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Institutional plumbing around digital assets, including how traditional financial gatekeepers treat crypto exposure.
Monthly volume in tokenized equities went from $1B in January to $9B, with most of the move in June and July. The product did not change. The front ends did.
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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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Tether Gold took $237M of the 30-day inflow at a $2.48B cap. XAUT and Paxos Gold together hold 93-97% of the category, and that concentration is the thing to underwrite.
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MSCI dropped its crypto-specific exclusion test, but the replacement simulation still deleted Strategy, Metaplanet and Yellow Cake from ACWI IMI. Feedback closes end-September, results mid-October.
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