By The Same Token: ECB backs euro stablecoins for payments
The Situation Deutsche Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel publicly endorsed euro-denominated stablecoins as a payments instrument, framing them as a...
By The Same Token: Sanctioned stablecoin issuer races to scale
The Situation A U.S.-sanctioned stablecoin issuer is attempting to scale into a “crypto giant” by expanding distribution and liquidity pathways despite being...
By The Same Token: Russia greenlights RWA tokenization framework
The Situation Russia has approved a national framework to tokenize real-world assets—explicitly including property and shares—via a plan developed by the...
By The Same Token: Figure launches on-chain equity trading
The Situation Figure has launched a proposed secondary offering of up to 4.23M shares of its Series A Blockchain Common Stock—a deliberately structured test...
By The Same Token: LSEG builds blockchain-ready settlement platform
The Situation LSEG has announced it will build an on-chain settlement service for institutional investors, the LSEG Digital Securities Depository, designed...
By The Same Token: BlackRock lists BUIDL on Uniswap
The Situation BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund BUIDL has been made tradable via Uniswap, through a partnership between Uniswap Labs and Securitize...
By The Same Token: UK taps HSBC for digital bond pilot
The Situation The UK Treasury has tapped HSBC (and law firm Ashurst) to run a digital gilt pilot expected later this year, using HSBC’s Orion blockchain...
By The Same Token: Binance adds Franklin tokenized fund collateral
The Situation Bin-ance has partnered with Franklin Templeton to let eligible institutional clients post tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares as off-...
By The Same Token: Matrixdock brings tokenized gold to Solana
The Situation Matrixdock (Matrixport’s RWA tokenization arm) deployed its tokenized gold product XAUm on Solana on Feb. 9, extending what was previously a...
By The Same Token: Tether buys $150M stake in Gold.com
The Situation Tether’s $150M equity investment in Gold.com is a distribution play: it’s buying a front-end precious-metals merchant to push more flow into...
By The Same Token: ETHZilla tokenizes $4.7M home-loan portfolio
The Situation ETHZilla—best known as an “ETH treasury” vehicle—just crossed the line from crypto balance-sheet management into issuer-led consumer credit...
By The Same Token: Broadridge Uses Stablecoins for Repo Trades
The Situation: Broadridge is moving its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform toward instant repo settlement using stablecoins, extending tokenization from...
By The Same Token: SEC Clarifies Tokenized Securities Taxonomy
The Situation: The SEC staff has now explicitly tightened the taxonomy around “tokenized securities,” clarifying that the market needs to stop using...
By The Same Token: SEC Issues Tokenized Securities Guidance
The Situation: The SEC staff last week issued a cross‑division statement clarifying that tokenized securities remain securities—and that moving the record of...
By The Same Token: WisdomTree Makes Crypto Core Business
The Situation: WisdomTree is no longer treating digital assets as an “innovation sleeve”: management is now explicitly calling crypto a core business and...
By The Same Token: $1.7B Crypto Exodus Signals Risk-Off Flows
The Situation: Weekly crypto fund flows flipped decisively risk-off: $1.7B of net outflows hit digital-asset products as BTC led withdrawals and high-beta...
By The Same Token: $1B One-Day ETF Outflows Rattle Institutions
The Situation: U.S.-listed spot bitcoin and ether ETFs saw nearly $1B of net outflows in a single day (Jan 30), a sharp reversal in the “institutions are...
By The Same Token: SEC Chair Urges Pension Funds Add Crypto
The Situation: The SEC chair is publicly telling pension funds “the time is right” to include crypto — a rhetorical pivot that matters more for governance...