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The evolving U.S. legal framework governing how tokens, tokenized securities, and DeFi platforms are classified under securities and broker-dealer custody law.
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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Coinbase's Layer-2 put four US megacaps onchain in August with about $4.5 million minted on day one under Abu Dhabi custody rules. It now wants outside teams to bring hard-to-reach local listings the same way.
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Coinbase reports $228 million of cumulative volume across ten equity tokens on Base, with one early day close to half that total. Alpaca holds the underlying shares under Abu Dhabi oversight, and Regulation S keeps US persons out.
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The commission declared most coin offerings securities in 2018 and squelched a market that had raised more than $20bn that year. Its proposed exemption for smaller issuers hands that mechanic a rulebook.
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Repeat 12-month raises are permitted, and each buys a fresh offering statement plus years of reports. The SEC's own estimate is roughly 130 offerings a year.
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Hayden Adams calls tokenization the next test for automated market makers. The composition of the $18 billion already on-chain, and a fresh SIFMA warning, suggest it may not go his way.
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Regulation Crypto Assets gives token issuers offering exemptions they can budget against. The decentralization off-ramp that matters more is still specified in conditionals.
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An enforcement retreat, a rescinded custody bulletin and a fresh rulemaking improve the arithmetic for US digital-asset firms. None of it needed Congress, and none of it binds a successor.
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A single $2.3M QQQon buy got the attention, but the consequential fact is 430-plus tokenized equities now serving as DeFi lending collateral on Morpho and Euler.
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The SEC killed its Regulation Crypto Assets meeting three days after calling it. Sources point to the White House, and to SIFMA weighing a challenge to the agency's authority.
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Reality Protocol's rNVDA is backed 1:1 by stock at a FINRA-registered broker with continuous attestations. That is a different product from the synthetic equity tokens that came before.
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