Tokenization


Finance

Ethereum treasury firm buys jet engines amid tokenization push after selling ETH

ETHZilla is betting on bringing real-world assets on blockchain rails after it sold at least $114.5 million of its ETH stash over the past months.

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Finance

R3 bets on Solana to bring institutional yield onchain

As DeFi investors seek stable, uncorrelated returns, R3 is building Solana-native structures to bring private credit and trade finance into crypto markets.

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Markets

Binance plans to bring back tokenized stock trading after 2021 retreat

The exchange shut down its earlier effort under regulatory pressure, but it's now back to exploring offering tokenized equities on its platform.

Binance

Markets

Ark Invest sees bitcoin and tokenization driving the next phase of digital asset growth

The asset manager said bitcoin’s institutional adoption and asset tokenization are pushing digital assets toward scale, potentially reaching tens of trillions by decade’s end.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Finance

AI infrastructure firm secures up to $500 million onchain loan after bypassing banks

The credit facility used GPU hardware as tokenized collateral, enabling faster capital access without traditional credit checks.

US dollars loan ( Frederick Warren/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Tokenization firm Superstate raises $82.5 million to bring Wall Street onchain

With the new funding, the company aims to bring IPOs and fundraising onto blockchain rails like Ethereum and Solana.

Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate (Superstate)

Opinion

The Base token should give holders voting power over Coinbase itself

If BASE becomes economically tied to COIN, the token would trade not as a memeified L2 token, but as a globally accessible representation of equity-like value.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance co-founder Zhao in talks with ‘probably a dozen’ governments on asset tokenization

Tokenization could allow governments to raise funds by selling fractional ownership of state-owned assets like infrastructure, real estate or commodities.

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (Nikhilesh De/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Private credit may be the breakout use case for tokenization: Maple's Sidney Powell

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell said blockchain’s biggest opportunity isn’t tokenized Treasury bills or funds — instead, it’s bringing opaque, illiquid private credit markets onchain.

Art installation reminiscent of digital ecosystems

CoinDesk Indices

Crypto Long & Short: 2026 Marks the Inflection Point for 24/7 Capital Markets

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, David Mercer of LMAX Group writes on tokenization and capital markets that won’t sleep. Then, Andy Baehr looks ahead to crypto’s “sophomore year.”

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