Tokenization

Tokenization

Finance

Barclays looks for tech provider for new blockchain settlement engine: Bloomberg

The U.K. bank would rival JPMorgan and others in using decentralized technology for banking services.

Barclays logo on building (Jose Marroquin/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Grant Cardone plans to tokenize his firm's $5 billion real estate portfolio

The real estate investment mogul said his firm, Cardone Capital, is exploring blockchain-based tokens for property holdings as tokenization gains traction.

Grant Cardone (Cardone Capital)

Finance

Wall Street’s big blockchain win: SEC gives WisdomTree the green light for instant, around-the-clock trading

The move adds momentum to the $10 billion large tokenized Treasury market led by BlackRock, Circle and others.

Jonathan Steinberg (left), CEO, WisdomTree, and Kevin Reynolds, editor-in-chief, CoinDesk (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Canton advances cross-border repo to free up $300 trillion assets via tokenization

A group of global financial firms tokenized a repo transaction with U.K. government bonds for the first time.

16:9 Pounds (PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)

Finance

Dubai takes next step to make real estate flips instant in $16 billion tokenization plan

Dubai Land Department and Ctrl Alt move to the next phase of real estate tokenization project, enabling the resale of property tokens.

Dubai UAE (Pexels, Pixabay)

Finance

RWA issuers prioritize capital formation over liquidity, according to Brickken survey

Exclusive fourth quarter data shows 69.2% of issuers are live, while 84.6% report regulatory friction shaping tokenization rollout.

Nasdaq (By Luca Marfè -Wikimedia Commons/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump-linked World Liberty taps BlackRock-backed Securitize for hotel tokenization

The companies are working to structure and tokenize loan revenue tied to the Trump Organization's Maldives resort project.

Eric Trump speaks at Consensus 2025 in Toronto (CoinDesk)

Finance

South Korea’s Hanwha makes a $13 million bet on ‘seedless’ crypto wallets

The South Korean financial firm backs the U.S.-based blockchain company to accelerate enterprise wallet technology and real-world asset tokenization.

Wallet (hamedtaha/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Real estate billionaire Barry Sternlicht is ready to tokenize assets, but says U.S. regulation blocks it

The $125 billion real estate firm wants to offer blockchain-based tokens to clients but is stalled by regulation.

(Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

Finance

Tokenized pre-IPO shares topic ignites legal debate at Consensus Hong Kong 2026

Ultan Miller touts a blockchain-based pre-IPO index, while critics warn unauthorized equity tokenization risks legal and investor fallout.

Hecto Finance's Ultan Miller. (Photo by Olivier Acuna/Modified by CoinDesk)