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Welcome to the TAC's Progress Bar, where we combed through 643 relevant tokenization news stories from the week, analyzed the key stories on our weekly podcast, then distilled what you need to know into a few hundred words in this newsletter. Delivered to your inbox in time for Friday happy hour in NYC (usually). The week opened with devastating news. Nathan Allman, founder and CEO of Ondo Finance, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend at just 32. It's hard to overstate what he built in su
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