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Goldman Sachs Was a Holdout in August. It Just Turned Up as a Founding Member of a 21-Bank Stablecoin Company.
In June we told you the big banks picked tokenized deposits over stablecoins. This says they picked both, and that changes who loses.
Coinbase Put Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and Alphabet on Base. The Tokens Aren't the Story.
A tokenized stock stopped being a picture of a share and started behaving like a blockchain asset — with an Abu Dhabi trust underneath it, an oracle that turns dividends into arithmetic, and a lending market switched on before the opening bell.
The SEC Just Wrote Its Own Crypto Rulebook While Congress Was Out of Town. It Leaves Out Congress's Insider Lockup.
Regulation Crypto Assets and the CLARITY Act answer the same question about insider token sales two different ways. If the bill dies in September, only the regulators' answer survives.
Wells Fargo Is Launching Tokenized Deposits. The Stablecoin War Just Became a Race Between Trust and Portability.
Stablecoins solved portability before they solved institutional trust. Banks already have the trust. Now they are trying to buy the portability.
BlackRock Is Bringing a $311 Billion Cash Business Onchain. The Real Prize Is Stablecoins.
When the world's largest asset manager tokenizes institutional cash, it's a distribution play dressed as innovation.
JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo Are Merging Their Blockchain Deposit Projects Into One Network. Here's Why It Matters.
Four of America's largest banks are building a shared tokenized deposit system through The Clearing House. Real money is already moving.
Japan's AZ-COM Maruwa Is Moving 2,300 Logistics Partners onto a Yen Stablecoin. Here's Why a Tokyo-Listed Company Is Settling With Its Drivers in JPYC.
A regulated corporate stablecoin rollout in Japan shows how legal clarity enables real-world adoption faster than hype.
DTCC Just Tokenized Real Stock and Treasury Bonds in Live Production. JPMorgan, Vanguard, and BlackRock Are Trading Them Now.
The company that settles $4 quadrillion a year just stopped testing and started running tokenized securities with more than 30 firms.
Six markets, one question, one screen
I set out to trade the disagreements between them. The map I had to build first turned out to be the more valuable thing, so I am giving it away, free.
SWIFT Just Put 17 Banks on a Shared Blockchain Ledger. Here's Why Citi and HSBC Signed On.
The messaging giant went live with tokenized deposits and weekend transfers. Final settlement still hits the old rails.
The First Tokenization Company Just Listed on the NYSE. Wall Street May Never Go Back.
BlackRock-backed Securitize went public and tokenized its own stock on day one. The NYSE just got its first RWA rails.
Intercontinental Exchange and OKX Just Built a Regulated Bridge Between Wall Street and Crypto. Andrew Cuomo Is Co-Chairing It.
The NYSE parent and one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges are tokenizing equities and futures under U.S. regulation. Here’s what just changed.
A Blockchain Alternative to SWIFT Just Settled $69 Billion. Investors Should Pay Attention.
The first large-scale CBDC settlement network is moving from pilot to commercialization, and it arrives exactly as the U.S. is betting on stablecoins.
Scotland's Fans Drank Boston Dry.
The Token Meant for Them Reached 183 Wallets.
Crypto Exchanges Just Launched Nasdaq-Style Stock Trading. Here’s Why Robinhood and Schwab Are Next.
Binance, Kraken, and Bybit are now selling U.S. equities alongside Bitcoin. The brokerage war you didn’t see coming has started.
Our Equity Left The Page...
Old Men, New Money's Cap table is now on-chain. Your company's can be too.
JPMorgan, BofA, Citi, and Wells Are Building Their Own Stablecoin to Fight Tether.
Here's What's Actually Happening.
Bothy: A Pass, Not a Password
Give your people a private spot, and a membership that can't leak.
We Picked a Sponsor. Here's Why It's The Bridge.
The deeper-dive newsletter we'd read anyway, now at an OMNM price.
Paxos Just Won the Race to Run Wall Street Settlement on Blockchain. Here's What the SEC Just Approved.
The first blockchain clearing agency is now approved. T+0 settlement just became structurally possible.
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