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Finance

Tokenization Firm Superstate Gets $14M Investment to Bring Traditional Funds On-Chain

The company has earmarked the funds for team expansion, creating private funds for institutional investors and crafting a framework for tokenized public funds that U.S. clients can access.

Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate (Superstate)

Finance

Blockchain Startup Kinto Plans 'First KYC'd' Ethereum Layer-2 Network After Raising $5M

Ethereum layer 2 Kinto network features native know-your-customer (KYC) checks and investor accreditation mechanism to help onboard regulated financial institutions.

Ramon Recuero, Kinto CEO and co-founder (Kinto)

Finance

Meet Midas: A New Yield-Bearing Stablecoin Investing in U.S. Treasuries

The proposed stablecoin, which tokenizes ownership of Treasuries, mentions BlackRock, Circle, Fireblocks and Coinfirm as "institutional partners."

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Finance

HSBC to Offer Tokenized Securities Custody Service for Institutions

The platform, planned for 2024, complements its new offering for tokenized gold as well as one for issuing digital assets.

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Markets

Tokenized U.S. Treasury Market Grows Nearly 600% to $698M as Crypto's RWA Race Intensifies

Ethereum has toppled Stellar as the top blockchain for tokenized government bonds while more recent entrants Solana and Polygon also grew.

Tokenized Treasuries market (RWA.xyz)

Policy

Singapore, Japan, U.K., Swiss Regulators Plan Asset Tokenization Pilots

Project Guardian seeks to advance digital asset tokenization pilots for fixed income, foreign exchange and asset management products.

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Tech

Floki Pounces on Trillion Dollar RWA Narrative With New TokenFi Platform

“The tokenization industry is projected to be a $16 trillion industry by the year 2030,” Floki lead developer ‘B’ told CoinDesk in a Telegram message.

A Shiba inu, the dog breed that inspired both DOGE and SHIB, is getting a ride in cryptocurrency markets. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto's Darkest Hour, and the Bright Day Ahead

There really is a crypto future worth fighting for if we can just leave the crypto clowns behind.

(Aleksandr Barsukov/Unsplash)

Finance

Euroclear Unveils RWA Tokenization Service With World Bank's 100M Euros Digital Bond Issuance

The digital bond was issued on R3's Corda blockchain, while global bank Citi and investment manager TD Securities assisted in the issuance.

The World Bank Group sign in Washington, D.C. (Victorgrigas)

Finance

Tokenization of RWAs Gets Boost With DTCC Deal to Buy Blockchain Startup Securrency

Securrency provides institutions with blockchain-based regulatory technology on top of existing legacy systems to enable digital asset adoption in a compliant manner.

DTCC is probing the implications of a digital dollar (Kachura Oleg/Getty Images)