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The Tokenization Desk 16 stories this week · 82 total

The SEC's tokenized-stock test rewards plumbing, not wrappers

A five-year exemption opens AMM trading for real tokenized shares while the 30-day issuer notice and the synthetic exclusion decide which firms actually collect.
September 17

Tenka raises pre-seed to give private credit an exit other than redemption

Maven 11 leads an undisclosed round for infrastructure designed to let asset-backed exposures change hands before the loans beneath them repay.
September 17

Ondo's broker-dealer joins Fund/SERV, the fund industry's distribution pipe

The first tokenization participant on a network that predates the current debate buys distribution reach no chain replicates, with no fund, distributor, or launch date attached.
September 16

Theo's tokenized silver is a lease book in a wrapper

The $40 million beta launch moves commodity carry off dealer balance sheets and into a token, where counterparty credit is the hard part.
September 16

Aave's RWA hub is a governance test before it is a lending market

Aave Labs' plan to let institutions borrow in USA₮ against tokenized collateral on Avalanche rests on a DAO proposal that has not been posted and on collateral that has not arrived.
September 16

Arc is a distribution deal disguised as a blockchain

Circle's founding validators are the moat, and the 21-bank dollar stablecoin of 2027 is where the argument gets scored.
September 16

Kamino hires a distribution CEO to sell tokenized lending

A Manhattan headquarters and a finance bench answer the easy half of the business; the match between PRIME deposits and borrowers is the harder one.
September 15

Bitget Wallet shelves its own tokenized stocks beside Ondo's

The widest retail shelf for tokenized equities now belongs to a group that issues the product sitting on it.
September 15

Kraken turns tokenized equity into collateral and keeps 25% of the yield

The 2% APY on SPYx and QQQx comes from a leveraged credit strategy behind an exchange interface, and the disclosed loss-sharing reaches the depositor's principal.
September 14

Valinor's tokenized BDC fund bought its liquidity from the tape

A $5 million wrapper around listed business development companies, with a token contract that has moved nothing, puts the 1.25% fee on trial.
September 10

A national bank's stablecoin lands on Stellar, freeze switch included

U.S. Bank's live cross-border pilot in its own dollar token shows banks will use public rails as long as the issuer keeps the ability to stop a transfer.
September 10

Tenev's token defense: it's debt, not AMC stock

If the tokens are Robinhood Assets debt referencing AMC, issuer consent may be beside the point—but so are shareholder votes.
September 9

ARK asks SEC for a tokenized share class without asking it to bless the ledger

The venture interval fund's application seeks a ledger-recorded share class and leaves the distributed ledger itself out of the requested relief.
September 8

REC's tokenized bond draws an eight-times book in SEBI's sandbox

The state-owned lender's ₹5 billion placement found eager institutional buyers, but whether the token itself mattered remains the open question.
September 8

DBS and Citi complete weekend dollar transfer on Swift ledger

The Sept. 5 Singapore–New York payment is the ledger's second live use, stretching tokenized deposits past standard banking hours while final settlement stays on existing systems.
September 8

LSE to List Tokenized Versions of UK's 100 Largest Stocks

The London Stock Exchange's planned listing of Payward's xStocks would put the 100 largest London-listed companies on a 24/5 venue as loan notes, with the shares parked in a Jersey vehicle.
September 1

High-yield credit becomes onchain collateral

Securitize's HINC fund is now borrowable on Loopscale, pushing tokenized lending beyond Treasuries and into marks that can fall.
September 1

Stellar's $3 billion RWA stack outruns its DeFi collateral engine

A $2 million RWA-backed lending pool shows why tokenization's next fight is over collateral, not issuance.
August 28

CIMB settles tokenized sukuk with tokenized deposits

A Malaysian pilot pairs tokenized securities with tokenized deposits, testing the settlement model bank-owned rails are betting on.
August 27

Visa joins BLOOM, signs Shinhan to stablecoin rails

The card network is positioning itself as the settlement switchboard for regulated stablecoins in Singapore and Korea.
August 26

39 state banking groups formalize a bank-owned settlement rail

The alliance wants community and regional banks to own the tokenized settlement network they rely on; the ownership terms are still unpriced.
August 26

Revolut’s euro stablecoin is a distribution deal

Bridge holds the license and the reserves; Revolut's 75 million customers are the real product.
August 26

EDX Markets adopts Figure YLDS as collateral and treasury

The exchange's yield-bearing digital security turns idle margin into an earning asset and pressures zero-yield stablecoin collateral.
August 25

Bitwise puts Coinbase tokenized stocks into self-custodied portfolios

Automated Token Portfolios put the model in Glider's hands and the token in the investor's wallet, leaving Coinbase's ADGM-licensed issuer as the anchor.
August 25

Circle sets Sept. 16 target for Arc's public mainnet launch

Circle targets Sept. 16 to open Arc's production blockchain to any user; eleven founding institutions will still control block production. Half a billion test transactions measure capacity, not trust.
August 21

MANTRA halt freezes tokenized settlement as token slides

The outage on a chain carrying Securitize's validator seat shows settlement risk is still the weak point in the tokenization story.
August 21

HSBC and Standard Chartered complete first live tokenized-deposit transfer on Swift ledger

Swift's ledger matched and netted the banks' obligations; final settlement still ran on existing systems.
August 20

AMM-correlated-pairs debate turns on permission

The XTX counterpoint concedes the mechanism; who gets to provide liquidity decides whether tokenized equities matter.
August 19

Coinbase makes Abu Dhabi its tokenized-securities hub

The ADGM license lets Coinbase arrange deals and hold digital assets, with investors keeping tokenized shares in wallets instead of brokerage accounts.
August 19

Robinhood CEO Tenev pushes SEC to open US to tokenized stocks

A week after the SEC shelved its innovation exemption, Tenev makes a market-structure case for tokenized equities at home.
August 19

HSBC and Standard Chartered move first cross-bank tokenized deposit on Swift

A live transfer between HSBC and Standard Chartered shows how tokenized deposits can move across banks on Swift's blockchain.
August 19

Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin, Standard Chartered's HKDAP, enters beta

The HKMA-licensed stablecoin's beta pairs strict holder-identification rules with institutional distribution; tokenized settlement is the aim.
August 18

BIS's Agorá selects 41 institutions for tokenized payments test

A unified-ledger experiment backed by seven central banks moves from design to live testing with the private sector.
August 18

Securitize's tokenized assets reach a record $4.3B as revenue falls

The first public report since Securitize listed shows tokenized assets at a record even as tokenization fees shrink and the net loss widens.
August 18

Standard Chartered's HKDAP stablecoin enters beta on licensed exchanges

Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin moves into beta with institutions, testing an identity-first compliance model.
August 18

JPMorgan adds euro payments to JPM Coin

Siemens is the first client to move euros on the bank's tokenized rail, which still settles only inside JPMorgan.
August 18
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