Tokenization

Tokenization

Finance

Someone was trying to sell Ondo Finance after founder Nathan Allman's death

The company has vehemently denied that it was shopping for buyers. Allman’s estate declined to comment.

Nathan Allman sits on a panel at Consensus 2025

Finance

Bullish, Alpaca, Apex Fintech and DriveWealth form coalition to push issuer-backed tokenized stocks

The group aims to link onchain shares to official shareholder records following the U.S. SEC's innovation exemption for tokenized stock trading.

Crypto platform Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (CoinDesk/Nik De)

Policy

U.S. commodities firms can invest in tokenized assets, use blockchain records: CFTC

The U.S derivatives regulator is grinding away at further guidance that welcomes tokenization and blockchain recordkeeping as regular industry elements.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Cathie Wood's ARK teams with Securitize to tokenize venture fund with OpenAI, Anthropic stakes

The ARK Venture Fund is bringing exposure to sought-after private tech companies onchain through Securitize, first on Ethereum then potentially expanding to other chains.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Finance

Solana Foundation hires Binance, Polygon veterans as it ramps up tokenized finance push

Rachel Conlan and Jamal Raees join as Solana aims to court institutions moving payments and assets onchain.

Rachel Conlan is joining as strategy chief, while Jamal Raees will serve as general manager of payments (Solana Foundation)

Finance

Crypto investment firm RockawayX is betting $150 million on yield becoming next big use case

The $2 billion digital-asset investment firm rolls out an initiative to back, build and provide liquidity to projects bringing real-world yields into DeFi.

RockawayX CEO Viktor Fischer (RockawayX)

Policy

EU's financial regulator to make AI and tokenization a supervisory priority in 2027

European regulators will map how financial firms use the technologies in client-facing products and begin checks on the most affected businesses.

ESMA offices. (ESMA/Media)

Finance

MoonPay to acquire SEC-registered North Capital in $60 million all-stock deal

The acquisition will support MoonPay’s aim of supporting mass adoption of tokenized real-world assets, CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said.

Business deal, contract (Edar/Pixabay)

Markets

Why this investment bank expects little demand for tokenized stocks despite SEC’s new trading rules

TD Securities expects limited demand for tokenized stocks despite new SEC rules opening a path for trading outside traditional markets.

(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Policy

ECB plans to buy tokenized bonds with its own funds

The European Central Bank rolled out a new system to link its payment system to blockchain-based financial markets.

EU central bank (Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash)