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Ripple and BNY Expand Partnership to New Blockchain Use Cases, Including Tokenised Trade Finance
Ripple and BNY have expanded their strategic partnership to broaden institutional digital asset custody capabilities and explore new blockchain use cases, including tokenised trade finance. Building on BNY’s existing role as the primary reserve custodian for Ripple’s stablecoin (RLUSD), BNY’s Digital Asset Custody platform now supports both XRP and RLUSD. This integration allows eligible institutional…
AWS Blog Post Documents Digital Assets CEX Reference Architecture
A blog post authored by three Amazon Web Services technologists documents a reference architecture for a centralised exchange (CEX) for digital assets. The blog post, titled “Build a digital assets exchange on AWS: A reference architecture“ notes that the reference architecture “aggregates the architectural decisions that recurred across CEX deployments that AWS Solutions Architects have…
Chainlink’s CustodySync Boosts TradFi Custody with DeFi Lending
Chainlink Labs has launched Chainlink CustodySync to synchronise regulated digital asset custodians with decentralised finance (DeFi) lending markets. The platform aims to bridge the gap between approximately $700 billion in digital assets held under custody and the more than $80 billion available in DeFi deposits, allowing institutions to access on-chain liquidity without moving assets out…
Layer-1 Blockchain Projects Respond to SEC’s Proposed “Crypto Assets” Regulation
A group of major Layer-1 blockchain projects has formally urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explicitly codify a “digital commodity” classification within its proposed regulatory framework. In a joint comment letter addressed to SEC Secretary Vanessa A. Countryman, six prominent industry participants requested key modifications to the agency’s proposed “Regulation Crypto Assets”…
Texture, Obsidian Announce Tradecraft ATS on Canton Network
Broker-dealer Texture Capital and financial systems developer Obsidian Systems have announced the development of Tradecraft ATS, which is set to become the first US-regulated trading platform for tokenised securities built on the Canton Network. While Canton already supports asset issuance and settlement, this new venture introduces a fully regulated venue specifically designed for trading. Tradecraft…
Archax Taps Chainlink Data to Unlock $GOVY for Collateral, Margins, Trading
Regulated digital asset platform Archax has chosen popular oracle provider Chainlink to unlock increased utility for $GOVY, its tokenised US Treasury product. Using Chainlink Data Streams, Archax will have the data needed to fully enable features like on-chain lending, collateral and treasury-management applications for banks, asset managers, and DeFi users. $GOVY alleviates the operational friction associated…
J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys Expands JPM Coin to Ethereum
J.P. Morgan has officially launched its JPM Coin on Ethereum , expanding the availability of its digital cash solution to the world’s largest Layer 1 public blockchain network. The expansion is spearheaded by Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, the banking giant’s dedicated blockchain business unit, and T=the move aims to provide institutional clients with broader, native on-chain cash liquidity that…
DTCC Whispers Availability of Production Tokenisation Service, Outlines 2027 Roadmap
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will this month launch its highly anticipated DTCC Tokenization Service, introducing on-chain capabilities to an asset pool valued at approximately $30 trillion. According to an update shared via X on 16th October, the initiative will debut with 25 initial securities available for tokenisation, each backed 1:1 by traditional…
Recorded Webinar: Modernising Equities Trading Infrastructure: Architecture, Resilience and the Economics of Change
Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many of the platforms that still underpin the equities industry were built for a different era –…
OKX Raises Funding at $25 Billion Valuation
Digital assets exchange OKX has raised new funding at a $25 billion valuation from stablecoin issuer Circle, payments service Ripple and Standard Chartered’s investment arm, SC Ventures. “Through strategic investment and partnership, OKX is aligning some of the most critical builders of financial infrastructure behind its vision for the next generation of on-chain markets,” OKX…