Tokenized Assets


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)

Finance

Crypto Lender Maple Finance Opens U.S. Treasury Bill Pool for Cash Management

Maple’s new lending pool offers accredited investors, crypto firms and DAO treasuries a way to earn yield on their idle stablecoins by investing in one-month U.S. Treasury bills.

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

Finance

Tokenization of Real-World Assets a Key Driver of Digital Asset Adoption: Bank of America

The tokenized gold market reached over $1 billion in value last month, the report said.

Bank of America (Taylor Simpson/Unsplash)

Markets

Tokenized Gold Surpasses $1B in Market Cap as Physical Asset Nears All-Time Price High

This a type of stablecoin pegs its price to gold, while the tokens on the blockchain represent ownership of physical gold managed by the issuer.

All but one of the recently launched spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) charge a lower fee than the largest gold ETF, making them a cheaper investment into a gold-like asset. (Unsplash)

Finance

TradFi Banks Team Up to Create Digital Bonds Trading Platform on Blockchain

France's Credit Agricole CIB and Sweden's SEB are creating a system with a goal of being environmentally friendly.

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Markets

Blockchain-Based Debt Protocol Obligate Records First Bond Issuance on Polygon Network

Swiss commodities trading firm Muff Trading AG issued corporate bonds using Obligate’s decentralized finance platform, which is set to open to the public on March 27.

Switzerland flag (Stephen Leonardi/Unsplash)

Markets

Securities Platform DEFYCA to Release Tokenized Private Debt Protocol on Avalanche

DEFYCA’s launch highlights the growing trend of bringing tokenized versions of traditional markets like debt to blockchain-based protocols.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Has Tokenization’s Moment Finally Come?

Tokenization of real-world assets has been dismissed by many crypto purists for operating under a centralized framework, but new technological advances have migrated the process from closed, permissioned projects onto public, permissionless blockchain platforms.

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Policy

Hong Kong Successfully Offered Inaugural $100M Tokenized Green Bond

Hong Kong's central bank had been exploring tokenization of green bonds since at least 2021.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)