Tokenization Shifts From Issuance to DeFi Collateral
Tokenization's value is shifting from distribution to programmable collateral, and the design work around each token is what makes that layer safe to use.
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Tokenization's value is shifting from distribution to programmable collateral, and the design work around each token is what makes that layer safe to use.
The pitch is plumbing, not spectacle. Tokenizing short-term Treasuries for use as margin collateral is the most boring and most scalable piece of institutional plumbing the sector needs next.
The SEC's Reg Crypto Assets proposal, the CLARITY Act push, and a FASB stablecoin-cash project all landed in one week, but Hougan says Bitcoin ETFs took 2.5 years to go from legal to genuinely…
The trade-off makes interoperability and liquidity aggregation central to whether a multichain market for real-world assets can scale.
The gap between Securitize's record AUM and falling revenue is the structural question every RWA platform now faces: can the next billion in on-chain assets become recurring infrastructure revenue,…
Matt Hougan's thesis rests on an addressable market $500T deep: tokenized stocks, bonds and real estate running on chains that today only clear roughly $2T of crypto volume.
The investable question is whether brokers and asset managers turn on-chain ownership into widely used products, not merely a new trading narrative.
Robinhood has already tokenized 190+ U.S. equities for users in 120+ countries; American investors are still on the outside.
First time Neuberger is a subadvisor to a tokenized fund, deployed across Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Sui, and Securitize itself just cleared SEC RIA status.
The proposal could lower market-structure costs while giving tokenized securities and public-blockchain execution a clearer regulatory path.
The concentration makes independent buyer appetite the key test for Solana's push into tokenized insurance and structured credit.
Two trillion-dollar firms greenlit crypto during a bear market, framed by Bitwise's Horsley and Sygnum's Dori as a structural shift, not a cyclical bid.
The dollar damage was contained, but the delay hits DeFi venues and the CLARITY Act timeline together, stretching the U.S.
Stock at $24.63 trades below its $37 IPO and a fraction of last year's $74 peak, even as the company bets $4.2B on Equiniti to anchor a tokenized-securities pivot.
The delay highlights how RWA products remain exposed to the physical project and geopolitical conditions behind them, as WLFI explores oil and gas beyond real estate.
The repeated delay keeps tokenized offerings and crypto issuers in regulatory limbo, extending uncertainty over how compliant fundraising could proceed under SEC rules.
The delay keeps the US path for tokenized real-world assets unsettled while the Clarity Act's tokenization provisions remain in flux.
The second delay in a year for a tokenization framework Wall Street is already piloting in production, leaving a multitrillion-dollar pipeline on hold while Congress negotiates the Digital Asset…
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan frames the move as merit-driven, not FOMO: wealth managers discussing 2-4% crypto allocations are the next marginal buyer, not retail.
The quarter puts Figure's blockchain lending model at a larger operating scale, with 489 loan-origination partners and a Q3 marketplace volume forecast of $4.8B to $5.2B.