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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.
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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The relief arrives by default if nobody requests a hearing, which leaves the fee as the open question: strip out distribution charges and all three existing classes cost the same 2.75%, and the tokenized one is blank.
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Nasdaq and The ValueExchange peg the operating-cost saving from tokenized collateral at about 12%, a ratio published without the cost base or the build cost that would turn it into money. Banks are being asked to treat it as a P&L line anyway.
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Adam Aron wants trading stopped and has AMC's securities lawyers on it, but the obligor on the instrument is Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited, so the holder's contract was never with AMC and the demand letter has no counterparty to name.
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Weekly meme coin volume on Robinhood's layer-2 rose to $3.5bn in late August, and the Solana base that figure is measured against sat near $42bn in both weeks, so the gain is share taken, not a market growing.
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The exchange took an ADGM permission to arrange deals and custody tokenized securities. That is real plumbing, but the case for the UAE as the default institutional base still rests on licence counts.
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An ADGM permission to arrange deals and hold digital assets turns tokenization talk into a supervised product line. What is still missing is an issuer list and a date.
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Invest · August 18, 2026 · 1 publisher