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Ondo Finance Launches Decentralised Ondo Network Running Perpetual Futures Trading; Rethinks Blockchain Technology to Achieve Execution Speed and Privacy
Ondo Finance – which operates an institutional financial transaction platform for tokenised assets – has introduced the Ondo Network, a privacy-first decentralised platform that is already powering Ondo Perps, a high-performance perpetual futures offering. In doing so, Ondo notes that its original plan to build on blockchain technology – dubbed Ondo Chain – needed a...
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BitGo and OTC Markets Forming Strategic Alliance to Link Digital Asset Trading and Custody
Digital asset infrastructure provider BitGo and financial markets operator OTC Markets Group are forming a strategic alliance focused on bringing digital asset trading and custody infrastructure to broker-dealers utilising OTC Link ATS, OTC Markets’ SEC-regulated ATS. The alliance is intended to support a range of digital asset securities, and as regulatory frameworks mature, allow broker-dealers...
Uniswap Launches Permissioned Pools Allowing Regulated TradFi Firms to Trade on DeFi Rails
Leading decentralised exchange (DEX) Uniswap has introduced Permissioned Pools bringing on-chain compliance to its permissionless DeFi network. Built in collaboration with Securitize and Superstate, Permissioned Pools leverages the open-source DS Tokens standard that builds compliance functionality into a token’s smart contract code – allowing regulated institutions to take advantage of Uniswap’s decentralised model. The creation...
Trading Up: Helping Our Youngsters Get What We Do
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the...
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Kraken-parent Payward Acquires Magic Labs’ Embedded Wallet Business
Payward, the parent company of digital asset exchange Kraken, has acquired Magic Labs’ embedded wallet business and its 60 million non-custodial wallets. As financial services shift toward digital assets, wallets have become a primary gateway for retail and institutional products. They serve as the principal touchpoint where human users – and autonomous AI agents –…
Circle Acquires IBM’s Blockchain Patents to Build the Internet Financial System
Best known for its USDC stablecoin, financial platform operator Circle has acquired IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio, comprising more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents worldwide. The patents relate to foundational blockchain technology, banking, financial services, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply chain verification and secure cloud operations. Circle says the acquisition directly supports Circle’s…
Visa Launches Platform for Stablecoins; Predicts They Will Power Agentic Micro-Commerce
Visa has launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform, an enterprise initiative that will bring stablecoin services to more than 200 million Visa-affiliated merchants. The platform, which is currently available to select beta users, initially supports Circle’s USDC and Paxos’ USDG stablecoins. In the future it will also work with the planned Open USD stablecoin from the Open…
US and UK Governments Establish Shared Regulatory Principles for Stablecoins and Tokenised Assets
The US and UK Governments have issued a joint statement establishing shared regulatory principles for stablecoins and tokenized assets, aiming to align frameworks for cross-border access while retaining individual legal requirements. According to the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future, the guidelines advocate for 1:1 backing of stablecoins with high-quality liquid assets, timely redemption…
BridgePort Pilots Digital Asset Master Agreement to Streamline Off-Exchange Settlement Onboarding
Institutional digital-asset firms may be able to trade without placing assets directly on an exchange, but establishing the legal relationships behind that model can remain a lengthy process. BridgePort is seeking to reduce that friction with a common contractual framework for off-exchange settlement arrangements involving trading firms, custodians and execution venues. The company is piloting…
Muriel Siebert Selects tZERO for Tokenised Securities
Muriel Siebert & Co. has selected tZERO to provide the digital securities infrastructure for its new asset tokenisation business. Siebert, which manages some $20 billion in assets, is deploying tZERO’s technology stack to support its expansion into DLT-based investments. The platform will handle the entire lifecycle of Siebert’s digital assets, covering investor onboarding, compliance, custody,…
Circle Set to Diversify Services via Trust Bank
Circle, the issuer of the world’s largest regulated stablecoin – USDC – has received approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., a national trust bank. The bank will operate under the name Circle National Trust. Via its trust bank, Circle will be…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Consensys Suspends Metamask Releases Due to Contractor’s North Korea Links
Ethereum specialist Consensys suspended releases of its popular MetaMask wallet earlier this year after determining that a contractor with links to North Korea had access to its code for about a month. The unnamed contractor, who worked via a third-party service provider, was determined to have made contributions to MetaMask-related code. Consensys – which reported…
Bank of America Appoints Sonali Theisen to Head its Digital Assets Platform
Band of America has named Sonali Theisen ?as ?head of its global digital assets platform. Based in New York City, she will combine her new role, which is to “oversee design, development, scaling and governance of the bank’s digital-assets platform,” with her current responsibilities as head ?of ?Global Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities E?trading and…
Broadridge Taps Mark Nichols as Co-President of Digital Assets
Broadridge Financial Solutions has recruited Mark Nichols to be Co-President of its Digital Assets business unit. Nichols, who joints from EY where he was a Partner, will lead Broadridge’s strategy, product development, and execution in the tokenisation and digital asset arena. He will work alongside Co-President German Soto, who adds the Co-President title to his Chief Product Officer role….
Ethereum Foundation Sheds Staff, Researchers Depart to Launch Ethlab
The Ethereum Foundation is cutting approximately 20% of its staff in a reorganisation that will reduce its operating budget by 40% and slow a drain on its treasury funds. The resulting organization will focus on enterprise engagement, financial infrastructure and policy coordination, as well as continuing work on censorship resistance and self-sovereign architecture. Meanwhile, five…
DTCC Expands Board with Senior Market Structure, Treasury and Operations Leaders
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed four senior financial services executives to its Board of Directors, reinforcing governance oversight across market infrastructure, risk, and post-trade operations. The new appointees – Roland Chai (Nasdaq), Massimiliano Ciardi (Citadel), Stephen Hood (Marex), and Georges Lauchard (Barclays) – bring experience spanning exchange operations, treasury and funding,…
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Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2024
Despite the setback of the FTX collapse, institutional interest in digital assets has grown markedly in the past 12 months, with firms of all sizes now acknowledging participation in some form. While as recently as a year ago, institutional trading firms were taking a cautious stance toward their use, the acceptance of tokenisation, stablecoins, and…
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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...
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