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Canton Network is a privacy-enabled blockchain for institutional finance, used by banks and exchanges to settle tokenized assets and cash.
Meritz Securities and the Canton Foundation signed an MoU on Oct. 15 to explore tokenized Korean debt, collateral and cross-border liquidity. The release describes exploratory work with no completed transaction, and how far it goes depends on Korea's regulators.
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Tokenized repurchase agreements average $300 billion to $350 billion a day, the IMF said in its October 8 Global Financial Stability Report. Against the $13 trillion a day some analyses cite for US repo, that comes to 2 to 3 percent of the flow, on venues the fund calls fragmented and short of legal clarity.
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Paxos added XRP, a token worth nearly $95 billion, to its Crypto Brokerage platform on October 7, opening it to clients such as PayPal and Schwab. Retail buyers get it only when a partner lists it, a step Schwab's August token plan did not take.
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Lloyds polled 100 senior UK finance decision-makers and 60% named faster settlement as tokenization's biggest opportunity, ahead of collateral at 41%. The poll points to a payoff counted in freed liquidity, and the banks' first sizeable test comes with bond issues planned for early 2027.
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DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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Lloyds settled $750,000 of cross-border dollar obligations with Visa in USDC over a seven-day pilot, and the funds landed in under an hour even at weekends. The pilot moved settlement between two regulated institutions onto a rail that runs around the clock, but at too small a size to show what it costs.
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LSEG has become a Super Validator on the Canton Network, with a maximum reward weight of 10 held in escrow. The seat gives the owner of the DiSH cash service, already an application on Canton, a vote on the network's rules.
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HIFI raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital for rails that settle the dollar side of tokenized trades around the clock. The settlement work is already running on those rails, but HIFI's own volume figures look more like payouts than settlement.
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At least six overseas blockchains signed payment and tokenization deals with Korean banks, brokerages and asset managers in the 93 days to Sept. 23. Many are still memorandums or pilots, and Shinhan Asset Management alone works with three of the networks, so Korean buyers are keeping their options open.
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Arc's mainnet went live on September 16 with USDC as its gas token and BlackRock, Visa and Mastercard among the validators, and Circle's product chief says the growth has to come from AI agents; shifting Ethereum's existing users across would not grow the market.
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SBI Digital Practice sent a yen-linked test token to Kyobo Life and it arrived as a won-linked one, with no dollar in between. The run happened in a Canton test environment between two companies SBI Holdings part-owns.
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The index house behind the S&P 500 led the investment that took Kaiko to $110 million in total funding. Subtract the three earlier rounds and the new money is about $28 million, going into a partner whose product had already shipped.
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Hanwha's tokenized securities platform runs on Avalanche now, while the Korean law that makes ledger records a securities register starts on February 4, 2027, and starts with private placements rather than listed stock.
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A live conversion of eligible Treasuries and equities into digital twins put real repo trades through more than 30 firms, with one OCC-regulated custodian holding the tokens and an October 2026 launch still to reach.
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Binance's bStocks passed xStocks in under two months to become the second-largest issuer. The category grew roughly 34x in a year, and the leaderboard now rewards whoever already owns the order flow.
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