Real World Assets

Real World Assets

Finance

Ondo drops tokenized asset blockchain plans for private, high-speed trading network

The new network powers Ondo's recently-launched perpetual futures platform and will eventually support trading across onchain financial assets.

Ondo Finance CEO Ian de Bode 16:9 (Ondo Finance)

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

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

Aave rolls out vaults for yield-hungry fintech investors

Aave's new Stable Vaults product lets wallets, exchanges and payment apps offer yields on stablecoin deposits

Stani Kulechov, Aave Labs (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Finance

Wall Street will run entirely on the blockchain by 2030, says Brickken CEO

Edwin Mata argues that EU regulations are choking local startups, leaving the U.S. and automated AI tools to run the future of tokenized finance.

Edwin Mata. Brickken. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Finance

Goldman Sachs teams with Apex, Archax for tokenized real estate fund

The fund combines blockchain native issuance with established fund structures.

Goldman Sachs logo (Shutterstock)

Finance

Solana DEX Orca launches new marketplace for tokenized real-world assets

The launch comes as crypto companies increasingly focus on tokenizing traditional financial assets, a market many in the industry see as a major growth opportunity.

orca, whale

Finance

Animoca-backed NUVA connects Figure's $19 billion of tokenized assets to Ethereum

The protocol, led by veteran BNY executive Anthony Moro, aims to connect real-world assets with DeFi markets, starting with home equity lines of credit and Treasuries.

Anthony Moro, CEO of Nuva Labs (Nuva Labs)

Finance

NYSE tokenization partners warn synthetic stock tokens could mislead retail traders

Offshore synthetic tokens may not represent the underlying equity, use company names without approval, and exploit regulatory arbitrage.

CoinDesk

Markets

OKX joins crypto’s pre-IPO frenzy with OpenAI, SpaceX perpetual futures

Crypto exchanges are increasingly competing to offer retail traders exposure to Silicon Valley’s most valuable private firms, despite the products conferring neither equity ownership nor shareholder rights.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk