Transaction volume reached $5.3 billion, yet adjusted EBITDA swung to a $5.5 million loss as fewer integrations were completed.
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DeFi recorded 99 hacks in the second quarter of 2026, more than any quarter on record in DeFiLlama's database. Real-world tokenized assets in use inside DeFi protocols have since climbed to nearly $3.97 billion, a fresh all-time high. DeFi gives tokenized assets something to do on-chain, turning them into collateral, lending liquidity, or inputs that […]
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Robinhood's crypto-related transaction revenue in the fourth quarter of 2024 generated $358 million of the company's $672 million in transaction-based revenue, about 53% of the total. That concentration had flipped by the second quarter of 2026, when crypto revenue fell 38% year over year to $100 million and accounted for just 12.9% of transaction-based revenue. […]
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Alpaca says it custodies more than $1.5 billion of shares backing tokenized equities, which, by public tracker measurements, would represent most of the market. With DTCC preparing to launch its own tokenization service in October and the SEC warning that third-party stock tokens can expose investors to additional ownership and intermediary risks, the numbers reveal […]
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DTCC now runs a tokenization trial with roughly 40 firms, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Vanguard and the NYSE, to represent shares and Treasuries on-chain, tokens that become usable collateral only when a lending market can answer who prices them and what happens once the venues behind that price go quiet. DefiLlama puts on-chain RWA […]
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BNB Chain has reached a new high in tokenized real-world assets, with RWA.xyz data showing roughly $5.2 billion in tokenized assets on the network.
Chesky announced no product. His trust thesis points toward regulated financing built on verified bookings, contingent payouts and specialist-held legal claims.
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Tokenized finance becomes much more interesting when it stops being a concept deck and starts looking like fund plumbing. Fidelity’s FILQ integration with Chainlink fits that category. The headline is not just that a la
Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain this month, describing it as a permissionless Layer 2 built on Arbitrum for tokenized stocks, real-world assets, DeFi lending, and AI-native finance. One week in, the chain's loudest retail activity is driven by CASHCAT, a memecoin built on Robinhood's own discarded “CashCat” name. The token reached nearly […]
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RWA.xyz data shows Solana's RWA transfer volume more than doubled over 30 days, shifting the adoption signal from tokenized value to usage quality.
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Solana Hits Record $3.4 Billion in Real-World Asset (RWA) Expansion — what the latest source material shows and why it matters for crypto markets.
Ondo Finance has integrated more than 430 tokenized stocks and ETFs with Uniswap, though access is restricted for US persons.
DeFiLlama shows real activity, but durability depends on redemption, custody, buybacks and CARDS incentives.
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BAGEY turns tokenization into a legal-record test, but transfer, collateral, and custody mechanics still have to prove the model.
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SPCX concentration shows real demand, but redemption, custody, and shareholder expectations still depend on the product.
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Kraken's new facility with Maple brings a traditional warehouse financing model onchain, allowing the exchange to expand its institutional crypto lending business using blockchain-based structured credit.
GIP-87 shows how tokenized lending can shift from yield growth to borrower workouts, legal administration, and governance-funded cleanup.
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The new unit arrives amid rapid growth in tokenized assets, with Franklin Templeton's onchain product suite expanding from roughly $768 million to more than $2.5 billion over the past year.
Bitget has launched Stock+, a crypto-funded product for eligible users to buy real US stocks and ETFs through its Stocks 2.0 ecosystem.
Ledn has added Tether Gold as loan collateral, expanding crypto lending into tokenized gold and real-world asset markets.
24X has filed a proposed SEC rule change that would allow eligible stocks and ETFs to trade in tokenized form through a DTC pilot.
The rollout in collaboration with Ondo Finance broadens access to tokenized traditional assets as demand for onchain stocks and ETFs continues to grow.
Coinbase is preparing an offshore tokenized equities push that would use 1:1 backed stock tokens rather than simple synthetic exposure.
Standard Chartered has reportedly set a long-term $100 target for Uniswap by 2030, tied to rapid growth in tokenized real-world assets.
Despite mixed HYPE derivatives market signals, Hyperliquid’s explosive TradFi perpetual growth makes a push toward $80 increasingly realistic.
DTCC and Stellar are working on a planned tokenization connection, but the integration is not live settlement and should be treated as a future pilot.
Securitize's STAC fund is expanding to Solana while Ethena evaluates a proposed $250 million allocation for stablecoin backing.
Reports citing Standard Chartered research say UNI could reach $100 by 2030, but the forecast should be treated as an analyst projection rather than a public bank announcement.
SpaceX’s blockbuster debut didn’t just mint a trillionaire; it became a real-world stress test for crypto’s promise of democratized market access.
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) drew more new tokenized real-world asset capital than Ethereum, Solana, and other major blockchains over the past three months, giving XRP bulls a fresh network-growth argument as traders rebuild exposure to the token. XRPL recorded $1.9 billion in net real-world asset inflows over the last 90 days, ahead of Ethereum’s $1.6 […]
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