Tokenization

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Tokenization News Roundup: Pendulum Swings Toward Doubters
In recent weeks, the buzz around the emerging tool of tokenizing real-world assets has been on how it will grow to achieve the $16 trillion-by-2030 potential that the Boston C...
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How Crypto Tokenization Can Go Wrong (and How to Make It Right)
Real-world assets could become a $5 trillion industry, analysts project. But without certain changes tokenization won't be a meaningful evolution in finance.
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Maple Finance's Tokenized Treasuries Available to U.S. Investors After Securities Exemption
The platform's cash management facility has attracted $22 million of deposits since opened in April.
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DeFi Definitely Isn't Dead
The commentariat said decentralized finance is in danger amid the crypto winter and recent spate of hacks. They're dead wrong.
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Tokenization News Roundup: Avalanche Invests $50M in RWA
Competition among blockchains and regions like Asia to grab some of the RWA market, new lending pool that supports Colombian farmers, the first-ever tokenization under Spain’s...
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Asset Tokenization in Europe Gets a Boost With Securitize's Landmark Tokenized Equity Issuance
The firm started issuing tokens representing equity in a Spanish real estate investment trust under Spain’s new digital asset supervision.
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Italy’s Central Bank Taps Polygon, Fireblocks DeFi Project to Help Institutions Dabble With Tokenized Assets
The initiative aims to help Italian banks, asset managers and financial institutions, including the $1 trillion banking group Intesa Sanpaolo, experiment with decentralized f...
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RWA Tokenization: What Does It Mean to Tokenize Real-World Assets?
Traditional finance giants are excited about the idea of putting ownership of assets like precious metals, art, homes and more on the blockchain.
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Avalanche Foundation Commits $50M to Bring More Tokenized Assets to Blockchain
The program follows Avalanche’s initiative to financial institutions to test blockchain services on one of its subnets.
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Tokenized Collectibles Platform Americana Is Bringing High-End Physical Items On-Chain
Backed by Alexis Ohanian and OpenSea, the platform is creating blockchain-based solutions for several pain points associated with buying and selling high-end physical collecti...
Americana's "concierge vaulting" facility. (Americana)