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The process of issuing digital tokens on blockchains that represent ownership rights in real-world assets such as funds, securities, and real estate.
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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Weekly volume in decentralized RWA perpetual futures reached $39.8 billion in October, up from $22.8 billion in late August, Cryptopolitan reported. The report has Variational's share rising from 10.6% to 32%, yet TradeXYZ's $12.73 billion is also 32% of that total.
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Ripple has signed Meritz Securities to explore custody and tokenization, its fourth Korean partner of 2026 and the first securities firm. The work starts inside Meritz's existing permissions and has no launch date.
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Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said tokenizing collateral could free tens of billions of dollars tied up across the financial system. Quartz reported Nasdaq's venture arm committed $100 million to Kraken's parent Payward in September, with tokenized Nasdaq-listed stocks due in the second quarter of 2027.
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IMF officials said privacy risks in central bank digital money can be managed through regulation and design, as protest banners went up at the Bank of Korea. Their comments give the central bank an outside voice to cite while it keeps building Project Hangang.
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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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XRP Ledger's Batch amendment has 30 of 35 trusted validators behind it and a projected Oct. 9 start for bundles of up to eight transactions. Bundles cost more in fees than separate sends, and a security fix due that morning forces server operators to update.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the Senate's Sept. 15 failure to advance the Clarity Act helped crypto, citing Bitcoin's roughly 8% gain since the vote. Half of his case is the status quo outliving the bill, and the rest is SEC relief that future regulators can change.
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Cboe renewed its exclusive S&P 500 options licence with S&P Dow Jones Indices to 2051, keeping a market that traded a record 970.6 million contracts in 2025. The tokenized-options language in the 25-year deal commits neither firm to a product, so the value anyone can count today sits in the existing contract.
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CFTC staff cleared registered firms on September 24 to invest customer funds in tokenized forms of permitted investments and to keep their books on a blockchain. The update came days after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act, but it only changes the form assets take and leaves the CFTC-SEC split to Congress.
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Galaxy Digital moved $100 million, about 4% of its cash and stablecoins, into Sky's sUSDS and opened the token as loan collateral. Galaxy already borrows from Sky's lending agents, so the purchase deepens a funding tie with its own creditor.
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The paper proposes standardized digital claims on compute as tools for financing and settlement, and puts hyperscaler cloud revenue at roughly $1.1 trillion a year by 2030 while calling such markets largely speculative at this stage.
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DLX went live on September 9 and the US wealth platform followed on September 14, while the tokenized repo business Broadridge already runs clears more than $351 billion a day. Ondo Finance and Galaxy Digital sit on the same side of the table.
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Paul Atkins argued for round-the-clock US equities by pointing to clearing, price-band and market-data work the industry has already done, while noting that the views were his own.
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In a Forbes Tech Council column, IRALOGIX CTO Charlie Gautreaux says the live capability sits on a transfer-agency book of about $8.6 trillion and 7.6 million investor accounts, and he names three tests of whether it holds.
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The Milan lender is reviewing providers that could hold client digital assets and handle purchases and sales. It has already taken roughly 16 percent of BlockInvest and a minority of VC Trade, and the talks are early.
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Token Terminal puts tokenized equity and ETF deposits across DeFi at $67.6m, most of it on Solana. One Solana lending market, Kamino Lend, holds $41.7m of that, and the published chain-level figures do not sum to the stated total.
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Token Terminal's September 12 snapshot counts 47 tokenized asset classes worth $346.1bn, with USD stablecoins supplying $298.5bn of that and the two main trackers disagreeing about the rest by roughly $9bn.
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The existing entity keeps operating as MetaMask with Joe Lubin as chief executive, while the protocols business goes out as a newly formed company aimed at a tokenized market Citi sizes at 5.5 to 8.2 trillion dollars by 2030.
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Bitmine's 5,929,198 ETH is worth about $14.79bn at $2,495 a token, against $15.7bn of total assets, and the $330m of staking revenue the company projects is the smaller half of that arithmetic.
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