Solana is gaining attention as tokenized stocks bring trading onto the blockchain outside traditional market hours, with CryptoRus pointing to after-hours activity and more than 727,000 holders as signs to watch. But the bigger question is whether that usage can spread across Solana’s network and eventually show up in SOL’s price. Solana’s After-Hours Stock Market […]
DBS and Citi settled a US dollar cross-border payment between Singapore and New York on September 5 using tokenized deposits on SWIFT’s shared ledger, clearing the transfer in minutes over a weekend when a conventional payment can take up to two business days. The banks used tokenized deposits, commercial-bank money issued on a blockchain, with […]
Tokenized versions of SPY, Google, and Robinhood’s own stock led a burst of on-chain trading activity over the past month, with Token Terminal data showing SPY on Robinhood Chain up by more than 1,300% in 30 days to an over $17 million market cap. The moves point to fast-growing retail and platform interest in tokenized […]
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission unveiled a phased roadmap on September 4 for converting stocks, bonds and investment funds into blockchain-based tokens, with the earliest phase due to start in February 2027 once an amendment to the Electronic Registration Act takes effect. The plan links the country’s securities market to a stablecoin payment system that […]
Crypto investors may be underestimating where the industry is heading, according to Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan, who has pointed to three mistakes he sees in the market right now. In a recent post, Hougan said that investors are using today’s market size, established brands, and current activity to judge crypto’s future. Those are […]
Franklin Templeton is preparing to put tokenized assets inside its conventional mutual funds and ETFs, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, eight days after SEC staff cleared the firm to hold its $721 million blockchain-based money market fund in those portfolios. Franklin characterizes relief as the first US regulatory clearance for digitally native products inside conventional funds. “It is […]
HSBC and Standard Chartered executed the first live tokenized deposit transaction on SWIFT’s blockchain-based ledger, the two banks said on August 19, six weeks after the network opened to an initial cohort of 17 banks. Payment messages moved between HSBC’s Tokenized Deposit Service (TDS) and Standard Chartered’s own tokenized deposit infrastructure, with the resulting obligations […]
Tokenized stocks emerged as the fastest-growing crypto coin category between January 2024 and May 2026, according to a new CoinGecko report tracking the number of coins listed across major sectors. The category expanded by a whopping 3,314.3% during the period, after rising from just 14 listed coins to 478. Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Category Real World Assets […]
The biggest banks on Wall Street are reportedly going to launch a tokenized deposit network in the first half of 2027. The effort is being led by the Clearing House, a real-time payments company co-owned by major financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. Project to Bridge Traditional Payments with […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that although the adoption of tokenized finance brings many efficiency and speed benefits, some of its features could also result in financial instability for the markets. Tokenized Real-world assets (RWAs) also continue to grow rapidly, with the industry being worth roughly $27.5 billion as of early April. Tokenization […]
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