Key Highlights: KDS is bridging traditional U.S. financial infrastructure to public EVM blockchains, granting tokens the exact rights of conventional assets like dividends, voting rights, and underlying claims. Backed by Depository Trust Company (DTC) entitlements, the platform will enable users to custody digital claims on equities, ETFs, and bonds directly within self-custodial crypto wallets. Targeting ...
Key Highlights: Strategic Expansion: Securitize announced the acquisition of New York-based River One to enter the private asset-backed warehouse financing space alongside its core tokenization infrastructure. Financial Performance: Alongside the deal announcement, Securitize reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $18.6 million (up 13% year-over-year) and a net loss of $66.3 million, driven primarily by non-cash charges ...
Key Highlights: Asset management giant Schroders is partnering with Centrifuge to tokenize its Schroder International Selection Fund Emerging Market Bond strategy on the Solana blockchain. Marking Schroders’ debut on Solana, the initiative brings an actively managed traditional fixed-income strategy onchain rather than a crypto-native asset basket. While Solana provides high throughput and low fees, tokenization ...
Key Highlights: European asset manager Amundi is expanding fund tokenization to Ethereum, establishing native fund units that contrast with derivative-based stock perpetuals and third-party synthetic tokens. Despite using a public blockchain, deployment does not equal unrestricted retail availability or permissionless decentralized finance (DeFi) integration. The structure follows CACEIS’s hybrid tokenization architecture and builds upon Amundi’s ...
Key Highlights: The non-stablecoin real-world asset (RWA) market stands between $46 billion and $60 billion, yet just five products account for nearly half of its total value. Major institutional offerings exhibit tiny cap tables, with Circle’s $2.96 billion USYC held by only 44 addresses and multiple $100 million-plus assets held by a single address. Secondary ...
Key Highlights: Schroders has partnered with Centrifuge affiliate Anemoy to tokenize shares of a $2.3 billion actively managed emerging market debt UCITS fund. The onchain feeder vehicle features a $100,000 minimum investment, requires USDC stablecoin settlement, and is restricted to non-US qualified professional investors. This initiative marks a shift from conventional tokenized short-term Treasuries toward ...
Key Highlights Prometheum co-CEO Aaron Kaplan emphasizes that the digital asset sector’s future depends on leveraging existing federal securities frameworks rather than waiting for congressional action. The $GENIUS Act, enacted with bipartisan backing in 2025, establishes federal reserve and oversight standards for payment stablecoins, taking effect on January 18. Without comprehensive statutory overhauls from Congress, ...
Key Highlights: Bank of Ghana Governor Dr. JP Asiama outlined a vision to balance financial stability, innovation, and trust during the Africa Virtual Assets Summit (AVAS) 2026 in Accra. Dr. Asiama underscored that virtual assets and tokenization hold substantial potential to advance cross-border payments, expand financial inclusion, and unlock new financing channels. The central bank ...
Key Highlights Digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus has rolled out live support for smart-contract-based assets on the Stellar network. The operational functionality is integrated across Taurus-PROTECT custody and Taurus-CAPITAL tokenization platforms. The upgrade enables institutional clients to handle complex asset lifecycles, rule-based transfers, and regulated token models within unified operating controls. Institutional digital asset infrastructure ...
Key Highlights: Robinhood has entered into a strategic partnership with Ripple to modernize and automate its worldwide treasury operations and leverage $RLUSD on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Ripple reported an annualized product revenue run rate approaching $900 million exiting 2026, driven by enterprise adoption across institutional banking and fintech leaders. $RLUSD is listed on Robinhood ...
Key Highlights: Prominent industry figures, including CZ, are emphasizing the critical role of asset tokenization in granting global investors streamlined access to financial markets. Tokenizing traditional assets—such as U.S. equities—on blockchain networks enhances market liquidity, accessibility, and international participation. The continued expansion of tokenization into broader asset classes is expected to reshape trading volumes while ...
Key Highlights: Google Cloud is launching its first dedicated multi-party computation (MPC) digital asset custody offering, moving beyond generic key management systems. The new purpose-built service integrates MPC signing, automated transaction policies, and key recovery to help banks and institutions secure tokenized assets. The product addresses the single largest vector in crypto crime, with compromised ...