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Tokenization's Market Size Does Not Set Disclosure Needs

Potential assets, compliance and personal data are different questions.

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The tokenization argument associated with Chainlink invokes more than $867 trillion of potential opportunity and emphasizes rich data, compliance and interoperability. The amount is an addressable-market claim, not assets already tokenized or capital committed. More data is not automatically more trust: authorization, compliance and recovery each require specific information, readers and retention periods. Public reputation should remain separate from private authorization and recovery evidence. A large market estimate cannot justify collecting every identity field or making a participant's entire history visible.

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