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Representing off-chain assets—like Treasuries, real estate, and equities—as blockchain tokens to enable fractional ownership, trading, and settlement.
Franklin Templeton holds about $1.5 billion, or 59.8%, of its roughly $2.55 billion in onchain fund assets on BNB Chain, Crypto Briefing reported. The other nine chains split about $1.03 billion, roughly $114 million each on average.
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IMF research finds more than 85% of overnight moves in tokenized U.S. stocks show up in the listed shares within five minutes of the open. The fund still wants ownership rules settled before a market this thin grows much larger.
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Paxos Labs, Theo and EnSub are pitching metal lending and oil tokens to grow a tokenized commodities market CoinGecko valued at $5.55 billion in March. Each adds borrower or storage risk to a price bet, and those risks will set how far the market grows past gold.
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XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation went live Oct. 8, letting institutions hand specific transaction rights to other accounts without sharing primary keys. Because the grants cannot carry spending limits, institutions keep their own checks on how much a delegate sends.
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Large issuers led by Ondo, Kraken's xStocks and Binance bStocks hold about 81% of $2.93 billion in tokenized stocks via offshore SPVs, RWA.xyz data shows. A holder's claim runs to the vehicle and not to the company behind the share, so issuer, custodian and governing law become part of what the buyer owns.
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Outside issuers have tokenized an estimated $314 million to $345 million of Circle's stock, about 1.7% of its market value, Crypto Briefing reported. Token holders are not shareholders of record, so each token's tie to the $80-to-$82 share depends on the firm that wrapped it.
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Pendle Finance opened a fixed-yield market on srnOPAL, the senior tranche of BlackOpal's Brazilian card-receivables vault, quoting an 11.59% APY. With roughly 15% of junior capital taking losses first, buyers are underwriting Brazilian card credit and BlackOpal's off-chain reporting.
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Wallets holding tokenized commodities rose to 452,931 from about 126,000 a year ago, according to rwa.xyz data. Most of the new arrivals are opening small accounts on cheaper chains, while about 95% of the sector's $5.16 billion stays on Ethereum.
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Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson called rival tokenized funds "digital twins" at TOKEN2049, pricing BENJI transactions at $1.13 against roughly $150. Her January earnings call gave different numbers, so where a fund keeps its ownership record is the firmer test.
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BitGo and HashKey Cloud widened their July staking deal into trading, custody and tokenized assets, with staking starting on ETH and SOL. No fees, launch dates, first clients or asset targets were given, so the first test is BitGo's own staking figures.
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Tether signed a non-binding MoU with Kazakhstan's central bank on a tenge stablecoin and pilots in Alatau City, where up to $60 million is to be tokenized. Nothing has been approved, and the parties have yet to choose an issuer, a blockchain or a reserve structure for the token.
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Navra, the new company of SoFi and Figure co-founder Mike Cagney, raised a $19 million Series A led by Ribbit for a self-custody front end to on-chain yield. Whether banks take it white-label will test if it is a neutral gateway or a sales channel for Figure, which Cagney chairs.
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The oracle deal is the part that lets Apple and NVIDIA tokens be liquidated, which is the part that lets them be borrowed against. The wrapper sits in Abu Dhabi, and US residents are excluded.
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Securitize shares rose nearly 8% to about $12.60 after it agreed with LG CNS to build tokenized funds and stablecoins for Korean institutions. Each planned product still needs regulatory sign-off under a law that takes effect Feb. 4, 2027.
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Ondo Finance launched notes that let eligible non-U.S. investors trade exposure to an unnamed pre-IPO AI company around the clock. Each token is an issuer's promise to pay, so a buyer has to price that counterparty and the thin disclosure around it as well as the company.
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Cardano's CIP-113 token standard, merged on Sept. 29, lets an issuer's freeze on one asset block unrelated tokens and ADA held in the same output. Wallets and lenders have to decide how they bundle assets before a freeze, since the issuer's rules can forbid splitting them afterward.
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Tokenized stocks hit a record $3.8 billion, beating the top of a $3.5 billion to $3.7 billion forecast, with BNB Chain holding the largest share. Its lead over Ethereum in earlier snapshots was $170 million to $350 million, close enough for one issuer's flows to reverse.
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Paxos Labs launched PaxGy, a token built on the $2 billion PAXG that lends its gold to institutional borrowers so holdings grow in ounces. The extra metal comes from borrowers, so a holder takes on their credit risk as well as the gold price PAXG tracks.
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Ondo Finance launched three tokens that each hold a rebalanced basket of its tokenized stocks and ETFs, using strategies BlackRock designed. Using the tokens as DeFi collateral is so far only a possibility Ondo has named.
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Standard Chartered has placed a dedicated DeFi research desk beside its ETF and stablecoin access, citing DeFi value locked that reached $114bn in 2025. The move makes on-chain research part of the access layer the bank sells, grouped with the custody and trading it already offers.
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