Brazil’s largest energy giant tests Cardano to fix carbon double-counting
Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled energy company, is testing Cardano to track sustainable aviation fuel benefits and prevent double-counting. The Cardano Foundation said on Sept. 30 that an ongoing research and development collaboration had…
IBM links 17 banks to the SWIFT ledger, but the cloud risk persists
IBM announced a beta connection between its Digital Asset Haven and SWIFT’s shared ledger for tokenized deposits on Sept. 24, using an ISO 20022 Messaging Adapter that lets participating institutions instruct ledger transactions through standard…
ECB launches ‘digital euro for banks’ and prepares to buy tokenized bonds
The Eurosystem launched Pontes on Monday, giving banks a live route to settle tokenized assets in central-bank money. The European Central Bank (ECB) simultaneously began preparations to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized securities,…
After Congress killed its landmark crypto bill, the SEC unlocked the $77 trillion US stock market through tokenization
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a five-year pathway for regulated US stocks to trade on blockchain-native venues. The Innovation Exemption came two days after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto…
Stellar activates Protocol 28 as network hits record throughput and RWA value climbs
Stellar activated Protocol 28 as the blockchain hit a new sustained throughput record, adding tools designed for larger smart-contract deployments. The network ran Protocol 28 by Sept. 17 after a scheduled mainnet upgrade vote a day earlier. The release…
Why Nasdaq surveillance cannot settle the fight over 24/7 tokenized markets
Nasdaq’s agreement to invest $100 million in Payward, Kraken’s parent company, adds a planned surveillance rollout to a push into tokenized and always-on markets. One day earlier, Citadel Securities asked U.S. regulators to keep products tied…
It looks like a stock and trades like a stock, but it isn’t actually a stock – what is it?
Tokenized stocks promise cheaper trading and wider access, while some products make speculation easier without passing shareholder rights to the buyer. Two people can open their investment apps, see the same company name beside a similar price, and still…
A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth
Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at…
The next phase of tokenization is utility
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. Tokenized funds have stopped being a novelty. Tokenized US Treasury funds alone now hold roughly $16 billion in distributed value and the list of issuers…
Can tokenized assets continue to scale faster than the revenue models behind them?
Securitize closed its first quarter as a public company with average tokenized assets under management hitting a record $4.3 billion, up 16% year over year, while transaction volume on the platform jumped 147% to $5.3 billion. Total revenue fell 5% to…