TREE NEWS update: Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission unveiled a five-year strategic action plan that includes a new digital asset licensing regime in the near term, alongside digital asset custody supervision, CrypTech market surveillance and anti-money-laundering capacity building. Over the medium to long term it will consider a regulatory framework for tokenized investment products covering tokenized gold and other real-world assets. The SFC will also support the Hong Kong government in building a central gold clearing and settlement system and developing renminbi-denominated gold and commodity products.
Hong Kong SFC to Launch New Digital Asset Licensing Regime, Plans Tokenized Gold Rules
The sequencing is the signal: licensing, custody and surveillance come first, while tokenized gold and other real-world assets stay a medium-to-long-term consideration. That ordering suggests Hong Kong wants supervised intermediaries and market integrity in place before tokenized products scale, rather than letting product innovation outrun oversight. The gold-clearing and renminbi-denominated commodity angle ties the digital asset agenda to broader commodity and currency infrastructure. Whether the tokenized RWA framework moves from consideration to concrete rules is the open question.
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