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Bitfinex Resumes USDt Tokenized Bonds on Liquid

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Bitfinex Securities said on Monday it will resume issuing tokenized bonds for Luxembourg-based securitization fund ALTERNATIVE, with future sales expected to exceed $10 million. The USDt-denominated bonds will be issued and settled on the Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain, with fundraising, coupon payments and principal repayments executed fully onchain. The move follows four prior tokenized bond issuances since 2023 totaling $6.2 million, three of which have matured and been fully repaid, representing about $1 million in principal returned to investors. Across those offerings, investors received 20 onchain coupon payments worth…

Northern Trust Launches Tokenized Treasury Money Market Fund Share Class

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Northern Trust Asset Management has launched a tokenized share class of its NIF Treasury Instruments Portfolio, marking its entry into the digital assets market, according to the company.  The structure uses distributed ledger technology to maintain a digital mirror of share ownership, while the underlying portfolio continues to invest in short-term US Treasurys. According to Monday’s announcement, the shares will initially be offered through BNY’s LiquidityDirect platform, which operates on Goldman Sachs’ Digital Asset Platform. The fund itself does not use blockchain technology or invest in crypto assets. Instead, authorized…

Tokenized Gold Dominates Weekend Price Discovery as CME Futures Close

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Gold pricing shifts onto blockchain networks once US futures markets close for the weekend, according to Iggy Ioppe, former chief investment officer at Credit Suisse and now chief investment officer (CIO) at liquidity infrastructure firm Theo. CME gold futures stop trading at 5:00 pm ET on Friday and reopen at 6:00 pm ET on Sunday. During that interval, regulated futures markets are inactive and most remaining activity occurs through private over-the-counter deals in Asia that are not publicly reported. As a result, tokenized gold assets such as PAX Gold (PAXG)…

Banking giant Barclays explores blockchain platform for payments and tokenized deposits

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Barclays, the British multinational banking giant, is exploring building a blockchain platform for payments and deposits, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people with knowledge of the exploration. The bank is evaluating technology providers and aims to select partners as early as April. The initiative could encompass both stablecoin integration and tokenized deposit capabilities. Barclays has shifted from a cautious approach to active infrastructure investment to keep pace with industry peers like JPMorgan and HSBC, which have deployed distributed ledger technology in financial services. In October 2025, the London-based lender joined a…

Bloomberg, Kaiko Bring Licensed Data to Tokenized Markets

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Bloomberg is collaborating with Kaiko, a Paris-based digital asset market data provider, to make Bloomberg’s licensed financial data accessible directly within blockchain environments rather than through traditional offchain databases. The companies said Thursday that the initiative is designed to address the challenge of inconsistent data across tokenized markets.  In many tokenized asset ecosystems, companies may rely on different versions of pricing data, security identifiers or reference information, increasing the risk of discrepancies and operational inefficiencies. By enabling a common, licensed data source to be embedded onchain, the collaboration aims to…

Tokenized US Treasury Market Surges by $1B Since Beginning of Year

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The tokenized US Treasury market has surged by over $1 billion since the beginning of 2026, despite macroeconomic uncertainty and concerns over the US government’s growing national debt. Tokenized US Treasurys are government debt instruments that are a form of real-world assets (RWAs) represented onchain by a token. The market capitalization of tokenized Treasurys climbed to more than $10.8 billion at the time of writing from $8.9 billion on Jan. 1, according to data from RWA.xyz. The tokenized US Treasury market has grown to over $10.8 billion. Source: RWA.xyz. The…

WisdomTree Launches 24/7 Trading for Tokenized Treasury Money Market Fund

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US-based asset manager WisdomTree has launched 24/7 trading and instant settlement for the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX), enabling round-the-clock secondary trading of a registered tokenized mutual fund within the US regulatory framework. The company said it is the first time a registered tokenized mutual fund has been allowed to trade and settle around the clock under the Investment Company Act of 1940 using a dealer-principal model. The structure allows shares to settle instantly, giving investors real-time access to yield-bearing US Treasurys exposure. To implement the model, WisdomTree…

Ondo brings tokenized Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla to Binance

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Tokenized US stocks and ETFs from Ondo Finance are now live on Binance, giving hundreds of millions of users access to these assets, the companies announced Tuesday. Jeff Li, Binance’s vice president of product, said in a statement that the listing is part of Binance’s effort to diversify its financial products. “Our users now have even more convenient ways to explore and trade tokenized securities, in line with our mission to offer innovative and accessible trading opportunities,” Li stated. The largest crypto exchange by trading volume wants to make it…

$161B WisdomTree to activate 24/7 trading and instant settlement for tokenized fund shares

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WisdomTree, a New York-listed asset manager overseeing approximately $161 billion in client assets, said Tuesday it will soon enable around-the-clock trading and instant settlement for its US money market fund, the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX). The fund can trade continuously against the USDC stablecoin through a dealer-principal model operated by the firm’s broker-dealer subsidiary. The SEC granted exemptive relief to multiple WisdomTree entities, while FINRA approved the broker-dealer unit to act as principal for trades. The company described the coordinated approval as the most significant structural innovation…

ProShares IQMM Debut Signals Tokenized MMF Growth

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ProShares’ record-breaking debut of its money market exchange-traded fund (ETF) last week underscores the enormous demand for cash-management products at a time when the asset class is increasingly being tokenized — and, as industry proponents argue, the shift could help funds remain competitive amid increasing US stablecoin adoption. Money market funds invest in short-term, high-quality debt instruments such as US Treasury bills, repurchase agreements and commercial paper. They are designed to preserve capital while offering modest yield and daily liquidity, making them a popular cash-management vehicle for investors. That backdrop…