DeFi giant MakerDAO has lent $1.8 million of DAI stablecoin to the tokenized credit pool under distress.
How Is Tokenization Impacting Investing?
Decentral Park’s Kelly Ye provides an overview of what tokenization is and how will it affect the investment landscape.
Tokenization News Roundup: Pendulum Swings Toward Doubters
In recent weeks, the buzz around the emerging tool of tokenizing real-world assets has been on how it will grow to achieve the $16 trillion-by-2030 potential that the Boston Consulting Group predicted last year. Inevitably, criticism intrudes, and this week there is sober opinion, caution and skepticism in the zeitgeist.
Maple Finance’s Tokenized Treasuries Available to U.S. Investors After Securities Exemption
The platform’s cash management facility has grown to $22 million in assets under management since opened in April.
Asset Tokenization in Europe Gets a Boost With Securitize’s Landmark Tokenized Equity Issuance
The firm started issuing tokens representing equity in a Spanish real estate investment trust under Spain’s new digital asset supervision.
Avalanche Foundation Commits $50M to Bring More Tokenized Assets to Blockchain
The program follows Avalanche’s initiative to financial institutions to test blockchain services on one of its subnets.
Tokenization News Roundup: Real-World Assets Come to Blockchains
A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.
MakerDAO Votes to Halt Lending to Tokenized Credit Pool After $2M Loan Default
The embattled Harbour Trade credit pool minted $1.5 million of DAI stablecoin secured with loans to a consumer electronics firm, which defaulted on $2.1 million of debt.
Real-World Asset Platform Ondo Finance Expands Tokenized Treasurys to Polygon
Ondo’s OUSG token, one of the largest on-chain tokenized Treasury products, has accrued $134 million of assets under management on Ethereum.
Tokenized U.S. Treasurys Surpass $600M as Crypto Investors Capture TradFi Yield
Crypto investors now effectively lend $614 million to the U.S. government via different tokenized Treasury products, according to real-world asset data firm RWA.xyz.
Index Coop Aims to Improve Limitations of Protocol, On-Chain Structured Products
The infrastructure limitations of this sector include a lack of cross-chain asset support, expense in maintaining products due to high issuance costs and difficulty rebalancing on-chain products due to slippage.
U.S. Banking Watchdog Makes Case for Tokenization, Just Not on Public Blockchains
Self-styled crypto skeptic Michael Hsu, the acting head of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), said tokenization of assets is a serious advance into the future of finance, but decentralized blockchains may be too problematic to handle that movement.
Crypto Investing Platform Finblox Starts Offering Tokenized Treasury Yield With OpenEden
Demand for tokenized versions of short-term U.S. government bonds has been increasing as crypto investors turn to real-world assets to earn returns on their investments.
For Financial Advisors, Real World Assets Could Be a Safe(r) Path to Crypto
Financial Advisors should consider Real World Assets (RWA) as a way to approach the digital asset sector, minus most of the volatility.
Demand for Tokenized Treasury Bonds Soars as Crypto Investors Chase TradFi Yield
The combined market capitalization of tokenized money market funds is nearing $500 million as high yields in traditional markets attract crypto capital.
In the ‘Stablecoin Olympics,’ No Winner Will Take All
Nigeria’s SEC Mulls Allowing Tokenized Equity, Property But Not Crypto: Bloomberg
The regulator is considering applications for digital asset exchanges on a trial basis.
Tokenization of Real World Assets ‘Changes How Value Is Transferred’
Tokenization has been around for a while, but panelists at CoinDesk Consensus discussed how it changes the game.
Crypto Trading Legend’s Next Move Is Bringing U.S. Treasurys to Crypto, With Plans for Corporate Bonds, Too
Crypto Lender Maple Finance Opens U.S. Treasury Bill Pool for Cash Management
Maple’s new lending pool offers accredited investors, crypto firms and DAO treasuries a way to earn yield on their idle stablecoin holdings by investing in one-month U.S. Treasury bills.