Tagged: rwas

October 18, 2026 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korean brokerage Meritz Securities has entered a strategic memorandum of understanding with the Canton Foundation, marking a significant step toward exploring the tokenization of domestic financial assets and their potential integration into worldwide institutional markets. The agreement, formalized earlier this month at Meritz’s headquarters… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 2:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded its institutional prime brokerage offering by enabling clients to trade real-world asset (RWA) perpetual swaps that track traditional financial instruments. Announced on October 15, 2026, the initiative through Ripple Prime gives professional traders continuous access to more than one hundred reference markets… Read More

October 14, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain finance continues to draw capital at a steady clip, and the latest weekly figures from Token Terminal illustrate a clear split in where that money is landing. Real-world assets (RWAs)—tokenized versions of funds, U.S. Treasury bills, credit products, equities, and commodities—showed concentrated growth on… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) plans to support tokenized equities on its alternative trading system (ATS), Trajectory Cross, in the first quarter of 2027. Amy Oldenburg, the firm’s head of digital asset strategy, shared this updated timeline in an interview at Token2049 in Singapore. This marks… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

OKX released a report, in partnership with Token Terminal, stating that RWAs [real-world assets] futures have surpassed crypto futures in trading volume. In brief, onchain perpetual futures markets for traditional assets have become as busy as onchain betting markets for crypto. According to the write-up,… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam is reportedly building a supervised market for tokenized real-world assets, treating blockchain not as a speculative venue but as a new channel for raising capital against tangible economic activity. The core legal instrument is Government Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP, signed on 9 September 2025. It launched… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has completed the issuance of $200 million in three-year floating-rate digitally native notes, becoming the Global Systemically Important Bank and a UK-based issuer that has now placed such instruments on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure. The notes, created natively on distributed… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The tokenized equities sector continues to expand as one of the more active areas within real-world assets, with platforms such as Ondo Finance, Binance’s bStocks, and xStocks accounting for the majority of current trading and investment activity. Recent data show the category’s share of the… Read More

August 10, 2026 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The tokenized real-world assets (RWA) ecosystem is rapidly approaching the $40 billion threshold. Recent figures from the industry tracker place the total distributed on-chain value of these assets at just over $38 billion, leaving only a relatively small gap before the next major milestone is… Read More

August 6, 2026 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Solana blockchain has reached a significant milestone in the tokenization of traditional financial instruments. Its real-world asset (RWA) sector has expanded to a total value of $3.73 billion, establishing a fresh all-time high for the network.This growth reflects increasing participation from institutional players who… Read More

August 4, 2026 @ 9:24 pm By Stephanie Vaughan  |  

Everyone in DeFi is talking about the “Earn” Wars. Robinhood, Coinbase, Revolut, and Kraken are competing for retail balances. Protocols like Aave, Morpho, and Ethena are competing to be the borrowing strategy. Vault providers are competing to package it, and strategists like Steakhouse, Gauntlet, Sentora,… Read More

August 1, 2026 @ 6:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The xStocks platform has announced that it has exceeded $600 million in assets under management. This figure encompasses tokenized shares, exchange-traded funds, and initial public offering-related instruments. The achievement highlights accelerating interest in bringing conventional equity exposure onto blockchain networks. Over the preceding twelve months,… Read More

July 28, 2026 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood’s (NASDAQ: HOOD) blockchain has recorded a sharp rise in real-world asset activity, with the value of tokenized equities and related holdings climbing rapidly in recent weeks. Data from analytics platforms shows the market capitalization of RWAs on the network has grown approximately fivefold over… Read More

July 21, 2026 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands Corporation Limited has released its annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, highlighting a period of strategic repositioning during one of the most difficult phases for the digital asset sector. The company, known for its involvement in blockchain, gaming, and… Read More

July 16, 2026 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Ondo Finance, a firm focused on tokenizing RWAs, has formed a partnership with SBI Group to tokenize assets in Japan. SBI Group is one of Japan’s largest financial services conglomerates, operating in banking, investing, asset management, and, more recently, digital assets. In a post on… Read More

July 8, 2026 @ 1:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

While there are various estimates in regard to how large the tokenization market of real world assets (RWAs) is growing it appears that June was a big month for the technology. Digital assets, or tokenized RWAs, represent the future of securities and more as issuance… Read More

July 4, 2026 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Interest in tokenized equities, commodities, pre-IPO shares, and platforms enabling continuous trading is accelerating sharply. According to a recent update shared by David Shuttleworth, Ecosystem Lead at Anchorage Digital, this momentum is driving unprecedented activity in perpetual futures tied to real-world assets (RWAs). Perpetual contracts… Read More

June 21, 2026 @ 6:45 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit is offering eligible users access to tokenized bond funds managed by PIMCO and China Merchants Bank International (CMBI), the latest sign of how digital asset platforms are using blockchain infrastructure to bring traditional fixed-income investments to crypto-native investors. The launch comes as… Read More

June 8, 2026 @ 12:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plume—an onchain platform that is focused on in vault management for institutional assets—and ether.fi, a Ethereum-based liquid restaking protocol and non-custodial neobank, have joined forces. Their collaboration introduces a new yield-bearing vault focused on real-world assets (RWAs), designed to deliver institutional-level returns to a broader… Read More

June 5, 2026 @ 5:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH), which decisively remains the leading smart contract platform for building and deploying decentralized applications or dApps, continues to solidify its position as the go-to platform for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, outpacing competitors in market share and driving significant growth in the sector. According… Read More