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TREE NEWS update: Galaxy has added $100 million of Sky’s sUSDS to its treasury and approved the tokenized savings product as collateral for its institutional lending business. Clients can keep earning Sky’s 3.6% savings rate while pledging sUSDS to Galaxy, whose institutional lending arm runs a $1.4 billion average loan book.

TREE NEWS update: Blockchain.com has reached an agreement to connect to the New York Stock Exchange’s planned digital venue, allowing 24/7 tokenized stock trading. The deal also covers two-way distribution of stock and crypto market data between the two platforms. No financial terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: ESMA will prioritize EU-wide supervision of AI and tokenization in 2027, with national regulators mapping client-facing uses of the technologies, checking a subset of firms and developing common oversight approaches. The plan targets coordination across the bloc’s supervisory authorities.

TREE NEWS update: The SEC has opened a five-year path for tokenized stocks, but only some products and venues fit the model. The framework leaves open which platforms will be able to offer the products, with Uniswap, Robinhood, Coinbase and Kraken among the venues in the running. No specific approvals or launch dates were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: MoonPay has agreed to acquire North Capital in an all-stock deal valued at more than $60 million, adding US broker-dealer, trading and investment infrastructure as the company expands into tokenized securities. The acquisition brings North Capital’s regulated US brokerage and trading capabilities into MoonPay’s business.

TREE NEWS update: CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said tokenization could reshape financial markets, as the CFTC and SEC press ahead with onchain initiatives despite the CLARITY Act’s setback. The remarks come as the SEC opens the door to onchain stocks.

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.

TREE NEWS update: Matrixdock, the RWA tokenization platform under BIT (formerly Matrixport), has launched its tokenized gold XAUm on Arc, the Layer-1 blockchain built by Circle, making it the first tokenized gold asset on the network. Eligible XAUm redemptions can receive USDC same-day, and XAUm/USDC liquidity is now available via Uniswap. Each XAUm is backed by one troy ounce of 99.99% physical gold held in allocated form at Brink’s and Malca-Amit vaults in Hong Kong and Singapore.

TREE NEWS update: Stablecoin payment network Atum closed a $13.5 million seed round led by Variant, with PayPal Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Road Capital, Mirana Ventures, First Commit and Credibly Neutral participating. Atum issues no stablecoin, runs no blockchain and holds no funds; it provides a cross-stablecoin, cross-chain coordination layer for global money movement, handling authorization, routing and confirmation, and supports AI agent payments via protocols including x402 and MPP. Founder and CEO Pete Cooling previously led Visa’s crypto product team.

TREE NEWS reports: BlackRock says the potential for artificial intelligence to drive crypto demand remains underappreciated, with AI agents seen boosting demand for stablecoins and programmable payment rails. The asset manager also points to tokenized computing capacity as another opportunity for digital assets.

TREE NEWS update: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will cooperate with industry participants to advance the development of the digital bond market, the regulator said. The initiative covers work with market practitioners on pushing forward the city’s digital bond ecosystem. No timeline, participating institutions or specific measures were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said the regulator must prepare for large-scale tokenization and adapt existing market rules to blockchain and AI, warning that the next decade could bring more change than the past several combined. The CFTC will seek more ways to encourage market participants, exchanges and clearinghouses to responsibly adopt stablecoins. It issued guidance and sought public comment on 24/7 energy derivatives trading over the past year, and in February added a national trust bank-issued stablecoin as eligible collateral.

TREE NEWS update: CFTC Chairman Selig said markets must prepare for “mass tokenization,” with the Trump administration readying an overhaul of financial markets as tokenization and 24/7 trading move into the spotlight. Selig’s remarks position tokenized assets and round-the-clock trading as central to the coming regulatory and market shift.

TREE NEWS update: Arch Lending’s Himanshu Sahay said the lender plans to expand into tokenized equities as onchain stocks gain traction as collateral. Speaking on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast, Sahay outlined the move without giving a timeline or naming specific assets. The lender currently operates in crypto lending markets.

TREE NEWS update: Superlogic Technologies’ travel and rewards platform Bookit has acquired Entravel Group’s white-label crypto travel business and on-chain tokenized rewards infrastructure project Spree.Finance. The Entravel deal adds 27 white-label crypto partners, including Kraken, MetaMask and EtherFi, giving them in-app access to over 2 million travel, retail and VIP experience merchants. As part of the Spree acquisition, Animoca Brands becomes a strategic investor and shareholder in Superlogic, with COO Minh Do joining its advisory board.

TREE NEWS reports: Canada’s six largest banks are exploring tokenized Canadian dollar deposits for interbank payments, weeks after regulators clarified how such instruments should be treated. The institutions are examining the use of tokenized deposits, a form of digital money issued by commercial banks, as a settlement method between them.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR began offering Ondo Finance’s tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds on Tuesday, allowing users to buy them with crypto held across more than 30 networks. The two companies said the trades are not broadcast publicly, providing confidential execution. The tokens are not available to U.S. persons or in Canada.

TREE NEWS update: Kamui Finance announced the launch of its first three real-world asset vaults onchain, alongside the operational infrastructure supporting them. The vaults are integrated with DigiFT, Hastra Prime and Midas and offer professional and sophisticated investors different levels of exposure to tokenized real-world assets.

TREE NEWS update: The European Central Bank will put its own money into tokenized public-sector securities, settling the trades through its new Pontes distributed-ledger platform. The central bank said the purchases are intended to give it firsthand experience of DLT markets. No size or start date for the program was given.