Tokenization

The world’s largest asset manager led a $47 million funding round by a blockchain-focused firm it has worked with before

The tokenization of real-world assets is set to continue as a “defining trend” for institutional crypto in 2024, Anchorage Digital CEO says

Plus, Puffer joins the restaking round club and a Bitcoin Runes DEX announces seed funding

Circle’s new smart contract to allow holders of BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund to redeem shares for its stablecoin

Elsewhere, Bitfarms is hiring a new CEO and Tether is staffing an AI division

Institutions have hung around the crypto space for years. But now they want you to know they are getting more proactive

The first phase wrapped up in October of last year

Though the opposing flow trend is likely to slow over time, industry watchers note, bitcoin fund assets could one day eclipse the $90 billion gold ETF space

The firm has previously invested in the companies behind Sui and Eigenlayer

Banking giant brings a Wellington Management-issued private equity fund onto Avalanche’s Spruce subnet as part of a proof of concept

Acquired firm Brassica offers custody and transfer agent services for private securities and alternative investments

The tokenized Yen will be backed 1-to-1 by Japanese Yen

No sane investor should be choosing a tokenized version of a product over the original if they have access to it

The crypto infrastructure firm backed by Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank looks to push tokenization further after securing Swiss regulatory approval

ERC-3643 is designed to deny transactions or actions if counterparties fail to meet compliance requirements

USD-pegged stablecoins remain the most popular tokenized asset, and adoption remains low for other “real-world assets”

We’re keeping the receipts on Crypto Twitter’s hottest takes heading into the new year

Coinbase is making a big push to bring institutions over to crypto, with tokenized real-world assets taking center stage

Whether real estate, diamonds or energy, crypto has an abundance of opportunities ahead of it through RWA tokenization

Uniswap Labs will be providing trading APIs to Talos investors through Fireblocks

Cross-chain protocol’s product development-focused unit Wormhole Labs formally launches following $225 million raise

Protocols continued to build in the blockchain space this past year despite a tumultuous 2022

The Hong Kong-based company’s seed round drew participation from Binance Labs and Shima Capital

JPMorgan Onyx also tapped Axelar, Provenance Blockchain and Oasis Pro for its recent Project Guardian pilots