Tokenized Assets


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)

Finance

Index Coop Aims to Improve Limitations of Protocol, On-Chain Structured Products

The infrastructure limitations of this sector include a lack of cross-chain asset support, expense in maintaining products due to high issuance costs and difficulty rebalancing on-chain products due to slippage.

Index (Maksym Kaharlytskyi/Unsplash)

Policy

U.S. Banking Watchdog Makes Case for Tokenization, Just Not on Public Blockchains

OCC chief Michael Hsu – a crypto critic – argued asset tokenization is the future, but he said centralized efforts are the way ahead.

Acting OCC Chief Michael Hsu (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Investing Platform Finblox Starts Offering Tokenized Treasury Yield With OpenEden

Demand for tokenized versions of short-term U.S. government bonds has been increasing as crypto investors turn to real-world assets to earn returns on their investments.

Yield sign (Shutterstock)

Markets

For Financial Advisors, Real World Assets Could Be a Safe(r) Path to Crypto

Tokenized Real World Assets (RWA) are a potential avenue for financial advisors to approach the crypto sector while minimizing risk.

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Markets

Demand for Tokenized Treasury Bonds Soars as Crypto Investors Chase TradFi Yield

The combined market capitalization of tokenized money market funds is nearing $500 million as high yields in traditional markets attract crypto capital.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

In the 'Stablecoin Olympics,' No Winner Will Take All

The fight involving stablecoins, central bank digital currencies and tokenized deposits will play out across multiple disciplines. No single contender will win them all, says Dea Markova, of Forefront Advisers.

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Policy

Nigeria's SEC Mulls Allowing Tokenized Equity, Property but Not Crypto: Bloomberg

The regulator is considering applications for digital asset exchanges on a trial basis.

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Finance

Tokenization of Real-World Assets 'Changes How Value Is Transferred'

Institutions and fund managers have wanted to tokenize assets for some time, but it's been a manner of infrastructure catching up.

Panelists discuss tokenization on stage (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Trading Legend’s Next Move Is Bringing U.S. Treasurys to Blockchains, With Plans for Corporate Bonds, Too

PV01, which launched last month, is using blockchain technology to target long-standing issues in debt capital markets.

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