Real World Assets


Finance

Crypto for Advisors: Tokenization of Real World Assets

Real World Assets could help stabilize crypto volatility impacts on performance while streamlining portfolio management.

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Finance

The Middleman’s Shadow in the Tokenization Complex

In the world of crypto, digital assets, and the dream of decentralization, the middleman is a figure of scorn. We speak of peer-to-peer networks with no need for gatekeepers. Yet, whether we like it or not, intermediaries haunt every corner of this landscape, says Fadi Aboualfa, head of research, Copper.co.

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Finance

Tokenized RWA Platform Huma Finance Gets $38M Investment, Plans Expansion to Solana and Stellar’s Soroban

Huma's payment-finance platform aims to address the liquidity needs of trade financing using blockchain technology for faster settlement.

Founders of Huma Finance and Arf (PRNewsfoto/Huma Finance, Arf)

Finance

Tether's $100M Investment in LatAm Agriculture Firm May Be a Tokenization Play

Adecoagro is a founder and partial owner in an Argentina-based agricultural commodities tokenization platform Agrotoken.

Tether already holds a minority stake in the agricultural commodities producer. (Unsplash/Getty Images)

Finance

Siemens Issues $330M Digital Bond on Private Blockchain with Major German Banks Including Deutsche Bank

The issuance was the company's first digital bond with fully automated settlement, building on last year's issuance on the Polygon network.

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Finance

Brevan Howard-Backed Tokenization Firm Libre Arrives on NEAR Blockchain

NEAR Protocol’s cross-chain signing feature will allow users on multiple blockchains to transact with Libre’s selection of tokenized credit and hedge funds.

Libre CEO Avtar Sehra (Libre)

Finance

Tokenization Pioneer Centrifuge Unveils Lending Market With Morpho, Coinbase

The institutional real-world asset lending market combines Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, and Morpho Vaults using three varieties of tokenized Treasury bills.

Lucas Vogelsang (left) and Base creator Jesse Pollak at the 2023 RWA Summit in New York City. (Centrifuge)

Markets

Tokenized Treasury Funds Pass $2B Market Cap Amid BlackRock’s Explosive Growth

BlackRock's BUIDL has quickly topped $500 million in market cap.

Tokenized Treasury funds passed $2 billion in market cap on Saturday. (Source: RWA.xyz)

Finance

Tokenized Asset Issuer Backed to Offer Crypto RWAs in LatAm With eNor Securities

ENor Securities, an exchange based in El Salvador, will offer Backed’s bTokens to retail investors in Latin America.

Latin America (Leon Overwheel/Unsplash)

Finance

German State-Owned Development Bank Prepares for Tokenized Bond Issuance with Boerse Stuttgart Digital in ECB Trial

Traditional finance institutions are increasingly exploring ways of putting assets like bonds, credit and funds on blockchain rails, known as RWA tokenization, to pursue operational benefits.

Frankfurt, Germany (Sinan Erg/Unsplash)