Key Highlights French fintech startup Spiko is expanding its tokenized cash fund operations to London following regulatory registration with the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Founded in June 2023 by former French Treasury official Paul-Adrien Hyppolite, Spiko manages the flagship SAFO tokenized cash fund launched in collaboration with BNP Paribas and Amundi. Spiko’s leadership sees ...
Key Highlights: Aptos features institutional integrations including BlackRock’s BUIDL, Franklin Templeton’s BENJI, and Aave’s first non-EVM deployment supporting USDC and USDT. Despite stablecoin capitalization falling from an October 2025 peak of $1.49 billion to approximately $773 million by early November 2026, cross-border payment partnerships with Bitso and Yellow Card drove over $15 billion in 30-day ...
Key Highlights: Schroders has launched its first tokenized product on the Solana blockchain through a feeder fund providing exposure to its Emerging Market Bond Fund. Centrifuge serves as the infrastructure provider, enabling the issuance and management of the onchain share class for the feeder fund. The move reflects a growing institutional push to expand onchain ...
Key Highlights: Conventional tokenization metrics—such as total value locked and chain-specific growth—fail to reflect an asset’s real utility or value to institutional balance sheets. Total value figures obscure who captures the underlying yield, conflating issuer-benefiting assets like stablecoins with holder-yielding products such as tokenized funds. A newly proposed evaluation framework introduces five specific utility metrics: ...
Key Highlights Global asset manager Janus Henderson is advancing an initiative to introduce tokenized fund products using blockchain technology. The strategy seeks to lower barriers to entry, providing broader investor accessibility and enhanced liquidity for institutional-grade funds. Market observers anticipate that Janus Henderson’s expansion could prompt competing institutional asset managers to roll out similar real-world ...
Key Highlights: Ethereum accounts for a dominant 47.1% share of the on-chain market capitalization across tokenized funds. A cumulative total of $34.2 billion in tokenized funds is now distributed across 33 different blockchain networks. Ethereum’s smart contract infrastructure continues to position the decentralized platform as the premier ecosystem for digital asset adoption. Ethereum Commands Major ...
Key Highlights Franklin Templeton executed two major share issuances on the XRP Ledger, minting more than 72.18 million shares per transaction at a price of $1.039 per share. While data provider RWA.xyz tracked Franklin’s position on the network at approximately $193 million based on a baseline $1 valuation, the recorded transaction share price elevates the ...
Key Highlights Pantera Capital has led a Series A funding round for Fission, a platform designed to unlock secondary liquidity for tokenized funds. Fission enables eligible holders of private credit, alternatives, and institutional funds to access capital outside traditional, rigid fund redemption cycles. The platform has already processed millions of dollars in transaction volume and ...
Key Highlights Global asset manager Franklin Templeton is driving institutional interest in the digital asset sector through ongoing tokenization initiatives. The integration of traditional investment products like mutual funds and ETFs onto blockchain networks aims to unlock enhanced market liquidity. Market participants are advised to track institutional expansion and upcoming regulatory developments that will shape ...
Key Highlights: Federated Hermes has partnered with digital asset firm Prometheum to distribute tokenized investment products across traditional brokerage networks. Prometheum subsidiaries ProFinancial and Prometheum Capital will facilitate distribution, custody, clearing, and settlement for introducing brokers and clients. The initiative seeks to integrate blockchain-based funds, including money market vehicles, directly into standard brokerage accounts and ...
Key Highlights: Bitfinex Securities is offering two tokenized funds co-founded by CMCC Global and Willy Woo: the dollar-benchmarked Crest Fund and the Bitcoin-benchmarked LBAF. Tokens are priced at $10 for CREST and 0.0001 BTC for LBAF, featuring a six-month promotional window with 50% reduced performance fees and waived redemption fees. Tokenization infrastructure is powered by ...
Key Highlights: CMCC Global and Bitcoin analyst Willy Woo have partnered to list tokenized versions of the Crest and LBAF quantitative investment funds on Bitfinex Securities. Crest operates as a dollar-denominated fund outperforming U.S. Treasury bills, while LBAF targets an annualized net yield of 8% to 12% denominated directly in Bitcoin. Both offerings leverage Tether’s ...