Key Highlights: Tether Gold (XAUT) has overtaken Paxos Gold (PAXG), surging nearly 12-fold year-over-year to 143,973 holders. Tokenized ETFs and equities from platforms like xStocks, Robinhood, and Ondo expanded their holder base from 21,000 in August to 105,000. Ethereum retains roughly 95% ($4.92 billion) of the sector’s total market value, while retail users increasingly disperse ...
Key Highlights: Securitize is introducing tokenized stocks backed 1:1 by underlying shares using a convertible entitlement token (CET) framework that retains economic rights, including dividends and voting rights. The offering launches on the Solana blockchain with market maker Jump Trading and Securitize’s Solana-based PropAMM providing initial liquidity. Securitize anticipates expanding trading to major institutional venues, ...
Key Highlights: Citrini Research suggests that the accelerating shift of traditional finance toward tokenization will open massive revenue streams for fee-collecting platforms, lenders, and infrastructure providers. Market analysts caution against assuming major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin ($BTC) and Ethereum ($ETH) are the optimal plays for tokenization, noting that targeted equities and specific crypto tokens offer better ...
Key Highlights: Securitize has officially introduced an onchain trading platform offering tokenized U.S. stocks backed 1:1 by underlying shares. Initial offerings feature major equities such as Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, and Amazon, trading on the Solana blockchain and settling in USDC. Tokens represent legal security entitlements under UCC Article 8, preserving critical shareholder benefits such ...
Key Highlights: Tron network founder Justin Sun announced plans to roll out tokenized shares in the fourth quarter. The initiative targets the integration of real-world assets (RWA) and traditional equities onto the Tron blockchain. Details regarding specific supported stocks, technical infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and an exact launch date have not yet been disclosed. Tron Prepares ...
Key Highlights Standard Chartered plans to launch digital asset custody services in Singapore covering selected cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenized real-world assets. The service will cater strictly to institutional and accredited corporate clients under the bank’s financing and securities-services division, subject to regulatory approvals. This initiative marks an expansion of Standard Chartered’s digital asset footprint beyond ...
Key Highlights: Coinbase recorded an inflow of $4.7 million in tokenized stocks, marking a strategic expansion into the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The integration intersects with decentralized lending protocols like Aave, where tokenized assets could drive new borrowing and lending activity. Traders are monitoring liquidity formation, new potential liquidity pools, and the impact of tokenized ...
Key Highlights Crypto market maker GSR has pledged a $100 million multi-year credit facility to launch Hare, an onchain credit initiative. Developed alongside liquidity distribution platform Turtle, Hare will build and manage curated onchain vaults using GSR’s capital as anchor liquidity. The move addresses growing demand for institutional yield and collateral management as tokenized funds, ...
Key Highlights Cardano has introduced a permissioned token architecture using smart contracts to enforce regulatory and transfer rules without requiring a network hard fork. Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard stated that asset rules must travel directly with the token and remain strictly enforceable across every transfer. The functionality includes issuer capabilities to restrict transfers or ...
Key Highlights Pyth Network metrics reveal an uptick in activity and dedicated trader focus within the Real-World Asset (RWA) perpetuals market. The surge in RWA Perps occurs against a backdrop of mixed performance and fluctuating momentum across major cryptocurrency assets. Elevated open interest signals potential market volatility alongside the possibility of enhanced liquidity and institutional ...
Key Highlights: The Solana Foundation has launched an open-source Delivery-versus-Payment (DvP) program under the MIT license, developed with institutional input from J.P. Morgan. The program enables atomic settlement on the Solana public blockchain, executing asset and payment transfers simultaneously in seconds to eliminate counterparty risk. Supporting SPL Token and Token-2022 standards, the audited infrastructure targets ...
Key Highlights: Plume has launched a structure tied to Fidelity’s actively managed FBND exchange-traded fund, aiming to expand real-world asset tokenization beyond short-duration Treasury bills. The onchain instrument, dubbed nBND or nFBND, is a receipt token issued by Nest DAO LLC rather than direct registered ownership of Fidelity’s nearly $28 billion fund. Despite the massive ...