Huge week ahead for RWAs, stablecoins & tokenization.

Tokenization is one of blockchain's biggest drivers of adoption. Grayscale Research attended @token2049 in Singapore, where tokenization was the buzziest topic. A key highlight was a partnership from @okx and @NYSE parent ICE. Read more on The Stack: grayscale.com/the-stack/thre…

Powerus @powerus_usa the latest to tokenise their equity on @solana. The result: $8m trading volume in DeFi. Higher than their NASDAQ-listed stock.

The number of tokenized RWA startups admitted to Alliance has tripled over the past few batches, and the trend is pretty clear every financial instrument will be tokenized. We’re seeing founders build across equities, credit, commodities, compute, energy, and other real world assets. We are also seeing specialized market makers becoming part of the Alliance stack helping our founders improve liquidity and market structure onchain so finding PMF is becoming much easier now. Over the next few months, expect to see entirely new ways of tokenizing real world assets along with new financial instruments that haven’t existed before. Still early

Tokenisation can create value in two ways, and only two ways: 1) by bringing liquidity to a (il)liquid asset 2) by creating access to an asset otherwise unavailable to the market Everything else is noise.

Democratisation of access to products is the only way to solve the problem of unequal growth. We are solving this with @Tok_edge.

The failure of CLARITY to pass creates more grey area, volatility and uncertainty. Exactly what DeFi thrives in finding novel solutions for. Crypto is dead. Long live crypto.

Should companies be able to approve or veto the tokenization of their stocks?

Repeat after me. Tokenisation is a means for distribution. It is not the product. Thought experiment: Product 1: Tokenised "A", an instrument that I can buy easily on @IBKR . Why go through the pain of buying, custodying, holding (risking) this on-chain? Product 2: Tokenised "B", an instrument impossible to buy in TradFi or any other exchange, unless you buy it on-chain. Product 2 has demand. Product 1 does not. Both are tokenised.

Everyone should be able to access high-quality financial assets, wherever they live. That's what tokenization unlocks: taking the best of US capital markets and making them available on a global scale. The industry is still small compared with global finance, but the advantages are becoming harder to ignore. Traditional market infrastructure was built around fixed hours, closed networks and layers of intermediaries. It was never designed for 24/7 execution, programmable assets, composability or self-custody. The needs of investors have moved faster than the rails underneath them. We're working to change that. What gives me confidence is seeing how many different people are now pushing this industry forward. Founders are building new products, LPs are bringing liquidity, traders are finding new uses, and infrastructure teams are making the whole thing work. It's a privilege to be in the trenches with all of you. We are still early, and there is a huge amount left to build. It will also take time and effort for the old guard to get onboard. This is worth fighting for.

BREAKING: There are now a record 1.9 million onchain tokenized equity holders, up +134% month-over-month. The total number of holders is up +1,360% year-to-date. Amid a record IPO market, driven by SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and increased demand for 24/7 markets, tokenization is seeing rapid adoption. Just 10 months ago, there were less than 100,000 people holding tokenized assets. Jupiter, the largest onchain trading platform on Solana, has driven much of this growth, with 61% of volume now traded during off-hours. The platform has also seen a +46% month-over-month increase in active tokenized equity traders. Tokenization is the future.