RWA tokenization

16 days agoNews Editor

CONNECT Singapore panels spotlight tokenized market liquidity, stablecoin spending and tougher crypto exits

At Cointelegraph’s CONNECT event in Singapore, panelists from trading firms, payment companies, analytics platforms and venture investors focused on three pressure points in the digital-asset market: liquidity in tokenized assets, practical stablecoin payments and increasingly difficult exit paths for crypto investors. GSR chief revenue officer Alex Taaffe said tokenized real-world assets are creating new market access in areas such as pre-IPO shares, commodities and global equities, but investor demand has not kept up with the pace of issuance. He and DWF Labs partner Lingling Jiang also pointed to fragmented liquidity as more issuers and blockchains enter the space. Another panel argued that stablecoins will not see broader adoption unless they fit into day-to-day consumer spending. Speakers from ether.fi, USDD, FinHarbor and Mercuryo said user experience, local payment compatibility and jurisdiction-specific compliance remain central obstacles, even as the stablecoin market cap has reached $306 billion. A separate discussion on onchain trading infrastructure highlighted cross-chain liquidity discovery and counterparty risk management, while venture investors said weak liquidity outside large-cap cryptocurrencies has made exits harder. Speakers from Nomad Capital, OneAsset and Funders VC said a maturing market is forcing startups to show stronger fundamentals and pushing investors toward longer time horizons.

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Tether

25 days agoNews Editor

Tether, Kazakhstan central bank study tenge stablecoin pilot and RWA tokenization

Tether has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Bank of Kazakhstan and the Alatau City Authority to examine a tenge-pegged stablecoin and a framework for tokenizing real-world assets. The parties plan to review international models for stablecoin issuance, map out possible use cases and prepare a proposal for a pilot tied to Kazakhstan’s national currency. The agreement also includes work on identifying assets that could be tokenized and launching a pilot in Alatau that may use Tether’s Hadron platform. In parallel, the three parties will run workshops and training sessions focused on stablecoin issuance, reserve management and real-world asset tokenization. The move comes as Kazakhstan steps up its broader digital asset agenda, with government-backed initiatives this year spanning tokenization, crypto payments, mining and digital payments, alongside a 65-measure development plan and updates on the country’s crypto reserve and regulatory sandbox activity.

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AsiaStrategy

26 days agoNews Editor

AsiaStrategy and Plume plan joint venture for RWA tokenization outside the U.S.

Nasdaq-listed AsiaStrategy (SORA) and blockchain company Plume have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to explore a joint venture focused on real-world asset tokenization products for Asia and markets outside the United States. Under the proposed arrangement, Plume would provide tokenization infrastructure, technology, and related regulatory qualifications. AsiaStrategy and its affiliated firm Sora Ventures would handle asset sourcing, distribution, and capital markets channels across Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates. The two sides said they plan to initially examine products that combine traditional assets with compliant on-chain issuance. Specific products, structures, and launch sequencing are still under discussion, and no product has been issued at this stage.

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Ondo Finance

26 days agoNews Editor

Ondo launches tokenized private-market notes tied to a pre-IPO AI company

Ondo Finance is moving deeper into private markets with a new product line called Ondo Private Markets. The platform said its first offering will give eligible investors tokenized exposure to an unnamed artificial intelligence company that is still private and preparing for a future public listing. The structure does not transfer ownership of the company’s shares. Instead, the notes are designed so that payouts track the value realized per common share at a qualifying liquidity event. According to Ondo, eligible investors will be able to keep the notes in self-custody wallets or trade them on secondary markets on a 24/7 basis. The company said the first notes are expected to begin trading this week. It also plans to roll out similar products linked to companies in robotics, cybersecurity, biotech and infrastructure. Ondo added that its tokenized equities platform, Ondo Stocks, now has more than $1 billion in total value locked and offers more than 450 tokenized US stocks and exchange-traded funds. The move comes as other firms also push into private-market access. In April, Robinhood’s venture fund invested $75 million in OpenAI common stock for exposure through a publicly traded closed-end fund, while Citi was reported in June to be preparing a blockchain marketplace for private-company shares.

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Securitize

2 months agoNews Editor

Securitize earnings show RWA tokenization scale is growing faster than revenue

Securitize’s first quarterly earnings report since going public showed a sharp mismatch between platform activity and financial results. Average tokenized assets under management hit a record $4.3 billion, up 16% year over year, while platform volume surged 147% to $5.3 billion. Revenue moved the other way: total revenue fell 5% to $14.4 million, tokenization revenue dropped about 12% to $7.8 million, and adjusted EBITDA swung to a $5.5 million loss. CFO Francisco Flores said revenue tied directly to assets under management remains minimal and that most platform volume still is not monetized. The company has also lowered its full-year revenue outlook to $70 million-$80 million, down from a pre-listing projection of $110 million for 2026. Industry executives cited in the report argue the results reflect a broader structural problem in tokenization: onboarding more assets to blockchain does not automatically create recurring, scalable revenue. They said the sector still depends heavily on custom integrations, jurisdiction-specific setups, and professional services, while long-term infrastructure revenue has yet to catch up. The report also warns that dividing revenue by total platform volume can give investors a misleading picture, because the company’s reported transaction volume includes activities such as investments, redemptions, distributions, and cross-chain asset transfers, only a small portion of which currently generates income.

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Robinhood Chain

2 months agoNews Editor

BONER-HIMS pool on Robinhood Chain highlights a new DeFi market for tokenized stocks

Robinhood Chain is becoming a testing ground for one of DeFi’s stranger market structures: pairing tokenized equities with crypto-native assets such as memecoins. Cointelegraph reports that HIMS, a token designed to track shares of telehealth company Hims & Hers listed on the New York Stock Exchange, was paired in a liquidity pool with BONER, a deliberately absurd memecoin. Traders could swap directly between the two assets, and at one stage the pool held 31,198 HIMS tokens, more than half of the 58,714 tokenized HIMS shares in circulation. That imbalance briefly pushed the Robinhood Chain price of HIMS to $132.64, compared with the real stock’s $28.84 closing price on the NYSE. The article says Robinhood Chain, less than three months after launch, has already seen pairings such as BONER/HIMS, AI/NVIDIA and SPACEHOOD/SPCX. It also notes that launchpad LONG said its stock-paired markets recorded more than $425 million in 24-hour volume on Sept. 2, with nearly $12 million locked in stock-token liquidity. The piece frames the development as a composability experiment for tokenized real-world assets rather than a settled mechanism for price discovery.

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Morgan Stanley

2 months agoNews Editor

Morgan Stanley says blockchain adoption may benefit institutions more than token holders

Morgan Stanley’s Sept. 8 digital assets report argues that adoption and value capture are not the same thing. The bank says digital assets are moving from speculation toward financial infrastructure, with stablecoin supply above $300 billion, tokenized real-world assets nearing $40 billion, and institutional participation accelerating. Still, that does not automatically make public protocols or token holders the main winners. In Morgan Stanley’s base case, the financial system and blockchain networks are more likely to converge through hybrid structures than shift fully into permissionless finance. Existing institutions may keep much of the economic upside because they still control distribution, custody, compliance, and customer relationships. The report also separates the outlook for Bitcoin from the broader digital asset infrastructure theme, describing BTC primarily as a monetary asset and a non-sovereign store of value. For investors, the report’s central message is to distinguish between whether the technology is being adopted and who actually captures the economics.

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XRP Seoul 2026

2 months agoNews Editor

XRP Seoul 2026 unveils second speaker batch, adding Korean banks and global crypto firms

XRPL Korea on Sept. 4 released the second batch of speakers for XRP Seoul 2026, adding Doppler Finance, t54 Labs, Flare, Variational, Evernorth and Squid to the event lineup. The new names join previously announced Ripple executives including President Monica Long, Christina Chan and Ayo Akinyele. Korean licensed financial institutions have also been added, with Woori Bank, KakaoBank, Kbank and Kyobo Securities set to send senior representatives. The conference is scheduled for Oct. 3 at Grand Hyatt Seoul during Korea Blockchain Week 2026, which the article says is co-hosted with Upbit. Ripple is the title sponsor. According to the organizer, the agenda will cover real-world asset tokenization, stablecoins, digital asset treasury strategies, AI agent payments and on-chain exchanges for tokenized assets. The newly announced speakers span institutional XRPL infrastructure, AI payment rails, DeFi access for non-smart-contract assets, on-chain trading venues for crypto and traditional assets, XRP treasury plans and cross-chain liquidity routing. Organizers also said more speakers, sponsors and the full schedule will be released later. The previous XRP Seoul 2025 event, held at COEX in Seoul, drew more than 100 companies and about 3,000 attendees, and this year’s edition has been upgraded to a new venue.

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