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TREE NEWS update: Cboe has renewed its agreement with S&P, preserving exclusive rights to S&P 500 index options through 2051 while opening the door to pairing the flagship benchmark with blockchain infrastructure. The deal keeps Cboe’s exclusive licensing intact for nearly three more decades and sets up the potential for tokenized versions of the index options.

TREE NEWS update: Kakaopay Securities is partnering with Dinari and Ondo Finance to explore tokenizing Korean-listed equities and widening access for international investors. The three firms will examine how tokenized Korean stocks could be issued and distributed to investors outside the domestic market. No timeline, structure or regulatory details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Hong Kong priced about HK$20 billion equivalent of digital green bonds under its Sustainable Bond Programme, spanning Hong Kong dollars, renminbi, US dollars and euros. Alongside traditional settlement and tokenized central bank money, the HKD tranche’s primary issuance used tokenized deposits via EnsembleTX — making it among the world’s first digital bonds to introduce HKD tokenized deposits.

TREE NEWS update: Citi and Coinbase have rolled out a stablecoin payments integration designed to make stablecoin transactions invisible to end users. The tie-up between the US banking group and the listed crypto exchange covers payment rails for stablecoin settlement. Crypto majors rebounded as oil and yields fell, while Michael Saylor’s Strategy returned to buying Bitcoin.

TREE NEWS reports: US pre-market AI-linked stocks traded broadly higher, with ASML up 1.84%, Micron up 1.61%, Arm up 1.51%, KLA up 1.07% and Marvell up 1.07%.COM data. MSX.COM is a decentralized RWA trading platform that has listed hundreds of RWA tokens, including tokenized US equities and ETFs such as AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, META, MSFT, NFLX and NVDA.

TREE NEWS update: Ondo Finance has partnered with KakaoPay Securities to explore building a global gateway to Korean stocks, the companies said. The collaboration aims to give international investors access to Korean equities, extending Ondo’s tokenized real-world asset business into a new market. No financial terms or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Soneium, the Sony-backed blockchain, has partnered with Korean entertainment company DayOneDream to tokenize K-Pop revenue. The company behind BTOB and Lee Chae Yeon plans to offer eligible users tokenized exposure to revenue from concerts, streaming and music rights. Terms of the partnership were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: tZERO has brought a Goldman Sachs Treasury money market fund with $105 billion in assets onto Lynq, its institutional settlement network, letting qualified U.S. firms hold cash in the fund between trades. It is the first outside fund to be listed on Lynq, the network said.

TREE NEWS update: Bybit will accept Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money fund shares as off-exchange collateral, letting eligible clients borrow USDT or USDC against the Benji-issued fund shares. The shares remain in custody and continue to earn yield while pledged. The arrangement marks a further link between tokenized traditional funds and crypto trading venues.

TREE NEWS reports: Ran Neuner said social trading apps such as FOMO, where traders can see and follow each other’s trades, will replace exchanges like Binance. Speaking on Unchained, he pointed to tokenized stocks trading around the clock as a driver of that shift.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing partnership so Citi’s institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments without directly handling crypto, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi’s banking rails. The arrangement pairs Coinbase’s stablecoin payment capability with Citi’s banking infrastructure, letting Citi’s institutional customers settle in stablecoins through the bank.

TREE NEWS update: Goldman Sachs’ $100 billion Treasury fund FTIXX has launched on Lynq as the platform’s first external fund, giving institutional digital asset firms access to a traditional Treasury fund. Unlike BlackRock’s BUIDL and Franklin Templeton’s BENJI, FTIXX will not be tokenized; Lynq serves only as a new distribution channel for the existing fund. Lynq clients can park cash in FTIXX to earn yield between trades until the funds are deployed elsewhere.

TREE NEWS update: Bybit now accepts Franklin Templeton’s tokenized fund shares as collateral for trading. Eligible institutions can pledge Benji-issued fund shares for stablecoin credit lines while keeping the underlying assets in off-exchange custody. The arrangement lets institutions post tokenized money-market fund holdings against stablecoin borrowing rather than moving assets onto the exchange.

TREE NEWS reports: WisdomTree’s Treasury money fund trailed its T-bill benchmark by 15 basis points over a year, Dune data shows. Issuer disclosures indicate that fund expenses and liquidity terms weigh on returns for tokenized money market products.

TREE NEWS update: AMC CEO Adam Aron publicly called out Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher on X, saying the broker would be “hypocritical” if it did not apply overseas the same principles it endorsed for SEC-regulated US stock tokenization. Aron said tokenized shares should carry voting rights and companies should be able to opt out, and urged Robinhood not to contradict the SEC’s position.

TREE NEWS update: Ondo Perps has added spot trading for 12 tokenized stocks and ETFs, letting traders use purchased tokens as collateral for short perpetual positions. The venue is waiving spot trading fees for the first 30 days.

TREE NEWS update: Chainlink has launched CCIP 2.0, letting institutions run or hire their own verifiers that must sign off on each cross-chain token transfer alongside Chainlink’s 16-operator committee. The upgrade also allows KYC and sanctions screening to be built into the transfer flow, giving institutions additional control over tokenized asset movements.

TREE NEWS update: Bybit clients can now pledge Franklin Templeton’s Benji-issued money market fund shares as collateral for USDT or USDC credit lines, with the shares remaining in custody and continuing to pay yield. Franklin Templeton ran the same structure with Binance in February.