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CFTC Staff Expands Crypto FAQ to Cover Tokenized Customer Funds and Blockchain Recordkeeping
CFTC staff updated its crypto FAQ on September 24 to cover investing customer funds in tokenized permitted investments and using blockchain to meet recordkeeping rules, building on earlier tokenized-collateral guidance.
Solana Foundation Hires Ex-Binance CMO and a Polygon Payments Lead for Two New Senior Roles
The Solana Foundation named ex-Binance marketing chief Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer and former Polygon Labs executive Jamal Raees as general manager of payments, in a self-published announcement.
Ondo puts three "BlackRock-powered" portfolio tokens onchain — with BlackRock disclaiming most of the work
Ondo Finance launched three tokenized model portfolios built on nondiscretionary strategies from BlackRock, available only to eligible investors outside the U.S.
Cardano Foundation and Fireblocks say native tokens will get full custody support by March 2027
The Cardano Foundation and custody firm Fireblocks said native Cardano tokens will become fully supported assets on Fireblocks, with the feature expected by March 2027.
MoonPay to buy North Capital, adding SEC registrations for its tokenization push
MoonPay says it will acquire SEC-registered private-markets platform North Capital in an all-stock deal that CoinDesk sources value at more than $60 million, pending regulatory approval.
S&P Global buys OpenZeppelin, moving from rating token issuers to auditing their code
S&P Global has agreed to buy smart-contract auditor OpenZeppelin for undisclosed terms, extending the ratings company's onchain risk push from rating token issuers to rating the code they run on.
Matter Labs open-sources Prividium's core engine, with the Bundesbank as first tester
Matter Labs open-sourced the permissioning engine of Prividium, its ledger platform for banks, and said Germany's Bundesbank is the first institution testing the code in its own infrastructure.
SEC Moves to Rewrite 1980s-Era Transfer Agent Rules, Citing Blockchain
The SEC voted to propose the first substantive overhaul of its transfer-agent rules since the early 1980s, explicitly citing blockchain and electronic recordkeeping, with a 60-day comment window to follow.
Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund lands on HashKey — professional investors only
HashKey Exchange said Monday it has listed Franklin Templeton's tokenized U.S. government liquidity fund on its Earn channel in Hong Kong, restricted to professional investors only.
Solana says Bullish ran the first tokenized equity trade on a regulated venue. Almost every detail is missing.
Solana's official account says exchange operator Bullish completed the first tokenized equity trade on a regulated digital asset venue using its own BLSH shares, but disclosed no size, price, date or transaction record.
Tokenized Invesco Treasury fund shares go live as collateral on Kamino
Kamino says tokenized shares of Invesco's $950M short-duration Treasury fund, issued by Superstate as USTB, can now be posted as collateral in its Solana lending markets, though loan terms went undisclosed.
Securitize and Neuberger tokenize a high-yield credit fund on Solana, with nearly every term undisclosed
Securitize and Neuberger have launched HINC, a tokenized high-yield credit fund on Solana, but the announcement disclosed no fund size, fees, minimums or redemption terms.
Robinhood Chain's deposits are climbing. Its tokenized-stocks pitch isn't.
Total value locked on Robinhood Chain topped $540 million in mid-August, up more than 45% this month, while tokenized real-world assets shrank to 6% of the chain from roughly a third on July 7.
R3 says Corda networks are now wired to Solana. The announcement is a video, not a spec sheet
R3 says Corda's permissioned networks can now reach Solana's public liquidity, with SIX Group involved, but the announcement names no assets, counterparties, volumes or go-live date.
SEC staff clears Franklin Templeton's traditional funds to park cash in its own onchain money fund
SEC staff issued Franklin Templeton a no-action letter letting its conventional mutual funds and ETFs hold shares of its blockchain-based FOBXX money fund for cash management without meeting certain 1940 Act custody conditions.
Securitize misses in first quarter as a public company; shares drop 20% despite record tokenized AUM
Securitize's first quarterly report since its July SPAC listing showed revenue down 5% to $14.4 million against a $20.6 million consensus, and shares fell 20% after hours even as tokenized assets and transaction volume hit records.
Itaú enters ANBIMA tokenization pilot with OpenAssets — a vendor part-backed by the bank's founding family
Itaú Unibanco and infrastructure firm OpenAssets said Tuesday they have begun a tokenized bond and fund pilot run by Brazilian markets body ANBIMA, with no size or timeline disclosed.
Coinbase says it has an Abu Dhabi licence for tokenized securities
Coinbase says Abu Dhabi's FSRA granted it a Financial Services Permission to arrange deals in and custody tokenized securities, making the emirate its international tokenization base.
Standard Chartered puts a $200 tag on LINK by 2030, and shows its arithmetic
Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Chainlink with a $200 end-2030 target for LINK, roughly 25 times its current $8, built on a forecast that tokenized assets reach $4 trillion by 2028.
Tokenized real-world assets grew to $7.4 billion while the rest of DeFi shrank, CoinShares report says
A CoinShares and Token Terminal report says tokenized real-world asset deposits into lending markets and DEXs rose from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion year over year while total DeFi deposits fell about 15%.
Ondo Finance founder's estate sues CEO over control of the company
Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman's estate has sued in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging CEO Ian De Bode improperly took control of the tokenization firm after Allman's death in May.
Tokenized real-world assets tripled to $7.4B in DeFi while the rest of DeFi shrank, CoinShares says
A CoinShares and Token Terminal report says tokenized real-world assets in DeFi lending and DEXs grew from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion year over year while total DeFi deposits shrank about 15%.
Backpack lists a tokenized Take-Two stock on Solana, one day before Take-Two reports earnings
Backpack Securities listed a tokenized Take-Two stock on Solana hours before the company's earnings, with no named brokerage partner, regulator, supply figure or fee schedule disclosed.
Circle beats on profit, misses on revenue, and puts Wall Street names on its Arc validator set
Circle beat profit estimates but missed on revenue for Q2 2026, and named BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Visa and Mastercard as founding validators for its Arc blockchain, which launches Sept. 16.
BlackRock's "BRSRV" surfaces in an SEC filing link — announced by Solana, not BlackRock
Solana's official X account announced that BlackRock filed with the SEC for a tokenized "stablecoin reserve" vehicle called BRSRV, pointing to a single EDGAR document and no BlackRock statement.
Solana touts a $1.6B tokenized card market. The numbers are its own.
Solana's own news arm says Collector Crypt has crossed $1.6 billion in volume tokenizing vaulted trading cards, part of a fast-growing but self-reported market with unnamed custodians and unaudited numbers.
Ondo is said to be weighing a $250M–$500M acquisition. Ondo says it isn't in talks with anyone.
A single CoinDesk report citing one anonymous source says the tokenization firm is weighing a $250 million to $500 million acquisition, possibly in wealthtech; Ondo says it is not in talks with anyone.
Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain grow fivefold to ~$70M — but still under a tenth of the chain's trading
Tokenized real-world assets on Robinhood Chain rose to about $70 million, roughly fivefold in under two weeks, though memecoins and stablecoins still account for most of the network's near-$600 million daily volume.
Mubadala Capital puts a private-markets fund onchain with $75M in commitments; Coinbase takes a stake
Mubadala Capital has tokenized a private-markets fund across Base, Solana and Sui through a provider called KAIO, drawing $75M in commitments, with Coinbase taking a stake, according to CoinDesk.
Citadel Securities buys into Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, its second exchange stake in eight months
Citadel Securities put $400 million into Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional raise, earmarked to expand tokenized stocks, derivatives and prediction markets.
Solana claims No. 1 spot for real-world-asset holders at 300K — a headline about wallets, not dollars
Solana's official account said the network passed 300,000 real-world-asset holders, claiming the top spot by holder count, citing analytics outlet SolanaFloor — a milestone about wallet numbers, not asset value.
Robinhood built a chain for tokenized stocks. Two weeks in, memecoins own it
Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 launched July 1 to host tokenized stocks, has drawn heavy early traffic driven mostly by memecoins, with real-world assets making up roughly $13 million of activity.
SK Hynix's $26.5B Nasdaq debut gets tokenized on Telegram and Solana within a day
SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq ADR listing went live Friday, and crypto firms including Telegram's built-in wallet moved quickly to offer tokenized versions of the stock.
SK Hynix's Nasdaq debut arrives on Solana the same day — via three tokenized-stock issuers
SK Hynix debuted an American Depositary Receipt on Nasdaq and, per Solana's own announcement, three issuers simultaneously launched tokenized versions of the stock for 24/7 trading on Solana.
Tokenized SpaceX shares drive on-chain equity trading to a record $3.86B in June
On-chain tokenized-equity trading jumped 145% to a record $3.86 billion in June, with tokenized SpaceX shares alone accounting for $1.19 billion after the company's $75 billion IPO, per a CoinDesk Data report.
Ondo says traders can now post tokenized stocks as collateral on its perps platform
Ondo Finance opened pre-alpha access to a perpetual-futures platform that lets non-U.S. traders post tokenized stocks as collateral, a claim reported by The Block and sourced to Ondo's own announcement.
Vanguard, long crypto's loudest skeptic, advertises for a head of digital assets
Vanguard has posted a job ad for a head of digital assets to build a multi-year crypto strategy and represent the firm with regulators — a shift for a manager that once called Bitcoin an "immature asset class.
Ethereum Foundation pitches itself to governments as "neutral" public infrastructure
The Ethereum Foundation published a non-technical policy guide urging governments to treat decentralized public blockchains as neutral infrastructure for identity, records and tokenization — while pitching Ethereum over rivals.
New York Life's asset manager puts a junk-bond fund on-chain with Centrifuge — but not for anyone in the U.S.
New York Life Investment Management tokenized its high-yield corporate bond strategy with Centrifuge, settling in USDC but structuring the fund offshore under Reg S so U.S. investors are excluded.
New York Life's Investment Arm Reported to Launch Its First Tokenized Bond Fund — but the Details Aren't in Front of Us
Decrypt reported that New York Life Investment Management launched its first tokenized bond fund, but no primary announcement, fund size, blockchain, or custody details were confirmed.
Symbiotic Rebrands From Restaking to "Collateral Markets" With Core V2 Launch
Symbiotic launched Core V2 on Wednesday, rebranding from restaking to shared "collateral markets" that pool capital across lending, insurance and tokenized-asset vaults, per The Block.