Tokenization News Roundup: Resource Extraction, Social Media Monetization and Real World Connections
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Tokenization News Roundup: Consolidation Coming
A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.
How Is Tokenization Impacting Investing?
Decentral Park’s Kelly Ye provides an overview of what tokenization is and how will it affect the investment landscape.
Tokenization News Roundup: Pendulum Swings Toward Doubters
In recent weeks, the buzz around the emerging tool of tokenizing real-world assets has been on how it will grow to achieve the $16 trillion-by-2030 potential that the Boston Consulting Group predicted last year. Inevitably, criticism intrudes, and this week there is sober opinion, caution and skepticism in the zeitgeist.
DeFi Definitely Isn’t Dead
There are no fallen angels in DeFi, just protocols built to follow rules and humans who break them. (Veit Hammer/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)
Tokenization News Roundup: Avalanche Invests $50M in RWA
Competition among blockchains to grab some of the RWA market, new lending pool from Credix that supports Colombian farmer, the first-ever tokenization under Spain’s new laws, how the U.K’s regulations may lead to the country becoming a tokenization hub, and more for the week ending July 27, 2023.
Tokenized Collectibles Platform Americana Is Bringing High-End Physical Items On-Chain
Backed by Alexis Ohanian and OpenSea, the newly-launched platform has created blockchain-based solutions for several pain points associated with buying and selling high-end physical collectibles.
U.S. Banking Watchdog Makes Case for Tokenization, Just Not on Public Blockchains
Self-styled crypto skeptic Michael Hsu, the acting head of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), said tokenization of assets is a serious advance into the future of finance, but decentralized blockchains may be too problematic to handle that movement.
Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank-Backed Taurus Deploys on Polygon Blockchain
The Swiss firm aims to allow financial institutions and corporates to issue tokenized assets on the Ethereum layer 2 network.
Demand for Tokenized Treasury Bonds Soars as Crypto Investors Chase TradFi Yield
The combined market capitalization of tokenized money market funds is nearing $500 million as high yields in traditional markets attract crypto capital.