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Open Standard Group Set to Challenge Circle, Tether in $300 Billion Stablecoin Market
A consortium led by Visa, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, and including more than 140 financial services, e-commerce, technology and DLT players, plans to launch a US Dollar-denominated stablecoin dubbed Open USD later this year. When it goes live, the Open Standard group will challenge existing leaders Circle and Tether, which between them dominate the $300+…
Token Tech: The Evolution and Architectures of Distributed Ledgers
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is an essential ingredient for creating digital assets through tokenisation. Most commonly implemented as a blockchain (a cryptographically linked list of records that Is duplicated and synchronised across a number of network nodes), DLTs securely record and store digital tokens that represent specific assets. Most popularly implemented to support the bitcoin…
Citi’s Research Predicts Massive Digital Asset Market Growth; Provides DLT Implementation Advice
Citi’s June 2026 research report titled Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain makes key predictions on the expected institutional embrace of digital assets over the next five years and offers some best practice advice for those implementing DLT to support tokenisation initiatives. Overall, the report highlights the current initiatives by institutions to move from small pilot projects to…
State Street Launches GENIUS Act Stablecoin Fund
State Street Investment Management has launched the State Street Stablecoin Reserves Money Market Fund, a regulated money market fund designed to support stablecoin issuers. The fund, which complies with the recently introduced GENIUS Act, offers a regulated reserve option for stablecoin issuers. State Street Bank and Anchorage Digital are the first investors in the fund….
EIB Issues Commercial Paper on Clearstream’s D7 DLT; Looks to Hybrid Platform
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has issued the first DLT-native, Euro-denominated commercial paper on Clearstream’s D7 DLT platform. The EUR 77.5 million issuance was made in compliance with Europe’s Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) and involved Citi as sole dealer and issuing/paying agent, as well as BIL, DekaBank, DZ BANK, Eurex Clearing, Union Investment and…
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,…
CFTC’s Selig Sets Out Agenda for Leaner Rules and Faster Markets
Michael Selig has placed derivatives regulation at the centre of the US competitiveness agenda, using his keynote at the ISDA annual meeting to call for a more proportionate rulebook, deeper SEC and CFTC alignment, and a clearer path for innovation in swaps, clearing, tokenised collateral and market structure. He framed the CFTC’s task as keeping…
How Murex and Quant Network are Tackling the Tokenisation Operationalisation Gap
Tokenisation of real-world assets has crossed the $100 billion mark. DTCC has received SEC approval to tokenise real-world assets from mid-2026. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and JPMorgan have live tokenised funds. The New York Stock Exchange is developing a blockchain-based venue for 24/7 trading of tokenised securities. And in the UK, a consortium of six major…
Nasdaq Positions Calypso as the Institutional Bridge for On-Chain/Off-Chain Collateral Convergence
Nasdaq is building a modular infrastructure ecosystem around its Calypso platform, positioning it as the institutional bridge between traditional and digital asset collateral workflows. A partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Talos, announced in March, is the most recent in a sequence of coordinated initiatives – including a live integration with the Canton network and…
SEC Launches Crypto Task Force to Provide Clarity on Regulatory Framework
Acting U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mark T. Uyeda has launched a new crypto task force aimed at establishing a comprehensive and transparent regulatory framework for digital assets. Commissioner Hester Peirce will lead the initiative, with Richard Gabbert, Senior Advisor to the Acting Chairman serving as the task force Chief of Staff, and…