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Representing conventional securities, including fund shares, as blockchain records while preserving the underlying legal instrument.
OKX has filed with the SEC to launch tokenized-stock trading in the US, Bloomberg reported, aiming at buyers barred from its 70-plus ticker offshore line. The SEC's new exemption admits only tokens with dividends and votes, so the synthetic product it sells abroad would need rebuilding first.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission proposed rules on October 1 letting stocks, bonds and funds trade as tokens from February 4, 2027. Comments close November 11, while bills from both main parties would push the January 1 crypto income tax back as far as 2030.
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Robinhood's Johann Kerbrat says its offshore stock-token turnover is already high enough to hit some caps in the SEC's September 17 Innovation Exemption. The larger obstacle is the product itself, a Jersey-issued debt note the order excludes, so a US version must first be rebuilt to carry full shareholder rights.
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Blockchain.com is seeking about $500 million from a US listing at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, below the $7 billion its 2023 round set. The range opens at roughly the $4 billion that secondary trades already imply, so tokenized stocks and prediction markets have to justify every dollar above it.
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SEC's Innovation Exemption gives permissioned AMM trading of tokenized US-listed stocks five years of conditional relief, to September 2031. Every stock needs its issuer's consent to trade, so listed companies control how much evidence on DeFi's efficiency claims the window produces.
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Korea will open its token securities market in February while the stablecoin bill needed for on-chain settlement still has no committee hearing date. Until stablecoins are linked to the securities ledger, overseas buyers must convert currency and remit through banks to buy Korean tokens.
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Kakao Pay Securities and Dinari are testing whether Korea Exchange shares can reach overseas buyers, chiefly in the U.S., as one-to-one backed tokens. Each token needs a real Korean share behind it in custody, so the trial mostly tests how those shares are sourced and held.
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Ondo Finance is selling three BlackRock-modelled portfolio tokens issued by a British Virgin Islands entity that alone owes holders anything. A buyer paying for the BlackRock name holds Ondo's paper, and BlackRock's part is limited to designing the allocation.
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Blockchain.com is seeking about $500 million in a U.S. IPO at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, against a $14 billion peak in 2022. Most of that discount was already taken in a private round in 2023.
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Three federal agencies moved on crypto rules within 48 hours of the Senate's 49-50 vote that stalled the Clarity Act. Only the stablecoin rules sit on a statute, so businesses using the SEC and CFTC relief hold permissions a later administration can withdraw.
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HIFI raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital for rails that settle the dollar side of tokenized trades around the clock. The settlement work is already running on those rails, but HIFI's own volume figures look more like payouts than settlement.
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Tokenized stocks hit $4.43 billion by Sept. 15, up 390% this year per Binance Research, two days before the SEC introduced its exemption. About 7.5% of it is deployed on-chain, and the first US venue is expected as early as the fourth quarter.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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At least six overseas blockchains signed payment and tokenization deals with Korean banks, brokerages and asset managers in the 93 days to Sept. 23. Many are still memorandums or pilots, and Shinhan Asset Management alone works with three of the networks, so Korean buyers are keeping their options open.
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SEC exemptions issued September 17 let permissioned AMM pools trade tokenized US stocks for five years without exchange, ATS or dealer registration. The order is interim and open to comment, so teams building now are designing to AMM-only, OFAC-screened terms the SEC can still rewrite.
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CFTC Chair Mike Selig says his agency will write crypto rules under existing law, with two prerules already filed at the White House. Decrypt's newsletter argues the agency can reach leveraged products such as perpetual futures, while spot trading still needs Congress.
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The CFTC sent a crypto rulemaking to the White House the same day, both agencies working from authority they already hold. A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is arguing the states should keep theirs.
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The order carves out a new category called a tokenized securities venue, caps how many symbols and how much volume it can trade, and requires public smart contracts while the Commission drafts permanent rules.
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Coinbase, Robinhood and Gemini already run tokenized stock trading abroad. The SEC's conditions on holder rights and issuer objection now tell them what a US version has to do, for the next five years.
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SEBI and the Reserve Bank of India now have 10.25 billion rupees of corporate debt live on a permissioned ledger settled in wholesale digital rupees, with the depositories holding the private keys and 23 investors holding the bonds.
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