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TREE NEWS reports: Citrini Research said in a paid report that tokenized assets and AI agents make crypto a fundamentals trade, and that it does not assume bitcoin or ether will reach new highs on the theme. The firm pointed to revenue-accruing tokens and equities as better ways to gain exposure.

TREE NEWS update: Arcus, the decentralized exchange built by the dYdX team on Robinhood Chain, launched its Season 1 points program on October 1, distributing a fixed 250,000 points weekly. In the first week, 9,659 addresses earned points on about $2.94 billion in volume, with a median of just 1.53 points and an average of 25.88. The top 100 addresses took 44.78% of the week’s points.

TREE NEWS update: Ondo has opened trading in OPAIPon, a private-market note linked to OpenAI, with the token showing a $1,132 price and a 0.49% spread on its launch day. Access is restricted to qualifying non-US investors.

TREE NEWS update: Kyrgyzstan is winding down its gold-backed USDKG stablecoin following UK sanctions. Holders can request redemption in fiat or USDT as the project prepares to retire its tokens. The documents leave the disposition of the gold reserves unspecified.

TREE NEWS update: Securitize shares rose more than 10% after the firm launched tokenized US equities on Solana, giving eligible investors access to tokenized shares of 12 US companies. The offering carries dividend and voting rights, and the company plans round-the-clock trading.

TREE NEWS update: Solana DEX Orca and Solana lending platform Loopscale will merge and operate under a new brand, Formation. The New York-based company aims to finance AI, energy, robotics and defense assets, with the goal of eventually reaching regulated U.S. markets.

TREE NEWS reports: The IMF found tokenized equity markets are less liquid and more volatile than traditional markets, even as demand for 24/7 trading grows. The global financial institution warned that tokenized markets could amplify financial risks.

TREE NEWS update: Securitize has launched Securitize Stocks, a tokenized equities product debuting with 12 names including Nvidia, Apple and Amazon, each backed one-to-one by real shares with dividends and voting rights preserved. The tokens trade first on Solana, with NYSE and OKX-ICE venues planned.

TREE NEWS update: The Cardano Foundation has spun out its digital identity unit as a separate company called Veridian, which will use tokenized equity. Veridian plans to seek strategic partners and investors in 2027, while Cardano Foundation executives will retain board roles at the new entity.

TREE NEWS update: Securitize has launched tokenized Apple, Nvidia and Tesla shares on Solana, giving eligible US and EU investors access to share-backed tokens through its broker-dealer platform. Trading on NYSE and OKXICE venues remains planned, the company said.

TREE NEWS update: Securitize has rolled out fully backed tokens of 12 major U.S. stocks on Solana, including Apple and Nvidia. The product, Securitize Stocks, gives eligible investors exposure with dividends and voting rights, plus a path to direct share ownership. The tokens are backed 1:1 by the underlying equities.

TREE NEWS update: Securitize has launched tokenized US stocks on Solana, backed 1:1 by real shares, with dividends passed through and settlement in USDC. The initial lineup includes Apple, Nvidia and Strategy. Tokens are fully collateralized by the underlying equities rather than synthetic exposure.

TREE NEWS reports: Fidelity’s head of digital asset strategists said there is ‘no going back’ for institutions moving toward a tokenized onchain future, arguing tokenization offers structural advantages to financial institutions and helps asset managers reach new markets. The firm’s digital asset strategy chief framed tokenized onchain infrastructure as the direction institutions are already committed to.

TREE NEWS update: Chainlink has launched CCIP Vault Adapters, letting DeFi vaults accept user deposits directly from more than 80 blockchains without redeploying the vault on each chain. The product is live, with Aave, Lombard, United Stables, Veda and Venus among the first adopters. The vaults cover stablecoins, lending, yield strategies, digital credit and tokenized assets.

TREE NEWS update: OKX has completed a funding round at a $25 billion valuation, with Qube Research & Technologies, Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures participating, the exchange said at its OKX NOW conference on October 6. OKX also disclosed it has filed notice with ICE to launch a tokenized securities trading venue under the SEC’s innovation exemption, and unveiled OKX Money, a payment service live in more than 30 countries.

TREE NEWS reports: Binance and Hyperliquid RWA perpetual futures became crypto’s main volume driver in Q3 2026, with Binance RWA perps hitting $547.7 billion for the quarter — more than four times Q2 and 11.7% of its total perpetual volume, up from under 0.1% in Q1. Binance added 134 new listings in Q3, including 86 TradFi perpetuals and 37 spot stocks and ETFs, against just 11 crypto spot and perp products. On-chain RWA reached $34.18 billion as of Sept. 15, up 85.2% year to date.

TREE NEWS reports: The IMF said tokenized repo trades run about $300-350 billion a day and other tokenized assets about $65 billion, against roughly $13 trillion in daily US repo volume and $300 trillion in global capital markets. It said tokenization is growing fast but remains tiny and highly fragmented, and called for legal certainty, a clear regulatory framework and interoperability. The IMF warned that scale could amplify sell-offs, liquidity runs and contagion, urging technology-neutral rules and monitoring of leverage and liquidity risks.

TREE NEWS update: Standard Chartered plans to provide custody for cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and tokenized assets to institutional and eligible corporate clients in Singapore. The service covers digital asset safekeeping for professional investors in the city-state. No launch date or fee details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has added four equity-linked bStocks, including tokens tied to JPMorgan and Eli Lilly, to its margin collateral lineup. The tokens carry 50% collateral ratios in Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin, with a separate tiered schedule applying to Portfolio Margin Pro. The change lets traders post tokenized equity exposure against leveraged positions on the exchange.

TREE NEWS update: Tether, issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has signed a deal with Kazakhstan’s central bank to help it study a tenge-pegged token and the placement of real-world assets on a blockchain. The agreement covers research into a stablecoin tied to Kazakhstan’s national currency and tokenization of RWAs.