Manifest, a company focused on bringing US private real estate to the blockchain, recently completed a $2.50 million financing round aimed at combining real estate with DeFi. This round of financing was led by VanEck Ventures, with participation from Compound, Lattice Fund and SALT.
Dubai Land Authority (DLD) has announced the launch of a real estate tokenization pilot project, becoming the first real estate registry in the Middle East to use blockchain technology to manage real estate title certificates. The project is jointly developed by the Dubai Land Authority in conjunction with the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) and the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF). The Dubai Land Authority expects that by 2033, the tokenized real estate transaction volume will reach 60 b...
Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, recently said that she hopes to tokenize some of the company's funds once the US regulatory environment allows, and believes that asset tokenization will be an important trend in the future. Wood mentioned Ark's Venture Fund (ARKVX) and Digital Asset Revolution Fund as potential tokenization targets at the Digital Asset Summit in New York. She said: "We think tokenization will be a huge...
ORO, the Solana ecological gold tokenization project, announced the completion of the $1.50 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by 468 Capital, with investors such as Fasset, Dead King Ventures and several angel investors participating. According to reports, ORO aims to expand the real-world assets that generate income on Solana through gold tokenization.
Coinbase is restarting plans to tokenize its COIN shares and other securities in the U.S. after the Securities Exchange Commission formed a new cryptocurrency task force. The plan was first attempted in 2020 but abandoned due to regulatory hurdles. With the SEC's new cryptocurrency task force, the company sees new opportunities to integrate blockchain into traditional finance. Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas at Morgan Stanley TMT.
According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Tether's digital asset tokenization platform Hadron now supports asset tokenization on the Liquid Bitcoin Layer 2 network.
On February 23rd, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Deepening Rural Reform and Solidly Promoting the Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural Areas" proposed to improve the mechanism for the citizenization of agricultural transfer population. Promote transfer payments, new construction land indicators, infrastructure building investment, etc. to be linked to the citizenization of agricultural transfer population. Improve the nati...
The HBAR Foundation has announced an undisclosed investment in the Archax-tokenized Fidelity International Dollar Money Market Fund. The investment follows the recent tokenization of MMFs on the Hedera network by Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, and a distributor of Fidelity International funds. These tokenized shares are available on the Archax platform, allowing investors to gain exposure to assets through a blockchain-powered mechanism.
On February 20, the time tokenization platform Time.fun said on the social platform that it will launch the Solana network on February 24. Previously reported, on November 1, 2024, the Base-based time tokenization platform Time.fun announced its migration to Solana. Time.fun co-founder 0xKawz said, "For the most part, the Ethereum ecosystem is all about technology and self-righteousness. If Ethereum doesn't solve its cultural problems, Solana will dominate as more builders like Time.fun choose t...
According to official news, swarms announced that the beta version of its AI Agent tokenization platform Launchpad has been officially launched. Users can tokenize AI Agents on the platform, and earn profits and SWARMS token rewards by providing high-quality AI Agents.
GD10 Capital announced a strategic investment in EstateX, a tokenized real estate investment platform, for an undisclosed amount. The platform supports individuals to invest in minimum and increased liquidity real estate assets. The new funds are intended to support its construction of the RWA protocol and L1 blockchain that support real estate tokenization.
Toyota Financial plans to issue a yen digital bond in March this year through the Progmat tokenization platform. The total size is 1 billion yen (about 6.60 million US dollars), and the face value of a single 100,000 yen (about 658 US dollars). The issuance is not only one of the few digital bonds issued by Japanese companies, but also specifically for retail investors. It is experimental in nature.
Ondo has developed a new tokenization platform designed to connect U.S. securities such as stocks, bonds and ETFs with blockchain. Investors will be able to access securities on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ). Each token is backed 1:1 to ensure a level of trust and stability.
French fintech company Spiko has deployed its tokenized U.S. and European Union T-Bills money market fund on Arbitrum One to bring institutional-grade investment assets to the L2 blockchain, which is regulated by the European Commission's Collective Investment Scheme for Transferable Securities (UCITS). Two UCITS-compliant investment vehicles with tokenized shares are USTBL and EUTBL.
On January 28, BlackRock-led tokenization platform Securitize announced that Wormhole has been launched as its main interoperability solution. The Wormhole feature will allow funds tokenized on the Securitize platform to be transferred seamlessly and securely between all blockchain networks backed by Securitize, whose clients include Hamilton Lane, KKR and BlackRock. Securitize launched the BlackRock Dollar Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) in March 2024, with total assets under manag...