Flash News

TREE NEWS update: Circle has launched the Arc mainnet, a Layer 1 that charges gas in USDC and runs proof-of-authority across a permissioned set of 11 institutions plus Circle, including BlackRock, DTCC and Visa as block producers. More than 100 applications are live at launch, with Aave, Morpho and Uniswap anchoring DeFi. Circle minted 10 billion ARC tokens this week without committing to a public launch.

TREE NEWS update: Circle has launched the Arc mainnet, with BlackRock and Visa among its validators, and confirmed it completed the genesis mint of 10 billion ARC tokens this week. A public launch of the ARC token remains undecided.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain has reached $3.15 billion in bridge TVL and $931.3 million in DeFi TVL, ranking 10th on both metrics and 13th by stablecoin market cap at $1.06 billion, 11 weeks after launch. Tokenized equities on the chain total $81 million, just 0.03% of Robinhood’s equity book assets and 3.2% of the $2.55 billion global tokenized stock market. Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi said the chain’s higher gas limit and lower fees, which cut chain revenue while DEX volumes held, reflect a long-term RWA strategy.

TREE NEWS update: Deutsche Bank will begin offering crypto custody and transfer services to institutional and corporate clients later this year after receiving regulatory approval, covering bitcoin, ether and selected stablecoins. The bank said it plans to broaden the range of supported assets over time, potentially adding tokenized financial instruments.

TREE NEWS reports: Tokenized stocks traded on decentralized exchanges recorded about $1 billion in cumulative volume over the past 30 days. Raydium accounted for roughly $805.2 million, or 80.5% of the market, while Byreal ranked second with about $107.9 million and Orca followed at around $72.5 million. On-chain trading activity in tokenized equities has risen notably as more stock assets and liquidity move on-chain.

TREE NEWS update: Bitget Wallet has added 1,700 tokenized stocks issued by Reality, the self-custodial wallet’s own in-house tokenized-equity issuer. The listing gives Bitget Wallet three tokenized-equity providers in total, with Reality being the newest addition. The wallet did not disclose the value or timing of the integration.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin.com has rolled out tokenized US stocks and ETFs to eligible US users through tokenization infrastructure firm Dinari, giving direct access via Bitcoin.com Wallet. Dinari’s dShares cover 724 assets, including all S&P 500 constituents, with each dShare tied to the corresponding US security held by a licensed custodian. Bitcoin.com is the first partner to deploy Dinari’s Embedded Trading App, letting users browse, trade and manage portfolios without leaving the product.

TREE NEWS reports: Standard Chartered forecasts Arbitrum’s ARB token could outperform both Bitcoin and Ether through 2030, pointing to Robinhood Chain as an early sign that tokenization could transform the network’s economics. The bank expects that shift to drive ARB sharply higher by the end of the decade.

TREE NEWS reports: Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick set a $10 end-of-decade price target for Arbitrum, calling it “the blockchain for TradFi” — roughly 70 times its current price. The forecast rests on the 10% cut Arbitrum takes from chains built on its stack, a line created by Robinhood Chain in July and since down 93%.

TREE NEWS update: Bitget Wallet has added Reality’s tokenized U.S. stocks, known as rTokens, alongside its existing Ondo and xStocks offerings. The self-custodial wallet will list rTokens on Arbitrum and Morph from Sept. 15. Reality operates as part of the Bitget ecosystem.

TREE NEWS reports: Standard Chartered projects Arbitrum’s ARB token will reach $10 by end-2030, a roughly 70-fold increase from current levels. The bank’s forecast is tied to growth in tokenization and traditional finance firms moving onchain. The call is a long-horizon price target rather than a near-term view.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitget’s cumulative TradFi contract trading volume has surpassed $530 billion, with a single-day peak of $7.39 billion. The platform currently supports 309 stock contract underlyings. The figures cover trading in tokenized traditional-finance contracts tied to equity products.

TREE NEWS update: Abu Dhabi First Bank and Citi completed a dollar transaction over SWIFT’s shared blockchain ledger on Sept. 2, and DBS, OCBC and UOB followed on Sept. 10 with Singapore’s first interbank tokenized-deposit transactions in Singapore dollars. The trades connect existing SWIFT messaging, bank-issued tokenized deposits and a shared ledger, letting banks keep managing deposits and compliance while the ledger synchronizes payment commitments. SWIFT announced the ledger in September 2025 and moved it into initial use in July 2026.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Jiangsu Securities Regulatory Bureau issued a risk alert urging investors to beware of illegal financial activities conducted under the banner of RWA. The regulator said some institutions and individuals hype the RWA concept, luring the public with claims of “real-asset backing, guaranteed high returns and low-risk steady gains,” and stated that any RWA-named fundraising conducted within China is illegal financial activity.

TREE NEWS update: Bitget released figures tied to its 8th anniversary and UEX strategy: rToken cumulative trades reached 1.2 million and AUM topped $200 million as of August 2026, while Bitget TradFi futures logged over 250 million cumulative trades that month, with monthly volume above $100 billion for two straight months. Head of Chinese-language business Xie Jiajun also detailed the “Archimedes Plan,” a $300 million institutional support program — $100 million for emerging market-neutral quant firms and $200 million in interest-free funding for established institutions — targeting over 50 projects in six months.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will distribute cash dividends on Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) and Salesforce (CRM) to holders of its bStocks tokens TSMB and CRMB, net of applicable withholding taxes, fees, costs and other deductions, with proceeds reinvested into additional whole or fractional units of the same underlying securities. Holders of TSMB at the 08:00 (UTC+8) snapshot on Sept 16, 2026, and of CRMB at the 08:00 (UTC+8) snapshot on Sept 17, 2026, are eligible.

TREE NEWS reports: Securitize president Brett Redfearn said the SEC’s forthcoming stock-token exemption will likely give public companies a window to object before third parties tokenize their shares. Redfearn, who previously ran the SEC’s trading and markets division, expects companies to be able to opt out of having their equity tokenized by outside issuers.

TREE NEWS update: Kraken introduced xStocks vaults, letting investors earn yield on tokenized versions of Nvidia and major US stock market ETFs by lending the assets in DeFi markets. The product extends Kraken’s tokenized-equity offering into DeFi yield strategies.

TREE NEWS update: Robinhood crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said on Monday that in-kind redemption and voting rights are on the roadmap for Robinhood Stock Tokens. The base prospectus currently states that token holders are not entitled to physical delivery of the underlying shares and hold no voting rights. Kerbrat did not give a timeline for when the features would go live.