Tokenized Asset Holders Jump 117% to Reach 2.6M
Crypto exchanges are moving deeper into TradFi trading as a larger holder base turns tokenization into a contest for distribution and market access.
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Crypto exchanges are moving deeper into TradFi trading as a larger holder base turns tokenization into a contest for distribution and market access.
The October forecast puts TradFi adoption at the center of a possible Bitcoin-altcoin split.
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 banking lobby's last-ditch fight over stablecoin yields mirrors the early-80s money market war it lost.
The dollar damage was contained, but the delay hits DeFi venues and the CLARITY Act timeline together, stretching the U.S.
USYC at $3B, BUIDL at $2.7B and USDY at $2.1B aren't the story; the $15.3B total is the line that turns tokenized Treasuries from experiment into venue.
The custody and admin backbone of US pension and wealth-manager money is going on-chain, the strongest single TradFi adoption signal since BlackRock's spot BTC ETF.
The product lands at a moment retail single-name leverage is migrating off broker margin and onto centrally cleared venues, with implications for both equity vol and crypto perp-style flows.
Fidelity, BlackRock, Schwab and Goldman now back a bill they once avoided, but the obstacle isn't crypto skeptics, it's Trump's own grifts, and failure pushes US market-structure rules into the 2030s.
TD Cowen reads LSE 24 as more than extended hours: the new overnight venue is wired into LSEG's Digital Securities Depository and built for agent-based AI trading, not just retail after-hours.
The push lands squarely on the competitive fault line TradFi is rushing to close: crypto venues already trade 24/7, and the LSE wants a piece of that volume rather than watch it leak.
The 300-year-old exchange is finally responding to the structural pressure crypto venues have been applying to retail brokerage flows for half a decade, with an extended-hours rollout targeted at H1…
The 322-year-old exchange is rewriting the rules of a market that closes at 4:30 p.m. London time, betting that round-the-clock access is now table stakes for capital.
The brokerage-backed L2 lands with Alchemy, Chainlink, and LayerZero already wired in, framing the launch as a TradFi bridge rather than a generic EVM clone.
Two senior appointments, one spanning stablecoins and custody, the other AI across global markets, signal BoA's intent to operationalize the convergence rather than just talk about it.
Ken Griffin's hedge fund is backing two competing venues as tokenized stocks and commodities become the new distribution layer for traditional assets.
Citadel Securities's first move into Crypto.com mirrors its $200M Kraken bet from five months ago, a dual signal that institutional capital is now underwriting the top venues at scale.
Larry Fink frames wallet-side access to stocks and bonds as the next institutional on-ramp, weeks after BlackRock's crypto funds shed roughly $30B in value and raked in $82M in fees.
The $300B+ Nasdaq-100 ETF becomes the largest TradFi fund to issue a tokenized share class, deepening Wall Street's conviction that onchain rails belong in mainstream portfolio plumbing.
The partnership targets primary issuance rather than wrapped exposure, putting tokenization inside the IPO process itself as DTCC, JPMorgan, Goldman and BlackRock push the same direction.