On-chain finance

Michael Saylo

2026-09-20 00:06:51

Michael Saylor says broader adoption is the best protection for digital asset innovation

Strategy founder Michael Saylor said the digital asset industry should spend the next two years pushing financial products into wider use rather than focusing on extra restrictions that may appear in a final compromise version of the CLARITY Act. In his view, the strongest defense of innovation is to make sure more people benefit from it directly. Saylor argued that the industry should lower costs, simplify access, offer more practical services, and give users stronger control over their funds. That, he said, would build a public base with a direct stake in supporting financial innovation. He also said the CLARITY Act would limit service providers from offering yield solely because users hold payment stablecoins, while also placing limits on some activity rewards and innovation sandboxes. At the same time, Saylor noted that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Treasury Department have recently used existing authority to advance tokenized stocks, on-chain finance, and stablecoins. He said the crypto industry should expand digital asset products in 2027 and 2028 and work to turn temporary regulatory measures into long-term rules.

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tokenized equ

2026-09-15 11:58:25

Standard Chartered says tokenized equities market could grow about 250x by 2028

Standard Chartered said in its latest research report that the tokenized equities market could expand by roughly 250 times by 2028. The bank said Arbitrum’s business model may help traditional financial institutions move assets and operations on-chain and benefit from the development of tokenized equities and other real-world assets. As of early September, the tokenized equities market was worth about $2.9 billion, making it one of the faster-growing asset classes in the real-world asset sector. The report ties that growth outlook to infrastructure that can support traditional finance participants as they bring more activity onto blockchain rails.

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RootData

2026-09-11 07:56:37

RootData and ChainCatcher to host TradFi On-Chain forum during Korea Blockchain Week 2026

RootData will jointly host a forum titled TradFi On-Chain with ChainCatcher during Korea Blockchain Week 2026. The event is scheduled for Oct. 1 from 14:00 to 18:00 GMT+9 in Seoul’s Gangnam district, South Korea. According to the announcement cited by ChainCatcher, the forum will focus on the intersection of regulation, capital markets and on-chain finance. The source said South Korea is speeding up work on a digital asset regulatory framework and the rollout of tokenized securities, a trend it described as accelerating the convergence of traditional finance and blockchain. Against that backdrop, the Korean market has drawn attention from global entrepreneurs, institutions and investors. The event is listed as one of the important side activities of this year’s Korea Blockchain Week. Organizers said it will bring together institutional leaders, exchange executives and industry innovators for discussions tied to regulatory developments and market structure. Registration is available at the link provided in the original notice.

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Fidelity

2026-09-10 04:38:11

Fidelity expands FIDD stablecoin into on-chain finance with institutional dollar redemption

Fidelity Investments is expanding its $50 million FIDD stablecoin into on-chain finance, adding services aimed at institutional users. According to Techub News, the offering includes U.S. dollar redemptions, transfers on Ethereum, and monthly reserve reviews. The stablecoin is designed to give institutional clients a compliant and transparent digital dollar option. The move also targets a closer link between traditional finance and blockchain-based infrastructure. The report cited Crypto.news as the source of the information.

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SEC

2026-09-09 03:26:03

Market rumor points to possible SEC tokenization exemption, Andy says

Andy, founder of The Rollup, said in a post that market chatter suggests the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may be preparing what could become its biggest innovation exemption for tokenization to date. According to his description, the proposal could allow tokenized securities to trade through registered transfer agents without requiring broker-dealer licenses and without following the rules that apply to traditional trading venues or alternative trading systems, or ATSs. He also said the rumored framework could extend to U.S. retail investors as well as overseas participants. Andy said the implications would be significant if the report proves accurate. In his view, tokenized funds could be issued and traded directly on-chain as tokens, with transfer agents maintaining the legal ownership registry on-chain. He added that underlying assets held by those funds, including stocks and bonds, could also be tokenized, creating an on-chain structure where both fund tokens and underlying asset tokens trade in parallel. Andy also claimed that one large fund has already received a green light from the SEC, though he said there has been no official confirmation. He speculated that ARK, Fidelity, or BlackRock could be involved.

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KuCoin Ventur

2026-09-08 02:00:00

KuCoin Ventures Weekly: On-Chain Finance Infrastructure Expands, Crypto Market Resilient Under High Real Rates

KuCoin Ventures released its latest weekly report, noting that on-chain financial infrastructure continues to expand and the crypto market remains resilient under high real interest rates.

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Hyperliquid

2026-09-07 03:04:13

Ryan Watkins says Hyperliquid is evolving toward an exchange for everything

In a wide-ranging interview published by TechFlowPost and sourced from The Rollup, Ryan Watkins laid out why he sees Hyperliquid as more than a successful on-chain perpetuals venue. He described it as an early version of an “exchange for everything,” built around a permissionless ledger, cross-asset collateral, expanding product lines, and a path into the U.S. market through HIP-3 and related compliance structures. Watkins recalled the moment HYPE surged from about $59 to near $70 after Donald Trump mentioned Hyperliquid on live television, saying the team only realized the trigger after the move was already underway. He argued that the project’s key question had long been U.S. regulatory access, and that the market is now beginning to reassess Hyperliquid with that overhang easing. He also discussed the metrics he watches most closely, including share gains against major centralized exchanges, penetration into global CFD, futures and options flow, net revenue growth, deposits, and average on-chain account equity. Beyond Hyperliquid, Watkins addressed barbell portfolio construction, the divide between cash-flow-generating crypto businesses and store-of-value assets, the relative position of Bitcoin and Zcash, and why social trading and creator incentives may become a major commercial layer of on-chain finance.

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Policy and Re

2026-09-07 02:15:50

Mike Cagney says DeFi is a better fit for asset-based finance and can avoid rehypothecation

Figure co-founder and executive chairman Mike Cagney said in a post on X that decentralized finance is better suited to asset-based finance, or ABF, because it can avoid rehypothecation while supporting direct collateral perfection, self-custody or autonomous venues, and liquidity collateralization. He said Figure has already brought ABF on-chain, but the sector is still in its early stages and roughly $6 trillion of the market has not yet moved on-chain at scale. Cagney also listed five reasons traditional finance has been slow to adopt on-chain applications: weak user interfaces, the long-running tradeoff between qualified custody and recoverable self-custody, institutional needs for multi-wallet and multi-user setups with tiered permissions and full audit exports, an evolving regulatory framework despite clearer precedents for natively on-chain securities, and KYC tools that he said are more solvable on-chain than many assume through programmable screening and wallet-level permissions.

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