Tokenization: archive
Every Tokenization story in Digital Assets, newest first. 121 stories
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OKXICE tokenized stock objections reach 26 as Intel, Oracle opt out
Twenty-three of the 62 companies on the venue's original roster have opted out, about 37%, according to a CoinDesk tally.
Hong Kong SFC approves 24/7 trading of $660m ChinaAMC fund
Only Class F shares trade on Futu's PantherTrade, and the tokens cannot be withdrawn from the exchange.
Janus Henderson launches Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar
Centrifuge provides the blockchain infrastructure and Nasdaq licenses the index; the fund follows Janus Henderson's tokenized S&P 500 product.
JPYC misses first-year target with 3.2 billion yen in circulation
CEO Noritaka Okabe attributes the shortfall partly to a 1 million yen per-request issuance cap.
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OKXICE tokenized-stock opt-outs hit 22 as Wells Fargo and Cisco object
The six include Arm, Moderna, Intuit and Marvell; an objection binds only that venue, CoinDesk reports.
Franklin Templeton adds $150 million sgBENJI to XRP Ledger
All $150 million went to one wallet that shares its eight signers with Franklin's issuing account, CoinDesk's ledger review found.
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HSBC rolls out RedCoin stablecoin to PayMe's 3.3 million users
The Hong Kong dollar token is fully backed by high-quality liquid assets in separate accounts; a tokenized money market fund share class is next.
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Securitize shares fall 38% since Apple, Nvidia token launch on Solana
The 12 tokenized US stocks trade through Securitize’s broker-dealer on Solana with Jump Trading as market maker, but no volume or holder data have been published.
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Ripple Prime opens 24/7 swaps on 100-plus markets; HSBC flags thin depth
The brokerage, formerly known as Hidden Road, announced the service on Oct. 15, with Virtu already trading; HSBC calls the step “evolutionary, not revolutionary.”
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Bank Negara Malaysia launches in-house depository for tokenized bonds and sukuk
SSDS+ extends the central bank's existing scripless depository and can settle in central bank money around the clock once integrated with RENTAS+, according to Ledger Insights.
Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs join OKX-ICE tokenized stock objections
The Oct. 19 notice lists 16 objecting issuers, up from nine, leaving 47 of the 62 companies in the original roster without a disclosed objection.
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JPMorgan extends JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum for approved counterparties
The USD-denominated token now supports peer-to-peer transfers within the Ethereum Virtual Machine ecosystem, including Base, The Block reported.
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Broadcom, Verizon and UnitedHealth among eight newly disclosed OKXICE objectors
An October 15 OKXICE notice lists nine objecting issuers in all but does not disclose why they objected or when.
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Wells Fargo tokenized deposits move cross-border payments in two minutes or less
None of the three banks put a revenue figure on the opportunity; Goldman's Solomon calls the activity 'small and at the margin.'
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Perpetuals.com files to run tokenized US stock venue under SEC exemption
The Nasdaq-listed fintech, led by former FTX Europe chief Patrick Gruhn, is the second firm to seek the SEC's innovation-exemption route for tokenized U.S. equities.
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BNY, Citadel Securities complete tokenized Treasury collateral transaction
BNY also says it expects to extend settlement hours for Federal Reserve-eligible securities and U.S. triparty transactions to European and Asian hours next year.
Federated Hermes plans its first tokenized fund shares with Prometheum
The $911 billion manager says money market funds are a likely starting point and has not named the funds or blockchains.
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EU finance ministers back €300bn per-infrastructure DLT Pilot Regime cap; Lagarde objects
The Council of the EU's negotiating position raises the Commission's proposed €100 billion ceiling per DLT market infrastructure, and separately lifts the cap on bank-run DLT settlement schemes to €50 billion.
Harneys and dropRWA plan tokenized catastrophe bonds for early 2027
The planned tokens would represent legal ownership of catastrophe bonds and could hold smaller beneficial interests, subject to securities, insurance and investor-protection rules.
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IMF finds tokenized US stocks 1.5 times as volatile, less liquid
The report puts the tokenized real-world asset market at about $65 billion as of July 31, with tokenized equities at roughly $2.3 billion of that.
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Tokenized commodities reached $5.55 billion at end-March as Paxos and Theo pitch lending
Gold-backed tokens from Paxos and Tether accounted for almost 90% of that growth, and the executives describe financing metals and inventory as the next markets.
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Robinhood Chain weighs Arbitrum fee-based trade priority for tokenized assets
The Layer-2 network for tokenized real-world assets orders transactions first-come, first-served today and has not used Arbitrum's earlier Timeboost tool.
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Crédit Agricole Assurances allocates €100m to tokenized Amundi cash fund
CACEIS, Crédit Agricole's securities services subsidiary, serves as tokenization and transfer agent for the tokenized share class.
Citrini tokenization report favors fee collectors over bitcoin and ether
It proposes listed-stock and token baskets and names Securitize, Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle, Figure, SoFi and Bullish.
Securitize launches tokenized US stocks on Solana backed 1:1 by shares
The Block reports the tokens carry dividends and settle in USDC, with Apple, Nvidia and Strategy among the stocks named.
NUVA launches HOME token giving non-U.S. investors 1 USDC entry to HELOCs
The managed vault initially holds home equity lines of credit originated through Figure Technology Solutions and targets a 7% annual return that resets monthly
Securitize to put Apple, Nvidia and Tesla shares on Solana, eyes NYSE venue
Securitize Stocks will launch with 12 companies, settle in USDC and aim for NYSE's planned 24/7 platform and the OKXICE venue.
CSBS survey: 20% of community banks could offer tokenized deposits, and 17% stablecoins
Banks planning stablecoin offerings favor core service providers over stablecoin networks, the survey found.
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Kazakhstan's central bank signs Tether MoU to study tenge stablecoin
The National Bank of Kazakhstan, Tether and the Alatau City Authority will study stablecoins and tokenization, and plan a pilot in Alatau.
GSR commits $100 million to Hare, an onchain vault business built with Turtle
The multi-year commitment is mostly a credit facility that will seed two Aave-powered vaults, one for major stablecoins and one for Paxos' tokenized gold.
Taurus co-founder says banks need three internal layers to use Swift's ledger
Lamine Brahimi says a permissioned ledger, wallet tools and smart-contract software must sit on the bank's side of any connection to Swift's tokenized-deposit network.
Cardano Foundation ships CIP-0113, letting token issuers freeze and seize holdings
The standard puts allow-list, freeze and seizure rules inside a shared smart contract and, the foundation says, required no hard fork.
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RedStone report puts tokenized equity supply up 395% while onchain collateral sits at $81 million
Leveraged equity exposure onchain sits almost entirely in perpetual futures rather than tokenized shares, The Defiant notes.
OKX takes investment from Circle, Ripple, Qube and SC Ventures in tokenized-equity push
The exchange did not disclose the amount; the deal carries the same $25 billion pre-money valuation as ICE's March investment.
UK names six banks to underwrite digital gilt pilot on HSBC Orion
The six banks will price and place DIGIT, a short-dated bond that will sit outside the UK's main debt management programme.
Arbitrum joins Global Dollar Network as USDG launches on its chain
The ArbitrumDAO proposal would add 100 million ARB to an incentive program and put treasury assets behind USDG liquidity.
Ondo unveils private-market notes ahead of its first AI offering
The notes give exposure without shareholder rights, and The Defiant warns their secondary prices can diverge sharply from the payout tied to a liquidity event.
Solana Foundation unveils open-source DvP settlement program with JPMorgan input
The standard settles cash and assets in one on-chain transaction; the open question is whether a single JPMorgan-arranged Galaxy commercial paper deal becomes a template other institutions accept.
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Plume opens tokenized nBND vault holding Fidelity's Total Bond ETF
The vault holds Fidelity's actively managed Total Bond ETF, adding credit and duration to tokenized fixed income instead of short-dated Treasuries.
OKXICE files with SEC to trade 63 tokenized stocks via Uniswap v4 pools
The OKX-ICE venture would route stock trading through permissioned pools on X Layer; Cerebras has filed an objection to being included.