Tokenization
Securitize Agrees to Buy Crypto Wealth Manager Onramp to Expand RIA Services
The acquisition is expected to close in the coming days and terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Tokenization News Roundup: Pendulum Swings Toward Doubters
In recent weeks, the buzz around the emerging tool of tokenizing real-world assets has been on how it will grow to achieve the $16 trillion-by-2030 potential that the Boston Consulting Group predicted last year. Inevitably, criticism intrudes, and this week there is sober opinion, caution and skepticism in the zeitgeist.

How Crypto Tokenization Can Go Wrong (and How to Make It Right)
Real-world assets could become a $5 trillion industry, analysts project. But without certain changes tokenization won't be a meaningful evolution in finance.

Maple Finance's Tokenized Treasuries Available to U.S. Investors After Securities Exemption
The platform's cash management facility has attracted $22 million of deposits since opened in April.

DeFi Definitely Isn't Dead
The commentariat said decentralized finance is in danger amid the crypto winter and recent spate of hacks. They're dead wrong.

Tokenization News Roundup: Avalanche Invests $50M in RWA
Competition among blockchains and regions like Asia to grab some of the RWA market, new lending pool that supports Colombian farmers, the first-ever tokenization under Spain’s new laws, how the U.K’s regulations may lead to the country becoming a tokenization hub, and more for the week ending July 27, 2023.

Asset Tokenization in Europe Gets a Boost With Securitize's Landmark Tokenized Equity Issuance
The firm started issuing tokens representing equity in a Spanish real estate investment trust under Spain’s new digital asset supervision.

Italy’s Central Bank Taps Polygon, Fireblocks DeFi Project to Help Institutions Dabble With Tokenized Assets
The initiative aims to help Italian banks, asset managers and financial institutions, including the $1 trillion banking group Intesa Sanpaolo, experiment with decentralized finance and security tokens.

RWA Tokenization: What Does It Mean to Tokenize Real-World Assets?
Traditional finance giants are excited about the idea of putting ownership of assets like precious metals, art, homes and more on the blockchain.

Avalanche Foundation Commits $50M to Bring More Tokenized Assets to Blockchain
The program follows Avalanche’s initiative to financial institutions to test blockchain services on one of its subnets.

