Gemini, a crypto trading platform, has launched a new batch of tokenized shares to European Union investors, taking an important step towards merging traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi). The tokenized shares launched this time include Tesla, Nvidia, Costco, Palantir, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Standard & Poor's 500 ETF, Coinbase (COIN), Circle (CRCL), Apple, Amazon, and others. Gemini first launched tokenized MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares on June 27, 2025.
Swiss National Bank: Study various methods for settling tokenized assets in central bank currency.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government today released the "Hong Kong Digital Asset Development Policy Declaration 2.0". The declaration mentions that the government is building a unified and comprehensive regulatory framework for digital asset service providers, covering digital asset trading platforms, stablecoin issuers, digital asset trading service providers and digital asset custody service providers. Among them, the Securities and Futures Commission (Securities Supervision ...
In an interview with Caixin, the founder of HashKey Group, Xiao Feng, said that in the era of digital economy, the dollar stablecoin is actually the tokenization of the dollar, the purpose is to continue to maintain and promote the dominance of the dollar. This strategy is combined with the tokenization of U.S. debt, making cryptocurrency the "pick-up man" of U.S. debt. The current attitude of the United States is that if payment clearing and settlement bypasses SWIFT (International Fund Clearin...
Deutsche Bank and Ant International today announced a strategic partnership that will combine their strengths to provide innovative cross-border transfer solutions to businesses in Europe and Asia. The collaboration includes the launch of tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and innovative solutions based on the Time Series Transformer (TST) AI foreign exchange model.
Sentora (formerly IntoTheBlock) said that only 10-15% of global equity assets are currently used as collateral, and asset tokenization could upend this status quo and unlock collateral opportunities for equity markets worth more than $120 trillion.
Mark T. Uyeda, Commissioner of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), spoke at the Tokenization Roundtable on May 12 in Washington, D.C., calling for transparent, predictable regulatory environments for real-world asset tokenization. Uyeda emphasized that blockchain technology has the potential to significantly change the way financial marekts operate, including improving asset liquidity, reducing intermediary delays, and lowering transaction costs. He said the SEC should proactively develop ...
According to official news, Tether announced that its asset tokenization platform Hadron has integrated Chainalysis' compliance and monitoring tools. This upgrade brings institutional-level regulatory capabilities to the Hadron platform, further solidifying its position as a trusted and compliant token issuance and asset management market.
Global banking giant Citibank (Citi) has partnered with SIX Digital Trading Platform (SDX), the digital assets arm of Switzerland's leading securities exchange, to tokenize untraded shares, aiming to simplify the $750 billion market, which still relies on PDF files and paper documents. Citibank will act as custodian and issuing agent to provide a tokenised version of late-stage, unlisted company stakes on SDX's regulated blockchain platform, the Central Securities Depository (CSD).
EtherMage, a core contributor to Virtuals Protocol, said in a post on X that it has listened to comments on the current points mechanism and how people play the game, and hopes to share some ideas, including: no longer encouraging the holding of proxy tokens, only encouraging transactions, which solves the problem of developers holding a large number of tokens and abusing points; Jeet Jail address clustering; suggesting that the development team lock down completely for a long time; exploring a ...
The Securities Exchange Commission's Cryptocurrency Working Group has announced the agenda and panelists for the May 12 roundtable, titled "Tokenization - Asset Upchain: The Intersection of TradFi and DeFi", with the agenda including: Financial Evolution: Capital Markets 2.0, The Future of Tokenization; Participants include: Cynthia Lo Bessette (Fidelity), Eun Ah Choi (NASDAQ), Will Geyer (Invesco), Sandy Kaul (Franklin Templeton), Robert Mitchnick (BlackRock), and others.
UAE real estate giant MAG has signed a $3 billion real-world asset tokenization (RWA) agreement with blockchain infrastructure firm Mavryk, in partnership with Dubai-based financial derivatives agency MultiBank Group. Under the agreement, MAG's luxury real estate projects, including Dubai Riverside, Ritz-Carlton Apartments and Keturah Reserve, will be tokenized on the blockchain through MultiBank.io compliance RWA marketplace. Talal Mofaq Al Ghaddah, senior executive vice president of MAG, said ...
According to the Deloitte Center for Financial Services report, real estate tokenization is expected to become the leading way to finance, own, and trade real estate, with the market size likely to reach $4 trillion by 2035 and an average annual growth rate of 27%. Tokenization offers advantages such as operational efficiency, faster settlements, and broader investor access. The report notes that the appeal of real estate tokenization is its ability to simplify complex financial protocols, such ...
The Securities Exchange Commission released a memo stating that Ondo Finance and representatives from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP met with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Crypto Working Group to discuss a compliance path for the issuance and sale of tokenized U.S. securities. Topics include structural models for tokenized securities, registration and broker requirements, market structure regulations, financial crime compliance, and state corporate law. Ondo Finance proposes to seek regula...
According to Decrypt, the leadership of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Friday that it will consider establishing a regulatory sandbox for digital assets, allowing cryptocurrency exchanges to freely experiment in new areas, including the possible opening of tokenized securities exchanges.