Real-world assets: tokenized funds, real estate, commodities and on-chain capital markets.
XRPL RWA volume has reached roughly $7.03 billion over a rolling 30-day window, according to RWA.xyz data cited this week – a figure that would have sounded like a typo on the XRP Ledger’s books in January, when the network’s entire real-world-asset market capitalization sat near $40.8 million. That is the genuinely newsworthy part: not … Read more
Castle Labs: Solana RWA market cap grew from $700M to $4.3B in a year and now equals 26% of Ethereum’s $16.6B tokenized asset base.
The Kraken Saldo Bank combination is the phrase EU financial regulators will be hearing a lot more of. Payward, the parent company of the Kraken exchange, announced on October 14 an agreement to acquire Saldo Bank, a Lithuania-based online bank licensed in the European Union. If the deal clears regulatory review, Payward becomes the first … Read more
Morgan Stanley tokenized equities support slides from H2 2026 to Q1 2027 — not weak demand, but a shortage of tokenized stock product on its ATS ahead of DTCC’s October launch.
The Zhibao Bedrock tokenization framework, announced Monday, would give Nasdaq shareholders something Wall Street has promised for a decade and rarely shipped: their SEC-registered Class A ordinary shares recorded and transferred natively on public blockchains. The pact pairs a 2,380-Bitcoin treasury with a plan to put those coins to work – and it arrives with … Read more
The great tokenization gold rush just got a scorecard, and the report card is bracing: RWA tokenization has ballooned to roughly $60 billion across more than 7,000 products and 12 asset classes – but exactly one of those classes is actually built for prime time. BeInCrypto Research, published October 10 via Yahoo Finance, spent the … Read more
ESMA has opened a review of tokenized collateral, publishing a 35-page Call for Evidence on October 9 that asks a pointed question: do EU clearing rules actually hold up when the collateral posting against risk is a token instead of a bond certificate? The European Securities and Markets Authority wants input from central counterparties, clearing … Read more
On October 8, 2026, Securitize (NYSE: SECZ) officially entered the next phase of its market evolution by launching ‘Securitize Stocks’ on the Solana blockchain. The move brings tokenized stocks on Solana to a roster of eligible investors across the United States, the European Union, and other permitted jurisdictions – a notable milestone for a firm … Read more
Tether signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Bank of Kazakhstan and the Alatau City Authority on October 7, 2026, putting the Tether Kazakhstan partnership on the map — at least on paper. The agreement covers stablecoin use cases and asset tokenization across the Central Asian republic: the parties will study international stablecoin issuance … Read more
S&P Global Ratings has introduced a risk assessment framework for crypto lending vaults, giving institutional allocators a structured way to judge a market with roughly $10 billion in deposits.