Georgia eyes onchain property rights and tokenization with Hedera partnership

Georgia eyes onchain property rights and tokenization with Hedera partnership

Georgia explores putting its public registry on the Hedera blockchain and tokenizing real estate through blockchain-integrated government infrastructure. Georgia’s Ministry of Justice has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the public blockchain network Hedera, as it considers moving the country’s land registry onchain and tokenizing real estate. According to a Monday announcement from the…

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Ondo turns to Figure’s stablecoin with M investment to back tokenized fund

Ondo turns to Figure’s stablecoin with $25M investment to back tokenized fund

The purchase broadens Ondo Finance’s onchain Treasury reserves and comes amid a renewed push into crypto-backed lending across fintechs, lenders and exchanges. Ondo Finance has purchased $25 million of YLDS, the yield-bearing stablecoin issued by Figure Technology Solutions, to diversify the assets backing its tokenized US Treasurys fund. The company said Monday that YLDS will…

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Columbia Business professor casts doubt on tokenized bank deposits

Columbia Business professor casts doubt on tokenized bank deposits

Tokenized bank deposits lack the flexibility and technical features of stablecoins, making them an inferior product, according to Omid Malekan. Banks and financial institutions have started experimenting with tokenized bank deposits, bank balances recorded on a blockchain, but the technology is doomed to lose out to stablecoins, according to Omid Malekan, an adjunct professor at…

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Ondo tokenizes over 100 US stocks and ETFs on BNB Chain

Ondo tokenizes over 100 US stocks and ETFs on BNB Chain

More than 3.4 million daily users of BNB Chain now have access to over 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs on Wall Street after the latest move from Ondo Global Markets. Real-world asset tokenization platform Ondo Global Markets has expanded its tokenized product offerings to BNB Chain, enabling access to more than 100 Wall Street stocks…

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Plume CEO tips RWA to grow 3-5x in 2026 as it grows past crypto natives

Don’t just tokenize assets, build the institutions to back them

RWA tokenization faces criticism, but regulatory clarity and institutional adoption prove it’s building the foundation for finance’s future. Opinion by: Alex Zhang, co-founder at Pharos Tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) is not a self-contained solution to traditional finance problems. To claim such a thing would be one-dimensional. As it stands, RWA tokenization is under immense pressure…

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New Ethereum standard aims to set baseline for real-world asset tokenization

New Ethereum standard aims to set baseline for real-world asset tokenization

EIP-7943 author Dario Lo Buglio told Cointelegraph that the standard’s goal is to solve industry fragmentation with standardized functions for compliance. A coalition of Web3 companies has introduced a new Ethereum token standard designed to streamline compliance and reduce fragmentation in the growing real-world asset (RWA) sector. According to an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, the…

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