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Robinhood Chain Launches with Dedicated Public Trading Pool
The Public Mainnet of Robinhood Chain has officially launched, creating a new institutional-grade Layer 2 blockchain built on the Arbitrum platform. The new chain connects directly to Robinhood’s base of onchain users and features tools for lending and borrowing. Focused on real-world assets, it offers application developers fast transaction speeds and was built with technology…
Bloomberg Taps Kaiko to Add Broadridge’s Onchain Data to its Terminal
Bloomberg has added Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform data to its Terminal, marking the first time the service has included live data from a blockchain-native fixed income market. Distributed through Kaiko’s regulated data infrastructure, Bloomberg now publishes daily repo par value, turnover, and trade count alongside traditional fixed income data. This development is a…
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…
Chainlink’s DLT-Based Project Pangea Tackles T+0 FX Settlement
Oracle provider Chainlink’s Project Pangea has assembled 50+ banks across 16 countries to bring DLT-powered real-time atomic settlement to the $9.6 trillion per day foreign exchange market. The project’s bank partners include members of three European and Korean consortia, while the technology base comprises Chainlink’s CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol), Swift’s ISO 20022 messaging service and…
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,…
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…
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…