New Blockchain-Based Digital Marketplaces
NEW BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DIGITAL MARKETPLACES
In this week's newsletter we return to a theme that we have discussed on and off for a decade and which is central to the emergence of a global Autonomous Digital Economy. The digitalization of monies, commodities and assets leveraging blockchain infrastructure and the emergence of new blockchain-based digital marketplaces. This theme has driven many of our investment decisions over the last decade, and many of you have joined us in specific past investments.
In this newsletter we will cover six topics:
A. How Blockchain-based digital marketplaces are displacing traditional marketplaces.
B. The benefits that the new blockchain-based versions bring.
C. Digitizing traditional financial products and opening up new products and services.
D. Six specific examples to build your understanding:
Securitize tokenized money market funds
Tether tokenized gold and other commodities through Hadron
Kraken tokenized public equities
Bitwise tokenized public equity funds
Kalshi tokenized sports contracts
Polymarket tokenized prediction markets
E. Implications for financial markets globally.
F. Implications for our investors.
One point we should cover as we get started, is that we are heavily invested in this theme. All six of the examples we will use are portfolio companies, and we seek additional exposure to each if we can get it at attractive valuations.
Let's get started.
A. How Blockchain-based digital marketplaces are displacing traditional marketplaces.
For more than a decade, we have said that digital monies, commodities, and assets are inevitable, and that all of the world's financial infrastructure must therefore be upgraded. That future is no longer theoretical. The new marketplaces are here today.
Bitcoin and Stablecoins have already demonstrated that money can move globally, around the clock, at Internet speed. Now the same architecture is being applied to government securities, money market funds, commodities, public equities, and investment funds. At the same time, blockchain-based marketplaces are enabling entirely new financial products, including prediction markets that allow almost any objectively verifiable future event to become continuously priced and traded.
What we are witnessing is the beginning of a fundamental redesign of the infrastructure through which the world owns, trades and settles financial assets.
Traditional markets were built for an earlier technological era. They generally operate during defined business hours, rely on multiple intermediaries, maintain separate ledgers at different institutions and frequently require days—or at least significant operational processes—to complete transactions that consumers increasingly expect to happen instantly. The first generation of financial digitization changed how investors interacted with markets without fundamentally changing the underlying infrastructure. Online brokerages replaced telephone calls to brokers. Electronic exchanges replaced trading floors. Mobile applications placed those electronic markets in everyone's pocket. But the underlying architecture largely remained recognizable. Investors still hold securities through layers of brokers and custodians. Exchanges match buyers and sellers during prescribed trading sessions. Clearing organizations stand between counterparties. Transfer agents maintain ownership records. Banks move cash. Custodians safeguard assets. Different institutions maintain different databases that must continually be reconciled with one another.
Blockchain-based marketplaces start with a different architecture. Assets can exist digitally. Ownership can be recorded on a shared ledger. Transactions can settle rapidly. Markets can operate continuously. Assets can move between applications. Smart contracts can automate activities that historically required intermediaries. And because the infrastructure is software, new markets can be created far more easily. Blockchain-based markets represent a more fundamental change because they can digitize not simply the customer interface, but the asset and the infrastructure itself. A tokenized security can represent an economic interest in an underlying stock, bond or fund. A tokenized commodity can represent ownership of physical gold. A stablecoin can represent a dollar-denominated financial asset. These instruments can then move across blockchain networks using infrastructure that operates continuously.
This distinction is important. The first Internet revolution digitized access to financial markets. The blockchain revolution is digitizing the markets themselves.
The numbers are beginning to demonstrate the scale of this transition. By September 2026, RWA.xyz was tracking approximately $39 billion of distributed tokenized real-world assets, approximately $369 billion of represented asset value and almost $305 billion of stablecoins. Tokenized U.S. Treasury products alone approach $16 billion. These remain small numbers compared with the hundreds of trillions of dollars represented by global securities, currencies, commodities and derivatives. That is precisely the point.
If blockchain infrastructure proves superior for even a meaningful percentage of these markets, the opportunity ahead remains enormous.
B. The benefits that the new blockchain-based versions bring.
Why should financial markets move onto blockchain infrastructure at all? We shared the benefits in prior newsletters and in our book, Blockchain Competitive Advantage so we will be brief here in summarizing them. Blockchain-based digital marketplaces can potentially improve many of the characteristics that matter most to market participants:
1. 24/7 Markets. Most traditional securities markets remain organized around historical trading hours. But information does not arrive between 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Elections happen overnight. Wars begin on weekends. Companies announce developments outside market hours. Economic events occur across time zones. Digital marketplaces do not inherently need to close. Crypto markets demonstrated that global financial markets can operate continuously, and tokenized securities are increasingly moving in the same direction. Onchain assets can be transferable around the clock. Over time, investors may increasingly regard the idea that a major financial asset becomes largely untradeable every evening and weekend as an historical anomaly.
2. Faster Settlement. Traditional securities markets have made significant progress in reducing settlement times, but settlement remains a separate process from execution. Blockchain networks can combine ownership transfer and settlement much more closely. This can reduce the time counterparties remain exposed to one another and decrease capital trapped in the settlement process. It is important to be precise: blockchain does not eliminate counterparty risk. Issuer risk, custody risk, smart-contract risk, operational risk, and regulatory risk remain. But blockchain architecture can reduce certain forms of settlement and intermediary risk by shortening settlement cycles and providing more transparent ownership records.
3. Lower Costs. Traditional financial infrastructure contains multiple intermediaries because historically those intermediaries were necessary. Brokers, exchanges, clearing organizations, custodians, transfer agents, payment networks and banks each perform useful functions. But each layer adds technology, people, reconciliation, and cost. Blockchain systems can collapse some of these functions into shared infrastructure. The opportunity is therefore not merely lower trading commissions. It is lower structural cost across issuance, administration, custody, settlement, reporting and transfer.
4. Global Accessibility. Public equity markets remain surprisingly national. Where an investor lives determines which brokerage accounts they can open, which products they can buy and when they can trade them. Tokenized markets are architecturally global. Regulation will continue to determine who may legally access particular products, but the underlying technology does not care whether the buyer is in California, Singapore, Switzerland, or Brazil. This distinction between technological accessibility and regulatory accessibility is important. The technology can be global even when the product cannot yet be.
5. Fractional Ownership. Blockchains make assets naturally divisible. Instead of needing enough capital to buy an entire share, bond, or other asset, investors can potentially purchase very small fractional interests. This matters particularly in emerging markets and for high-value assets. A global investor may not want $10,000 of a particular security. They may want $50. Digital markets make that economically practical.
6. Transparency. Public blockchains provide an unusually transparent record of transactions and ownership movements. That does not mean every market should expose every investor's identity or position publicly. Privacy technology and permissioned systems will remain important. But shared ledgers can significantly reduce the reconciliation problem created when multiple institutions maintain separate versions of the same information.
7. Programmability. Perhaps the most important advantage is one that traditional markets largely do not possess: programmability. Digital assets can be programmable. A security can interact with a smart contract. Collateral can move automatically. Distributions can be programmed. Compliance rules can potentially be incorporated into the asset. Portfolios can rebalance automatically. This makes financial assets components of software systems rather than passive database entries. The implications become particularly significant as AI agents begin conducting economic activity. An autonomous AI agent cannot easily telephone a bank, complete paper forms, and wait for a transfer agent. It can interact with programmable digital money and assets.
Taken together these benefits dramatically improve marketplaces and their value proposition to market participants. However, in the long term the last point may be the most profound. Blockchain-based digital marketplaces may become not simply financial infrastructure for humans, but financial infrastructure for machines.
C. Digitizing traditional financial products and opening up new products and services.
We think about this transformation in two categories.
The first is digitizing financial products that already exist.
The second is creating markets that could not previously exist at a meaningful scale.
Both categories are potentially enormous.
1. Digital Money. Stablecoins were the first major proof point. They take one of humanity's oldest financial products—money—and make it digitally native. Dollar stablecoins can move continuously across blockchain networks and increasingly serve as settlement assets for trading, payments, remittances, and institutional finance. The approximately $305 billion stablecoin market is therefore more than another crypto asset category. It is evidence that financial value can operate successfully on blockchain infrastructure at global scale.
2. Digital Government Securities and Money Market Funds. Treasury securities and money market funds are particularly well suited to tokenization because investors already use them as stores of liquid capital. A tokenized Treasury or money market fund can potentially remain within the same digital environment as stablecoins and other digital assets. This turns previously separate systems into a connected financial network. An institution could theoretically hold a yield-bearing tokenized Treasury position, use it as collateral, convert part of it into a stablecoin and deploy that stablecoin elsewhere without moving through the conventional sequence of banks, brokers, and custodians. That is a fundamentally different financial architecture.
3. Digital Commodities. Gold is particularly interesting because it demonstrates how blockchain can connect a physical asset with a digital ownership system. Physical gold is valuable precisely because it is physical—but that characteristic also makes it difficult to move, divide, and settle. A properly structured gold-backed token combines physical reserves with digital transferability. Tokenization could eventually extend this concept across precious metals, energy products, and other commodities.
4. Digital Equities. Public equities are among the largest potential markets. Tokenized stocks can provide fractional ownership or economic exposure, extended trading hours, blockchain settlement, and integration with digital wallets. They can also potentially make public equities accessible through applications that historically could not offer brokerage products.
5. Digital Funds. Funds are another natural candidate. Traditional fund administration involves subscription documents, transfer agents, custodians, administrators, and settlement processes. Tokenization does not necessarily eliminate these functions, but it can dramatically change how they interact. More importantly, tokenized fund shares can potentially become usable digital assets rather than entries trapped inside a fund administrator's database. They can be held in wallets, transferred where legally permitted, integrated with other digital services, and potentially used as collateral.
6. New-to-the-World Products and Services. The more radical opportunity begins when blockchain is used not to recreate an existing financial instrument but to create something new. Prediction markets provide the clearest current example. Traditional financial markets allow investors to express views on interest rates, currencies, companies and commodities. But why stop there?
What is the probability that a particular candidate wins an election?
That the Federal Reserve changes rates?
That inflation exceeds a particular level?
That a sports team wins a championship?
That a company launches a product before a certain date?
That a geopolitical event occurs?
If an outcome can be objectively defined and verified, a market can potentially be created around it. Prediction markets transform opinions about future events into continuously changing prices. A contract trading at 63 cents can effectively represent the market's collective assessment of a 63% probability. This creates something more valuable than another speculative instrument. It creates real-time information markets. Businesses could use these markets for forecasting. Investors could use them as alternative data. Policymakers could observe changing expectations. Individuals could hedge exposures to real-world events.
In the future, millions of such markets could exist. And AI agents may ultimately be among their most active participants.
D. Six specific examples to build your understanding.
If this seems abstract, using specific examples of multi-billion dollar companies created from this focus on blockchain-based digital marketplaces may help. As noted above, all six of the examples we use are portfolio companies, and we seek additional exposure to each if we can get it at attractive valuations:
1. Securitize — Tokenizing Money Market Funds and Institutional Assets (Now public)
What they are doing: Securitize is building regulated infrastructure for issuing and managing tokenized securities, including BlackRock's BUIDL institutional digital liquidity fund. BUIDL allows qualified investors to access a yield-bearing fund through blockchain-based ownership infrastructure, while Securitize has expanded into tokenized credit and other institutional products including partnering with NYSE.
Traction: Securitize reported in its second-quarter 2026 results that it remained the largest tokenization platform and the only one with more than $4 billion in assets under management. It added approximately $1 billion of AUM during the quarter, and more than seven assets on the platform exceeded $100 million. BUIDL has also moved beyond simple ownership: it is increasingly being integrated into collateral and institutional trading workflows.
What comes next: The important next step is not simply putting more funds onchain. It is making those funds useful once they are there. Tokenized money market funds and Treasuries can become programmable collateral, treasury-management instruments and settlement assets. If institutional investors increasingly hold cash-equivalent assets onchain, tokenized funds could become one of the fundamental building blocks of digital capital markets.
2. Tether and Hadron — Tokenizing Gold and Other Real-World Assets
What they are doing: Tether is first and foremost the world's largest stablecoin company, with about 65% of the global market and enormous positive cash flow. Beyond digital dollars, Tether is also tokenizing commodities. Tether Gold, or XAU₮, represents exposure to physical gold through blockchain-based tokens, while Hadron by Tether provides infrastructure intended to allow institutions and issuers to tokenize a much broader range of assets, including commodities, bonds, equity, and other real-world assets.
Traction: Tether currently reports approximately $3.1 billion of XAU₮ outstanding, backed by more than 22,000 kilograms of gold. Tether said its gold holdings increased 9.5% during the second quarter of 2026 despite a decline in the gold price, suggesting that demand was not simply momentum-driven. Hadron has meanwhile entered strategic arrangements aimed at expanding tokenized capital-market products.
What comes next: Gold is likely only the beginning. Hadron provides Tether with a potential bridge from its enormous stablecoin franchise into tokenization infrastructure for multiple asset classes. If the company can apply the distribution, liquidity, and technical expertise developed through USDT to real-world assets, Tether could evolve from being primarily a digital-dollar company into a much broader provider of digital capital-market infrastructure.
3. Kraken — Tokenizing Public Equities
What they are doing: Kraken and the xStocks ecosystem are bringing public equities and ETFs onto blockchain networks. xStocks are backed 1:1 by underlying assets and allow eligible investors to obtain tokenized exposure to companies including Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla, or to major ETFs. They can be held in compatible wallets and traded across digital venues.
Traction: The growth has been remarkable. The xStocks network now reports more than 700 stocks and ETFs, over $40 billion in transaction volume and availability across more than 110 countries, subject to jurisdictional restrictions. Earlier in 2026, xStocks had already surpassed $25 billion in volume. Nasdaq's September 2026 decision to invest $100 million in Kraken parent Payward and deepen their tokenization collaboration is an important institutional validation.
What comes next: xStocks has already begun expanding beyond U.S. securities toward internationally listed equities. More important is the convergence between Kraken and Nasdaq. Rather than tokenized equities remaining a parallel crypto market, the next phase could connect regulated exchange infrastructure directly with permissionless blockchain networks. That could ultimately blur the distinction between a traditional stock exchange and a blockchain-based digital marketplace.
4. Bitwise — Tokenized Funds and Automated Token Portfolios
What they are doing: Bitwise is moving asset management onchain in two distinct ways. Its Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund is a tokenized institutional fund, while its newly launched Automated Token Portfolios allow eligible non-U.S. investors to replicate Bitwise-designed portfolios of tokenized public stocks directly in their wallets.
Traction: The Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund had approximately $259 million under management at its June launch under Bitwise management. In August, Bitwise launched Automated Token Portfolios using Coinbase tokenized stocks and Glider's wallet infrastructure. Bitwise itself reported approximately $9 billion in client assets when announcing the ATP product, demonstrating that tokenization is now being adopted by established asset managers rather than only crypto-native startups.
What comes next: Automated Token Portfolios point toward a significant change in asset management. Instead of an investor sending assets into a conventional fund structure, a manager can publish a strategy that software automatically implements in an investor-controlled wallet. Over time, asset management may therefore separate into two components: intellectual property—the portfolio strategy—and programmable execution. This could enable new forms of personalized, continuously rebalanced and globally distributed investment management.
5. Kalshi — Turning Real-World Events and Sports into Tradable Contracts
What they are doing: Kalshi operates a federally regulated prediction market where users trade event contracts based on real-world outcomes. These markets cover economic data, financial events, politics, weather, culture, and increasingly, sports. Contracts generally allow participants to take opposing positions on objectively resolvable events, turning future outcomes into continuously priced financial markets.
Traction: Kalshi's growth demonstrates the extraordinary consumer demand for this new asset class. In May 2026, the company said annualized trading volume had increased from $52 billion to $178 billion in six months while institutional volume increased 800%. It raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation. Kalshi has also moved aggressively into sports, becoming a US Open prediction-market partner and establishing partnerships with five Major League Baseball teams.
What comes next: Sports may prove to be prediction markets' mass-market entry point, but the larger opportunity extends far beyond sports. Kalshi is already distributing event contracts through brokerage infrastructure and supplying prediction-market information to investment research. Over time, event contracts could become a standard financial asset class sitting alongside stocks, options, and futures—giving investors the ability to trade or hedge economic, political, climate, and other real-world outcomes directly.
6. Polymarket — Creating a Global Marketplace for Predictions
What they are doing: Polymarket creates blockchain-based markets around future events. Participants buy and sell fully collateralized outcome shares, with prices providing a continuously updated market-implied probability. Markets range from elections and monetary policy to geopolitics, technology, economics, and sports.
Traction: Prediction markets have moved decisively into the mainstream. Reuters reported in September that Polymarket and Kalshi together generated $48.4 billion of trading volume in August alone. Polymarket has surpassed $1 billion in annualized revenue and has reportedly been valued at $21 billion following substantial institutional investment. Its market probabilities are increasingly cited by financial and mainstream media as real-time indicators of expectations.
What comes next: Polymarket's most important product may ultimately not be trading at all—it may be information. A sufficiently liquid prediction market produces a continuously updated probability based on participants putting capital behind their beliefs. These probability feeds could become valuable data inputs for investors, businesses, media organizations, and AI systems. If prediction markets achieve sufficient depth and integrity, they could develop into a new global information infrastructure for measuring expectations about the future.
We could have chosen many other examples from our combined portfolio of more than 1,500 companies including 80+ unicorns. However, these six examples should make clear that digital trading marketplaces are not only here, but they are also driving enormous shareholder value for the leaders in each application area.
E. Implications for Financial Markets Globally
The implications extend far beyond the six companies listed above. We believe financial markets are entering a period of architectural change comparable to the transition from physical trading floors to electronic exchanges. But this transition could ultimately be larger because it affects not simply where trading occurs but how assets themselves are created, owned, transferred, and settled.
Several consequences follow:
Markets Become Continuous. Twenty-four-hour trading will increasingly become an expectation rather than an exception. Once investors become accustomed to assets that can move continuously, traditional trading-hour restrictions become harder to defend. This does not mean every market must have identical liquidity at 3 a.m. on Sunday. It means the infrastructure no longer needs to prohibit trading simply because an exchange is closed.
Geographic Barriers Decline. Financial markets have historically been organized nationally because regulation, banking, custody, and exchange infrastructure are national. Blockchain networks are global by default - witness Tether's stablecoin operations throughout the world. Regulatory differences will persist, but technology will increasingly push markets toward global distribution. A company may issue in one jurisdiction, investors may reside in dozens of others, assets may settle on a global blockchain, and liquidity may exist across multiple digital venues. This will place significant pressure on nationally fragmented market structures.
Settlement Becomes a Competitive Advantage. For decades, settlement infrastructure has been largely invisible to ordinary investors. That could change. If one market settles rapidly while another requires more capital, more reconciliation and more intermediaries, settlement architecture becomes part of the competitive proposition. The same will be true for collateral. An asset that can move instantly and be used programmatically as collateral may become more useful than an economically identical asset trapped inside a traditional account structure.
Exchanges and Clearing Houses Must Adapt. The incumbent financial infrastructure will not disappear. Many institutions possess enormous advantages: regulatory licenses, customer relationships, liquidity, trusted brands, and decades of market experience. But they will have to modernize. NYSE's partnership with Securitize and Nasdaq's partnership with Kraken are therefore particularly significant. They represent the likely direction of travel: established financial-market institutions combining their regulatory and market expertise with blockchain-native technology and distribution. The winners may not be "TradFi" or "DeFi." The winners may be the companies that successfully combine the best characteristics of both.
New Asset Classes Become Possible. Prediction markets, and the rapid growth of Kalshi and Polymarket, demonstrate another consequence. Once the marginal cost of creating and settling a market falls dramatically, the number of things that can become markets increases. We could eventually see tradable markets for economic statistics, climate outcomes, transportation events, product launches, scientific milestones, regulatory decisions, and thousands of other measurable events. Some will be speculative. Others will perform genuine economic functions through hedging, forecasting, and price discovery.
Financial Products Become Software. This may ultimately be the most profound change. A tokenized asset is not simply a digital certificate. It can interact with other software. A money market token can become collateral. A stablecoin can settle a transaction. A smart contract can rebalance a portfolio. An AI agent can execute a strategy. A prediction-market price can become an input into another financial application.
Financial markets therefore become composable. This is analogous to what APIs did to software. Once financial assets can interact programmatically, developers can combine them into products that would have been prohibitively difficult to create within traditional financial infrastructure. This is where all of this converges into our Autonomous Digital Economy. AI and Agents will leverage Digital Finance across the Internet on behalf of all of us. And probably sooner than we expect.
Regulation Will Determine the Pace, Not the Direction. None of this means the transition will be frictionless. Tokenized assets raise important questions around investor protection, custody, disclosure, market manipulation, privacy, and cross-border regulation. Prediction markets face particularly complex questions about the boundary between derivatives, forecasting markets, and gambling. European regulators have recently highlighted risks related to both tokenized markets and prediction markets. Those issues matter. But regulation generally determines how technological transitions occur rather than whether superior technology ultimately gets adopted. The internet did not eliminate banking regulation. Mobile phones did not eliminate telecommunications regulation. Blockchain will not eliminate financial regulation. Instead, financial regulation itself will increasingly have to operate in a world where the underlying assets and markets are digital.
We already see this feeding through into announcement after announcement of new partnerships between the leaders of the traditional markets and the leaders of the new world including those in our investment portfolio.
F. Implications for Our Investors
For investors, we believe there are several important conclusions.
Look Beyond Crypto. The first is that digital finance is no longer primarily about cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin and other digital monies were the first major blockchain-native assets. Stablecoins demonstrated blockchain's utility for moving traditional monetary value. The opportunity has now broadened dramatically. Government bonds, money market funds, equities, commodities, investment funds, and entirely new financial products are moving onto blockchain rails. The relevant investment universe therefore includes much more than tokens. It includes exchanges, tokenization platforms, stablecoin issuers, custodians, wallets, brokerages, compliance companies, identity providers, market-data businesses, smart-contract infrastructure, and companies building the software that connects traditional and digital finance.
Rebuild and Replace. The second conclusion is that the largest opportunities may emerge from rebuilding existing financial infrastructure rather than replacing existing financial assets. There are hundreds of trillions of dollars of securities, derivatives, currencies, and commodities in the global financial system. Those assets do not need to disappear for blockchain to create enormous value. They simply need better infrastructure. If a meaningful share of those assets eventually trades, settles, collateralizes, or transfers over blockchain-based networks, the companies providing that infrastructure can become extremely important financial institutions.
Existing and New Markets. The third conclusion is that new markets may become as important as tokenized existing markets. Prediction markets illustrate this. Kalshi and Polymarket have created businesses valued in the tens of billions of dollars around a financial category that barely existed at a commercial scale a few years ago. That should cause investors to think beyond the obvious question of which existing assets will be tokenized. The more interesting question may be: What becomes financially possible when almost anything can be turned into a programmable market?
TradeFi Now Gets It. The fourth conclusion is that traditional financial institutions are increasingly validating the thesis. BlackRock and the NYSE as well as others are working with Securitize. Nasdaq is investing in Kraken's parent and collaborating on tokenized equities. Deutsche Börse infrastructure is supporting xStocks. Institutional asset managers are launching tokenized funds. These are not fringe experiments conducted solely by crypto startups. The world's established financial institutions increasingly recognize that digital asset infrastructure is likely to become part of mainstream finance.
Be Investors Not Just Speculators. And finally, we believe investors should focus on equity ownership in the companies building this infrastructure, not simply speculating on the assets moving across it. During the Internet revolution, enormous value was created by owning the companies that built search, commerce, payments, cloud computing, and digital marketplaces. We believe a similar opportunity exists in digital finance. The next generation of financial-market leaders may be companies that make assets programmable, markets continuous, settlement instantaneous, ownership global, and financial products accessible through software. Some will emerge from today's crypto ecosystem. Some will be existing financial institutions that successfully reinvent themselves. And some will be companies that do not yet exist.
Our role as venture investors is to identify and back those businesses early and to heavy up and invest directly in the mid and late stage once the emerging category leaders are becoming visible.
For more than a decade, Fifth Era has invested around the thesis that digital monies, commodities, and assets are inevitable and that the world's financial infrastructure will consequently need to be upgraded. The evidence increasingly suggests that this transition is now underway.
Money has become digital.
Commodities are becoming digital.
Securities are becoming digital.
Funds are becoming digital.
Entirely new markets are being created digitally.
The question is therefore shifting:
It is no longer whether global financial markets will become increasingly blockchain-based;
It is how quickly they will make the transition—and which companies will own the infrastructure of the new financial system.
We encourage investors who would like to discuss these implications to reach out directly to us at ir@fifthera.com.
The Fifth Era Partner Team
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