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Welcome to Digital Assets & Tokenisation Insight: Tracking the Rise of Programmable Assets, DLT and Wall Street 2.0
The infrastructure that underpins today’s institutional financial markets is being rewired to support instantaneous transactions, always-on operation, hacker-proof privacy, and drastically reduced costs. Platform upgrades that leverage distributed ledger technology (DLT – including blockchain networks, smart contracts and cryptographic proofs), asset programmability via tokenisation, peer-to-peer transactions, and decentralised data, are being implemented to boost functionality,…
Clearstream Unveils Next-Generation Hybrid Digital Securities Infrastructure
Clearstream, the post-trade business of Deutsche Börse Group, has announced a next-generation digital securities infrastructure designed to integrate traditional and tokenised asset markets. The hybrid platform will enable market participants to combine traditional securities, digital assets, and various cash forms within a single portfolio. Operating across Europe and connecting 60 global markets, the initiative aims…
Guide to Prediction Market Technology: Building the Next Generation of Event-Based Exchanges
Following the momentum and buzz surrounding prediction markets during the 2024 US elections, event-based trading has rapidly emerged as one of the most dynamic growth areas in capital markets. What was once considered a niche segment has evolved into a global opportunity, attracting established exchanges, everyday participants, fintech innovators, and entrepreneurs seeking to launch new…
Gold-i Expands DeFi Access with Derive.xyz Integration on MatrixNET
Trading technology provider Gold-i has integrated Derive.xyz, the largest on-chain options exchange, into its multi-asset liquidity management and distribution platform, MatrixNET. The move marks Gold-i’s second decentralised finance (DeFi) integration, following its recent partnership with the perpetual futures and spot trading platform Hyperliquid. The integration enables Gold-i’s institutional client base—including brokers, proprietary trading firms, and…
Kaiko Buys Amberdata as Digital Asset Data Consolidation Picks Up Pace
Kaiko has acquired Amberdata, its fifth acquisition and its second in a fortnight, in a deal that points less to any single transaction than to the speed at which the institutional digital asset data layer is consolidating into a small number of scaled providers. The Paris-headquartered firm announced the purchase of the US-based data and…
DTCC and Stellar Development Foundation Partner to Tokenize Real-World Assets
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have announced a partnership to enable the tokenization of assets custodied by The Depository Trust Company (DTC) on the Stellar network. This collaboration follows an SEC No-Action Letter received in December 2025, which authorized DTC to implement a new service for digital…
Virtex Partners with Gold-i as TradFi and DeFi Brokerage Stacks Converge
Virtex Technologies, a year-old London-based vendor positioning itself as an “operating system for digital asset brokerages”, has selected Gold-i, an established FX and crypto connectivity firm, as its first integration partner. The pairing connects Virtex’s front-end and brokerage workflow platform to Gold-i’s MatrixNET liquidity management layer, giving clients single-point access to more than 35 crypto…
FIX Trading Community Releases Free ‘Blockchain Basics’ Manual for Finance Professionals
The FIX Trading Community has launched “Blockchain Basics”, a comprehensive, vendor-neutral manual designed to help finance professionals integrate digital assets and blockchain technology into traditional systems. Developed in partnership with QUBIC Labs, the guide bridges the gap between decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi) by covering core concepts, regulatory contexts, tokenisation, and workflow impacts….
Where Tokenisation Actually Delivers Value: The Question the Institutional Market Still Can’t agree On
At a panel session on the convergence of traditional and digital market infrastructure at A-Team Group’s inaugural ExchangeTech Summit in London earlier this month, an audience poll set the framing for the discussion that followed. Asked where their firm sat today on tokenisation and DLT-based market infrastructure, the largest single response from a room of…
DTCC Quantifies the Capital Case for Tokenised Collateral as AppChain Nears Q4 Launch
DTCC’s new research paper on tokenised collateral, published this week with consultancy Finadium, arrives as the business-case companion to a product rollout already well under way. A day earlier, DTCC confirmed that Chainlink’s Runtime Environment would provide the data and orchestration layer for its forthcoming Collateral AppChain. The paper now supplies the balance-sheet case institutions…