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 […]
According to a survey of 351 institutional investors published by EY-Parthenon and Coinbase on March 18, three out of four institutional investors believe that crypto prices will go up over the next 12 months. The findings suggest that recent price drops have done more to tighten how large investors engage with crypto than to shake […]
Bitwise’s Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan believes there is a fundamental disconnect between perception and reality in the crypto market. He argued that investors often misinterpret what is truly happening because behavioral biases, particularly anchoring bias, distort their view. Anchoring bias, the tendency to fixate on the first piece of information encountered, shapes how people […]
Jupiter and Ondo Finance have teamed up to bring over 200 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to the Solana blockchain. The offering is being introduced through its new platform, Ondo Global Markets, which initially debuted on Ethereum and BNB Chain in late 2025. Solana Users Get Access to New Tokenized Stocks Ondo Global Markets, one […]
In recent months, 35 of the world’s leading financial and technology firms, including BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Fidelity, have launched new products and services built directly on the Ethereum blockchain. These moves, detailed in a social media thread from the official Ethereum account, signal a rapid acceleration in the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) by mainstream […]
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