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TREE NEWS update: Binance will add five new stocks—BRUN, GRML, OCTV, USDE and WSE—to its BinanceStocks offering on September 28, 2026 at 13:30 UTC. The listing expands the exchange’s tokenized-equity trading lineup with the five tickers.

TREE NEWS update: Xiao Feng, chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and HashKey Group, said in a Sept. 23 keynote at the 12th Blockchain Global Summit in Shanghai that asset tokenization and 24/7 trading will reshape global financial markets. He cited Nasdaq’s plan to launch 23-hour, 5-day trading on Dec. 6 and a CFTC chairman’s remarks that tokenization, on-chain finance, round-the-clock trading and stablecoins will change US finance more in ten years than in the past fifty.

TREE NEWS reports: Quant’s QNT token traded at 265 USDT, up 46.64% in 24 hours and 297.3% over seven days, after peaking at 373 USDT. The rally followed Quant’s September 24 announcement that The Clearing House selected it to supply interoperability, orchestration and transaction management technology for its On-Chain Money Initiative, a payment network for tokenized deposit clearing and settlement due to open to participating institutions in the first half of 2027.

TREE NEWS update: Fundstrat’s Tom Lee said in a post on X that tokenization and AI agents could be the two main drivers of the next crypto market cycle. He pointed to BlackRock’s expectation that more assets will be tokenized, financial settlement infrastructure increasingly being built on crypto networks, and fintechs such as Revolut already building on Ethereum. Lee framed AI as creating the digital economy and crypto as supplying its currency and blockchain infrastructure.

TREE NEWS reports: Tokenized stocks generated $20.9 billion in DEX trading volume over the past 30 days. Uniswap V4 held the largest share at 40.7%, followed by Uniswap V3 at 19.4%, giving the two versions a combined 60.1% share worth roughly $12.6 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Aave founder and CEO Stani said on X that the protocol’s core measure of its addressable market is “addressable collateral” — the wider the pool of assets usable as collateral, the larger the potential lending market. Aave began with crypto lending, expanded into securities via Coinbase Tokenized Stocks and Horizon RWA, and will extend to solar, batteries, GPUs, robotics and space infrastructure, a shift he expects to run to 2050.

TREE NEWS reports: Kraken parent company Payward has invested billions of dollars over the past two years to expand into futures and derivatives, tokenized stocks and banking, aiming to merge trading, payments, asset management and institutional services into a single financial infrastructure. Co-CEO Arjun Sethi said Payward is not a holding company but “one platform, one balance sheet, one regulatory system,” with a single ledger moving funds and assets across businesses.

TREE NEWS update: Long.xyz launched LONG 500, an index it describes as the S&P 500 of tokenized stocks, currently covering more than 70 tokenized equities. Under the new structure, 5% of stock-token fees from each new trading pair will flow into an AI community treasury and another 5% will fund buybacks and burns of the paired token, which anyone can trigger around the clock. Liquidity-pool auto-compounding continues and creator fees stay unchanged.

TREE NEWS update: Eligible U.S. investors can now buy into Cathie Wood’s ARK Venture Fund — which holds SpaceX, OpenAI and Kalshi — as an Ethereum token using USDC, through Securitize. Cash-outs still run through the fund’s quarterly repurchase offers. The move gives crypto-native investors tokenized exposure to private venture holdings.

TREE NEWS update: Barclays and HSBC took part in a UK Finance project that converted customer deposits into digital tokens to complete two mortgage refinancings, with the funds locked until each deal closed. The initiative expects to test digital-asset settlement next. The banks issued tokenized deposits as part of the pilot.

TREE NEWS reports: Spot DEX trading volume in tokenized stocks on Base reached about $1.3 billion over the past 30 days, up 153.8% from the prior 30-day period. Coinbase-issued tokenized equities accounted for roughly $1.2 billion of that total, the vast majority, while st0x-related assets traded about $90 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Stablecoins and tokenized assets are driving banks, exchanges and crypto companies into overlapping markets spanning payments, stocks and ETFs. The convergence puts traditional Wall Street institutions and crypto-native firms in direct competition for the same turf, with tokenization of real-world assets at the center of the collision.

TREE NEWS update: Ethena has begun backing its roughly $4.9 billion synthetic dollar USDe with tokenized stocks on Binance, holding the exchange’s bStocks as spot collateral while hedging with short positions in Binance equity perpetual futures. The setup marks Ethena’s first equity basis venue for the stablecoin-style asset.

TREE NEWS update: Aave has added seven tokenized stock tokens, including Coinbase-linked equities, as collateral for USDC loans in a dedicated V4 market on Base, with a 21 million USDC borrowing cap. Access is limited to eligible non-US investors. The market lets borrowers draw stablecoin liquidity against tokenized equity positions.

TREE NEWS update: Former New York Governor and OKX board member Andrew Cuomo said tokenization is moving faster than US regulation and legislation, and that regulatory clarity will shape where investment, talent and financial infrastructure go. He pointed to the SEC’s September 17 “innovation exemption,” which lets qualifying on-chain trading venues handle tokenized US equities under certain conditions, as a regulatory testing framework for traditional capital markets moving on-chain.

TREE NEWS update: Aave V4 launched an Equities Hub on Base, allowing eligible non-US users to borrow USDC against seven tokenized US equities issued by Coinbase: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. It marks the first time tokenized stocks can be used as collateral in an Aave lending market rather than only held or traded. The market uses Aave’s Hub and Spoke architecture, pooling the seven equities into one USDC liquidity pool with separate risk parameters per stock, and Chainlink provides on-chain price feeds.

TREE NEWS update: Aave V4 has added tokenized stocks including Apple, Nvidia and Tesla as collateral for USDC loans, available to non-U.S. users. Seven tokenized equities in total are accepted on the Base deployment. The move lets borrowers draw stablecoin liquidity against tokenized equity positions rather than crypto assets alone.

TREE NEWS update: Jumper announced plans to spin off from LI.FI as an independent company and hold its first JUMP token sale through Legion, marking its debut fundraising. Proceeds will go to product development, user acquisition and market expansion, with the JUMP token issued separately after the raise and no concurrent equity financing. The platform will expand from cross-chain aggregation into an on-chain finance super app covering spot trading, cross-chain, perpetuals, tokenized stocks and other RWA and yield products.