WisdomTree Brings Tokenized Funds to Solana in Multichain Push
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WisdomTree Wins SEC Nod for 24/7 Trading of Tokenized Money Market Fund
WisdomTree secured SEC exemptive relief enabling its Treasury-backed money market fund to trade 24/7 via a broker-dealer principal with instant on‑chain settlement, accelerating use of tokenized Treasuries. The approval validates continuous dividend accrual and could expand around‑the‑clock liquidity across the ~$10B tokenized Treasury pool.
BlackRock routes tokenized Treasury fund into Uniswap’s onchain trading rails
BlackRock arranged for its tokenized Treasury vehicle, BUIDL, to be tradable onchain via Uniswap Labs’ UniswapX order‑routing and Securitize’s Markets platform for whitelisted, qualified investors. The step — paired with an undisclosed BlackRock purchase of UNI and a sharp market reaction — exemplifies a hybrid model that stitches regulated investor controls to decentralized execution and increasingly rich onchain liquidity tooling.
Solana pivots to tokenization and payments at Hong Kong Accelerate APAC
At Accelerate APAC in Hong Kong, Solana framed itself as a settlement layer for continuous digital markets, emphasizing tokenized securities, stablecoin rails and payments rather than consumer-facing narratives. Panels, bank analysts and new market initiatives discussed practical enablers—custody, liquidity backstops, auditability and predictable finality—while flagging technical and regulatory gaps that must be closed for institutional production.
Tokenized RWAs Jump 13.5% in 30 Days as Institutions Push Onchain Issuance
Tokenized real‑world assets climbed roughly 13.5% in the past month, driven by fresh issuance and rising wallet participation on major chains. Regulatory clarifications and parallel growth in tokenized equities—now approaching a near‑billion‑dollar on‑chain market—are accelerating custody‑integrated issuance and market‑infrastructure experiments.
BlackRock Bets Billions on Tokenized Funds to Modernize Markets
BlackRock is accelerating a multi‑billion push to deliver tokenized funds and regulated digital‑wallet distribution, leveraging existing ETP inventory, custody scale and programmable cash to lower settlement friction. While the firm presses regulators for clear guardrails, technical limits and differing market‑size tallies mean near‑term adoption will be bifurcated between compliance‑integrated institutional rails and experimental public chains.
Northern Trust Asset Management launches tokenized Treasury share class
Northern Trust Asset Management has launched a ledger‑backed share class for its short‑duration Treasury portfolio, distributing initially via BNY’s LiquidityDirect and using Goldman Sachs’ digital rails while keeping custody and underlying securities off‑chain. The move comes as on‑chain U.S. Treasury inventories approach roughly $10–11 billion and follows parallel regulatory and infrastructure developments — from DTCC sequencing plans to WisdomTree’s SEC exemption for continuous intraday trading — that together lower barriers to institutional tokenization but raise new liquidity‑timing and custody tradeoffs.
MetaMask brings 200+ tokenized U.S. securities into wallet via Ondo integration
MetaMask has integrated Ondo Finance’s Global Markets into its mobile wallet, enabling eligible non‑U.S. users to buy and trade more than 200 tokenized U.S. securities — including individual stocks, ETFs and commodity‑linked products — directly inside a self‑custodial environment. While the linkage simplifies market access for crypto‑native users, the tokens remain backed by off‑chain broker holdings and rely on issuance and redemption mechanics that will determine how closely they track conventional securities.
Franklin Templeton and SWIFT push for always-on banking built directly on blockchains
At Consensus Hong Kong, Franklin Templeton and SWIFT argued that issuing funds and bank liabilities as native blockchain tokens could enable near‑continuous settlement and reduce operating costs, with short‑duration money market funds flagged as a pragmatic early use case. They said scaling this model depends on interoperability layers (such as SWIFT’s orchestration proposal), clearer regulatory and accounting treatment, institutional custody resilience and fixes to throughput, latency and transaction‑ordering that support professional market‑making.