tool calls must parse and tokenize the results of the call.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2026
  • When these workflows are tokenized, teams also know exactly when a transaction is settled, where funds are at any moment and who owns what.
    Ravi Chamria, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Now part of Stripe, Abrams argues that the next phase of growth could come from tokenizing non-dollar currencies.
    Angelica Ang, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • While expanding the field isn’t an option, what distinguishes this moment is its refusal to tokenize.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • JPMorgan are using blockchain to tokenize cash.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The jury is honored to platform a story that showcases the wholeness of a person in an industry and society so quick to tokenize.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The deposit balances on those rails are tokenized, allowing the bank-to-bank movements that ordinarily clear in days to settle in seconds.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The company also focuses on tokenizing real-world assets like bonds and real estate for agent trading.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • However, there are indications that tokenized real estate may be moving beyond its early stages.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • But for the AIs, text—or any information that has been tokenized, split into pieces, and turned into numbers—is reality.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Coinbase now envisions tokenizing real estate and private company shares.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Commodity exposure—whether physical or tokenized—challenges all three.
    Anthony Milewski, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Eco effort Sustainability here is integrated rather than tokenized.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Major financial institutions are now tokenizing money market funds and bonds to increase liquidity and settlement speed.
    Lindsey Argalas, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Sensitive information is anonymized and irreversibly tokenized to allow for secure matching before any collaboration takes place.
    Jon Jacobson, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Artists and musicians increasingly tokenize their catalogs.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • My company works with large telecom companies that are tokenizing infrastructure assets and enabling microtransactions that were not commercially viable a few years ago.
    Ravi Chamria, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • And banks have started to tokenize, or put in blockchain wrappers, money-market funds, which investors see as a stepping stone to larger institutional participation in decentralized finance.
    Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Banks are experimenting with tokenizing deposits.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Brickken has tokenized more than $660 million across 40 countries, according to the company's own figures, which are self-reported and unaudited.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Those include the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange, which are exploring tokenizing stocks, or putting company shares into blockchain wrappers.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Now, something similar is playing out in the brokerage industry as a result of another disruptive technology—blockchain—that is leading a growing number of companies to tokenize stocks.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The idea is that retail investors want to participate in hot names like OpenAI and SpaceX, and that tokenizing private equity would allow this to happen.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There is a growing clamor to use blockchain technology to tokenize commodities such as Ghana’s gold reserves, Botswana’s diamond reserves, and Zimbabwe’s platinum.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Its footprint in digital assets spans crypto ETFs, traditional funds tokenized on public blockchains and partnerships with major crypto industry platers like Binance.
    Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The question now is not if this market grows, but how quickly JPMorgan MONY tokenized cash reshapes the systems behind everyday finance.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • For almost fifty years, BET has been the home of Black cultural production, casting the Black community as the main character where it was otherwise tokenized or exploited for its creations.
    Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Both of these typically tokenize data into 1D or 2D sequences, which makes simple spatial tasks unnecessarily difficult—like counting unique chairs in a short video, or remembering what a room looked like an hour ago.
    ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
  • Trading platforms should notify the company of their intention to tokenize the shares and wait 30 days after the company receives the notice to start trading the token, according to an SEC spokesperson.
    Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

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