Tokenized Assets


Finance

Tokenized Credit Platform Centrifuge Plans Institutional RWA Lending on Coinbase's Base, Raises $15M in VC Investment

CFG, the protocol's native token, spiked as much as 14% after the announcement before paring gains and outperformed other DeFi tokens.

Centrifuge is one of the largest blockchain-based credit platform with $270 million of active loans. (Mae Mu/Unsplash)

Finance

Max Boonen's PV01 Tokenizes $5M Treasury Bill, Plans to Look at Corporate Bonds

The company aims to bring corporate bonds to blockchain rails, which could have averted a similar credit meltdown to what happened in crypto in 2022, CEO and co-founder Max Boonen said in an interview.

Maxime Boonen, co-founder of B2C2 and PV01 (PV01)

Markets

Ondo Spikes 8% as Ondo Finance Tests Instant Conversion From BlackRock's Tokenized Fund to USDC

Stablecoin issuer Circle introduced a new smart contract function earlier Thursday to allow near-instant, around-the-clock redemptions from BlackRock's BUIDL fund for USDC stablecoins.

Ondo price on April 11 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Over $1B in U.S. Treasury Notes Has Been Tokenized on Public Blockchains

Tokenized Treasuries are digital representations of U.S. government bonds that can be traded as tokens on the blockchain.

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Markets

BlackRock's Tokenized Fund Quickly Rakes in $245M, Right Behind Franklin Templeton's Older Offering

The tokenized U.S. Treasury market is poised to reach $1 billion "very soon" given the growth of BlackRock's BUIDL, an analyst noted.

Larry Fink (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Markets

Ondo Finance to Move $95M to BlackRock's Tokenized Fund for Instant Settlements for Its T-Bill Token

The allocation marks to first example of a crypto protocol leveraging BlackRock's tokenized fund for its own offering.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

The Benefits of Assets Tokenization

We need to start thinking of blockchains as infrastructure for financial innovation rather than concentrating on the prices of a few digital assets, like bitcoin and ether, says WisdomTree’s digital of digital assets, Benjamin Dean.

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Finance

TrueFi Unveils Lending Protocol for Tokenized Real-World Assets; TRU Jumps 14%

Investors will be able to take out crypto loans by pledging TrueFi's U.S. Treasury bill tokens, with plans to expand collateral to other types of tokenized RWAs, according to the proposal.

(Jason Leung/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Sygnum Tokenizes $50M of Fidelity International Fund as Matter Labs Moves Reserves to Blockchain

The move was part of zkSync developer Matter Labs' long-term goal to move its treasury reserves to a blockchain.

Art installation reminiscent of digital ecosystems

Finance

Superstate Debuts Tokenized Short-Term Treasury Fund on Ethereum to Compete for Zero-Yield Stablecoins

Superstate's USTB token aims to offer institutional investors an alternative to stablecoins to earn a yield on their on-chain cash holdings, company founder and CEO Robert Leshner said in an interview.

Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate (Superstate)