Tokenization

Tokenization

Opinion

Democratizing weather derivatives through tokenization could be crypto's most important real-world use case

Main Street, which faces the most significant climate-related financial risk, currently lacks an avenue to hedge weather-related risks, argues CoinDesk’s Omkar Godbole.

An aerial view of a structure overwhelmed by a river flood in Bern, Switzerland. (Christian Wasserfallen/Pexels)

Markets

Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank lending limits

Smart collars monitor herd health in real time to prevent fraud, allowing local agricultural businesses to secure thousands in funding backed by livestock.

Dairy cows (Annie Spratt/Unsplash)

Finance

Uniswap pushes deeper into tokenized assets with permissioned trading pools

The framework, developed with Superstate, Securitize and Dowgo, lets regulated funds and securities trade on Uniswap while enforcing compliance rules necessary for institutions.

Uniswap logo on phone (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Finance

Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital joins tokenization push as Coinbase takes stake in onchain fund

The sovereign wealth-backed asset manager tapped KAIO to bring one of its private market funds onchain across Base, Solana and Sui networks.

Abu Dhabi skyline

Finance

24/7 financial rails: How BNY plans to eliminate the weekend lag in U.S. Treasuries

The bank will begin testing tokenized Treasuries on a private blockchain by year-end and expand its settlement network to cover more international trading hours.

BNY Mellon office (Vidar Nordli-Mathisen/Unsplash)

Finance

UK digital bond plans hinge on one missing piece: onchain cash

Experts say Britain's digital gilt pilot can unlock trapped liquidity in financial markets only if regulators approve an onchain stablecoin.

UK Prime Minister's official residence and headquarters. (Sgt. Tom Robinson/Wikipedia Commons)

Finance

Kraken parent expands tokenized stocks to Hong Kong, UK and South Korea equities

Payward's xStocks pushes beyond U.S. equities as competition to bring global stock markets onchain accelerates.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tokenization has become a strategic priority for 84% of financial firms

A Broadridge survey found Wall Street is accelerating tokenization efforts while betting on hybrid markets where digital and traditional assets coexist.

(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Web3

Airbnb CEO says X account was hacked, attacker posted AI-slop on tokenization

Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".

Airbnb website on a laptop

Finance

Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion

The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin