Real World Assets


Finance

Why Asset Tokenization Is Inevitable

On-chain real-world assets and the integration of wallet infrastructure will replace intermediaries and become standard in the modern asset management lifecycle, says Mehdi Brahimi, head of institutional business at L1.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Woo X Claims a First With Tokenized Treasury Bills for Retail Investors

The Woo X RWA Earn Vaults have been built in partnership with institutional tokenization firm OpenTrade.

DeFi, T-bill, Yield, Paradigm

Finance

Ondo Finance Brings Tokenized Treasuries to the Cosmos Ecosystem with Noble Integration

Introducing Ondo Finance's offerings to Cosmos "will bring vastly improved utility and liquidity to appchains and their users, all while offering exposure to yielding instruments," Ondo's founder Nathan Allman said.

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Finance

Tokenized Credit Platform Centrifuge Plans Institutional RWA Lending on Coinbase's Base, Raises $15M in VC Investment

CFG, the protocol's native token, spiked as much as 14% after the announcement before paring gains and outperformed other DeFi tokens.

Centrifuge is one of the largest blockchain-based credit platform with $270 million of active loans. (Mae Mu/Unsplash)

Finance

Max Boonen's PV01 Tokenizes $5M Treasury Bill, Plans to Look at Corporate Bonds

The company aims to bring corporate bonds to blockchain rails, which could have averted a similar credit meltdown to what happened in crypto in 2022, CEO and co-founder Max Boonen said in an interview.

Maxime Boonen, co-founder of B2C2 and PV01 (PV01)

Finance

Homium Raises $10M and Tokenizes Home Equity Loans on Avalanche

The loans are currently live in Colorado with plans to extend to other states.

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Markets

BlackRock's Tokenized Fund Quickly Rakes in $245M, Right Behind Franklin Templeton's Older Offering

The tokenized U.S. Treasury market is poised to reach $1 billion "very soon" given the growth of BlackRock's BUIDL, an analyst noted.

Larry Fink (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Markets

Ondo Finance to Move $95M to BlackRock's Tokenized Fund for Instant Settlements for Its T-Bill Token

The allocation marks to first example of a crypto protocol leveraging BlackRock's tokenized fund for its own offering.

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Markets

The Benefits of Assets Tokenization

We need to start thinking of blockchains as infrastructure for financial innovation rather than concentrating on the prices of a few digital assets, like bitcoin and ether, says WisdomTree’s digital of digital assets, Benjamin Dean.

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Finance

Diamonds Arrive on a Blockchain With New Tokenized Fund on Avalanche Network

The tokenization of real-world assets – or placing traditional assets onto blockchain rails – is a growing trend in crypto with global financial giants entering the space.

Diamonds (Edgar Soto/Unsplash)