The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report confirms real demand for tokenized U.S. equities but warns of 1.5x volatility, weak liquidity, and fragmented infrastructure. With $2.3 billion in tokenized stocks out...
Fibank partners with Bitpanda Enterprise to offer crypto investment services to over one million customers via its My Fibank platform. The deal highlights the growing convergence of traditional banking and...
Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman says tokenization could unlock tens of billions in capital and improve collateral liquidity, with AI enabling 24/7 markets. She stresses the need for liquid assets and...
Tokenized commodities reached $5.55 billion in market cap by late March 2026, but gold still drives nearly 90% of growth. Paxos Labs and Theo are pushing lending and silver-yield products,...
Major fintech companies are converging on stablecoins, DeFi infrastructure, and compliance middleware as the backend for payments, cross-border settlement, and custody. The winners will combine distribution, regulatory trust, or vertical...
A Franklin Templeton executive says institutional investors are rejecting meme coins in favor of a 'tokenization supercycle,' with tokenized money market funds becoming standard. The convergence of AI and capital...
OKXICE, the OKX–ICE joint venture, has applied to US regulators to launch 24/7 tokenized stock trading. Co-chairman Andrew Cuomo calls it a transformative game-changer that could draw billions into the...
HSBC and Ant Digital Technologies have demonstrated AI agents using tokenized bank deposits to pay for digital services, settling in real time on a layer-2 testnet. The closed trial focused...
Base founder Jesse Pollak says tokenized stocks and non-USD stablecoins will lead a 'tokenization supercycle.' Coinbase launched tokenized equities on Base about six weeks ago and now lists roughly 50...
MEXC CEO Vugar Usi Zade and Payward Co-CEO Arjun Sethi used a TOKEN2049 Singapore panel to argue that crypto and traditional finance are converging around market access, retail demand, and...
Crédit Agricole Assurances has invested €100 million in tokenized shares of an Amundi euro money market fund, with CACEIS serving as tokenization and transfer agent. The deal marks one of...
Securitize has launched a tokenized US equity service covering Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, Google, Meta, Amazon and Circle, using a 1:1 backing model. The move pushes tokenized stocks closer to...
NUVA, the RWA platform from Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, has launched the ERC-20 HOME token, letting eligible non-US investors access tokenized Figu-backed assets from just 1 USDC. The ultra-low...
HTX Ventures has released a report arguing that CeFi, DeFi and TradFi are converging into a single institutional-grade hybrid architecture built around custody, collateral, execution, yield and risk management. The...
Circle is embedding USDC and EURC into SAP Pay and SAP Cloud ERP through a partnership with SAP-affiliated Tereina, letting corporate treasuries route bank and on-chain payments in one workflow....
Wells Fargo is reportedly in talks with Payward, Kraken's parent, to become a crypto trading liquidity provider. The potential deal would deepen ties between traditional banks and crypto exchanges, following...
The 2026 CSBS community bank survey reveals that up to 20% of US community banks may offer tokenized deposits or stablecoins within a year. While interest is growing, regulatory uncertainty...
After a decade of open financial experimentation, traditional finance is selectively adopting crypto's most practical innovations—tokenized RWAs, stablecoins, and programmable compliance—while discarding speculative excess. The result is a gradual convergence...
Bitget and Block Scholes report that using tokenized stocks as collateral in a unified cross-asset account reduces margin requirements by 48.5%, but stress tests reveal higher correlation risks. The study...
HashKey RWA CEO Anna Liu told the Korea STO Summit 2026 that with Korea's token securities law set to fully take effect in February 2027, the industry's next challenge is...
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