Standard Chartered plans Singapore custody for cryptoassets, stablecoins and tokenized assets. Institutional access is conditional, with no launch date disclosed.
Orca and Loopscale form Formation as Orca resets an 80% fee-allocation vote for October 11–16. ORCA supply and existing positions remain unchanged.
Circle, Ripple, QRT and Standard Chartered's SC Ventures invest in OKX at a $25B valuation. The amount raised is undisclosed as stablecoin products expand.
The CFTC says futures firms may invest customer funds in tokenized versions of permitted assets and keep blockchain records, subject to existing custody and recordkeeping rules.
Circle named BlackRock, Visa, DTCC and nine other institutions as founding validators for Arc, its USDC-native blockchain scheduled for a public mainnet launch on September 16.
Natixis CIB has joined 10 founding institutions behind Europe’s RL1 blockchain cooperative, a tokenized-assets ledger built on SWIAT technology that has settled more than €700 million.
Ondo Finance has launched Ondo Network, a private execution layer for financial markets that replaces its conventional blockchain plan and already powers Ondo Perps.
Jito has publicly launched JTX, a self-custodial Solana trading platform for spot tokens and RWAs, with 80% of trading fees earmarked for JTO buybacks and burns.
Former Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers launched EthSystems to build confidential stablecoin, bond and settlement systems for banks on Ethereum.
The U.S. and UK issued five digital-asset recommendations and a 10-point stablecoin statement, seeking cross-border rules for tokenized securities, collateral and private digital money.
SBI Holdings and the Solana Foundation will turn SBI R3 Japan into SBI Solana Global to support JPYSC, tokenized assets and cross-border settlement on Solana.
Japan's lower house passed a crypto bill that moves digital assets toward stock-style rules, a 20% tax path and potential crypto ETFs.
Larry Fink said tokenized markets need “one common blockchain” during Davos as RWA.xyz tracked about $23B in tokenized RWAs and ether held near $2,960.