Tokenized Assets


Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Pendulum Swings Toward Doubters

In recent weeks, the buzz around the emerging tool of tokenizing real-world assets has been on how it will grow to achieve the $16 trillion-by-2030 potential that the Boston Consulting Group predicted last year. Inevitably, criticism intrudes, and this week there is sober opinion, caution and skepticism in the zeitgeist.

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Finance

Maple Finance's Tokenized Treasuries Available to U.S. Investors After Securities Exemption

The platform's cash management facility has attracted $22 million of deposits since opened in April.

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Finance

Asset Tokenization in Europe Gets a Boost With Securitize's Landmark Tokenized Equity Issuance

The firm started issuing tokens representing equity in a Spanish real estate investment trust under Spain’s new digital asset supervision.

Securitize co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo (Securitize)

Learn

RWA Tokenization: What Does It Mean to Tokenize Real-World Assets?

Traditional finance giants are excited about the idea of putting ownership of assets like precious metals, art, homes and more on the blockchain.

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Markets

Avalanche Foundation Commits $50M to Bring More Tokenized Assets to Blockchain

The program follows Avalanche’s initiative to financial institutions to test blockchain services on one of its subnets.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Real-World Assets Come to Blockchains

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Markets

MakerDAO Votes to Halt Lending to Tokenized Credit Pool After $2M Loan Default

The embattled Harbor Trade credit pool minted $1.5 million of DAI stablecoin secured with loans to a consumer electronics firm, which defaulted on $2.1 million of debt.

Rune Christensen, fundador de MakerDAO. (CoinDesk TV)

Markets

More Tokenized Treasuries Arrive on Polygon as Digital Bond Market Expands

Ondo’s OUSG token, one of the largest on-chain tokenized Treasury products, has accrued $134 million of assets under management on Ethereum.

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Markets

Tokenized U.S. Treasurys Surpass $600M as Crypto Investors Capture TradFi Yield

Crypto investors now effectively lend $614 million to the U.S. government via different tokenized Treasury products, according to real-world asset data firm RWA.xyz.

Market for tokenized Treasuries (RWA.xyz)

Finance

Index Coop Aims to Improve Limitations of Protocol, On-Chain Structured Products

The infrastructure limitations of this sector include a lack of cross-chain asset support, expense in maintaining products due to high issuance costs and difficulty rebalancing on-chain products due to slippage.

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