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Consensus Magazine

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.

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Finance

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.

Securitize co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo (Securitize)

Finance

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.

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Learn

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.

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Markets

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.

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Web3

Tokenized Collectibles Platform Americana Is Bringing High-End Physical Items On-Chain

Backed by Alexis Ohanian and OpenSea, the platform is creating blockchain-based solutions for several pain points associated with buying and selling high-end physical collectibles.

Americana's "concierge vaulting" facility. (Americana)

Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Real-World Assets Come to Blockchains

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Markets

More Tokenized Treasuries Arrive on Polygon as Digital Bond Market Expands

Ondo’s OUSG token, one of the largest on-chain tokenized Treasury products, has accrued $134 million of assets under management on Ethereum.

U.S. Treasury Department seal (Bill Perry/Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

Markets

Tokenized U.S. Treasurys Surpass $600M as Crypto Investors Capture TradFi Yield

Crypto investors now effectively lend $614 million to the U.S. government via different tokenized Treasury products, according to real-world asset data firm RWA.xyz.

Market for tokenized Treasuries (RWA.xyz)