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TREE NEWS update: Ondo Finance launched a private-markets platform offering tokenized notes, with the first product tied to a pre-IPO artificial intelligence company. The move extends the RWA issuer’s onchain offerings into private-company exposure, a segment previously accessible mainly to institutional and accredited investors. No deal size, pricing or launch date was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Ondo has opened access to private markets through tokenized notes that give eligible investors exposure to private companies, with the first note tied to an unnamed pre-IPO AI company. The offering is limited to eligible investors and marks the platform’s entry into tokenized pre-IPO exposure.

TREE NEWS update: The Solana Foundation has launched an open-source delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement program aimed at financial institutions, designed to complete asset transfers and payments in seconds. The offering targets institutional settlement by pairing asset delivery with payment in a single, near-instant transaction on Solana.

TREE NEWS update: Ondo has introduced private-market notes that give holders exposure without shareholder rights, ahead of its first AI offering. Secondary-market prices for the notes can diverge sharply from the eventual payout, which is tied to a liquidity event.

TREE NEWS update: Ondo Finance launched Ondo Private Markets, a platform that brings the economic returns of leading private companies on-chain through tokenized notes. Each token’s payout is tied to the per-share value of the underlying company’s common stock in a qualifying liquidity event such as an IPO or other exit. The tokens are freely transferable and can be composable with on-chain DeFi.

TREE NEWS update: OKX-ICE plans to offer tokenized stock trading using a Uniswap v4 hook, restricting trading and liquidity provision to approved wallets on X Layer. The venue will not currently support aggregators.

TREE NEWS update: OKXICE LLC, a joint venture between crypto exchange operator OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday to launch a tokenized stock trading platform. The venture plans to seek approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 listed companies in its first batch, making OKX one of the first major crypto exchanges to use new US rules permitting digital versions of listed-company shares to trade on crypto platforms.

TREE NEWS update: OKXICE has told the SEC it will run tokenized equity trading for 63 stocks through permissioned Uniswap v4 pools on X Layer. Cerebras has already filed an objection to being included in the tokenized equity list.

TREE NEWS reports: Token Terminal data shows $53.4 million in tokenized ETFs have been deposited into DeFi. Assets tracking STRC account for $35.3 million and those tracking FWDI for $25.8 million. That represents about 7% of the roughly $3.7 billion tokenized equity market now deployed into DeFi.

TREE NEWS update: Plume has opened a tokenized vault, nBND, backed by shares of an actively managed Fidelity bond ETF rather than short-dated Treasuries. The product pushes onchain fixed income into credit and duration exposure. The vault holds ETF shares directly as its underlying asset.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said on X that ICE Markets’ tokenized securities (TSV) project with OKX will launch as a Uniswap v4 Hook. Adams called the v4 Hook a suitable market structure for tokenized securities, adding that it will bring new assets and users to the Uniswap protocol.

TREE NEWS update: The OKX-ICE joint venture has notified the SEC that it intends to launch a tokenized securities trading venue under the regulator’s innovation exemption. The venture pairs crypto exchange OKX with Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, and would trade tokenized US equities. No launch date or further regulatory timeline was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: OKX founder and CEO Star said in an X post that OKXICE, the joint venture between OKX and ICE, plans to deploy the DEX contracts for its tokenized stock trading platform (TSV) on X Layer. The confirmation names X Layer as the intended deployment chain for the venture’s tokenized equities DEX.

TREE NEWS update: OKX has filed an application with the SEC to launch a tokenized stock trading platform in the United States, targeting the five-year Innovation Exemption the regulator introduced on September 17, 2026. The application had not appeared in SEC public records as of early October. OKX already offers more than 70 tokenized US stocks and ETFs offshore under Regulation S, but those synthetic products lack dividends and voting rights, which the exemption requires.

TREE NEWS update: OKX and the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange have filed to launch a platform offering tokenized shares in more than 60 US-listed companies. The stock trading platform would operate under the SEC’s recently introduced innovation exemption.

TREE NEWS update: UBS is recruiting two digital-asset executives in New York. An IB Digital Assets Product Manager will drive the investment bank’s digital-asset strategy across tokenization, stablecoins, settlement infrastructure, custody and DLT-based business models, with a base salary of $225,000 to $242,500. A Digital Assets Distribution Manager will build cross-divisional distribution for digital-asset products bank-wide, focused on turning tokenized products into scalable, commercially viable offerings.

TREE NEWS reports: South Korea has tokenized about 640 billion won ($450 million) in real-world assets, mostly music royalties and art, the Bank of Korea said. The country had 11.13 million trading-eligible accounts at end-2025, over 20% of the population, with daily trading volume of 5.4 trillion won ($3.8 billion) in H2 2025. Shinhan Asset Management is running a proof of concept for on-chain won-denominated funds, and the Bank of Korea has completed phase one of Project Hangang.

TREE NEWS update: Gate will unlock the third batch of SpaceX (SPCX) pre-IPO shares on October 3 at 20:00 UTC+8, releasing 23,730 SPCX, or 14% of the target company’s original allocation. With 27% already unlocked, 73% of the original allocation remains, so this batch equals 19.18% of users’ actual SPCX holdings at snapshot, with shares distributed 1:1 to Gate stock accounts.

TREE NEWS update: SEC Chairman Atkins said the custody provisions of the Investment Advisers Act and Investment Company Act predate the internet, and that custody capability often lags months behind when new assets launch, with a proposed SEC custody rule aimed at closing that gap. He outlined the agency’s crypto agenda, including ending regulation-by-enforcement, arrangements for tokenized securities, a proposed Regulation Crypto Assets issuance framework and an “innovation exemption,” and said more rule proposals are on the way.