State Street Corporation announced plans to extend its fund administration, custody and transfer agency services to digitally native fund structures from Luxembourg by end of 2026, using its Digital Asset Platform. The service is not yet live and remains subject to regulatory approvals.
OKX added BlackRock's $2.5 billion tokenized Treasury fund to its institutional collateral framework on April 28, with Standard Chartered holding the assets in regulated custody — the latest step in a programme that began with Franklin Templeton's BENJI a year earlier.
Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority says tokenization structures, stablecoin use cases, and other virtual-asset pilots involving Pakistani users must be brought to the regulator before launch or public promotion.
Republic Power Group said it acquired a 10% stake in NVC Partners and secured access to software covering real world asset tokenization and OTC secondary trading. The filing shows an infrastructure move with support and source-code rights.
Asterium said HUMO Token has reached Coinstore as an Uzbekistan-linked, bond-backed digital asset pegged at 1 HUMO to 1,000 UZS. But Coinstore’s own notice points to trading opening on April 28, leaving the exact live-trading start unresolved.
Finloop has launched RWA CONNECT 2026 in Hong Kong as an ecosystem around its FinRWA Platform. The company says FRP 3.0 covers issuance, minting, listing and on-chain circulation, while new projects using the stack could reduce technology-system costs to as low as $3,000
SurgeXRP said it is developing a tokenized rental real-estate marketplace on XRPL, starting with income-generating properties held through dedicated DAO LLC structures. The platform is still in development and is targeting a public beta in Q3 2026.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency launched Project Crypto and is nearing an innovation exemption for compliant on-chain trading of tokenized securities. For now, the move is still a speech-level signal, not binding relief, a rule proposal, or final guidance.
N3XT has launched the N3XT Digital Dollar (NDD), a bank-issued tokenized deposit for real-time USD settlement on blockchain networks. Issued under Wyoming’s SPDI charter, NDD is aimed at approved institutional clients and backed 1:1 by cash or short-term U.S. Treasuries.
Ondo Finance, Clearstream and 360X partnered to connect tokenized securities on public blockchains with European market infrastructure. Ten Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs — including Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, SPY and QQQ — are now live on 360X for institutional investors.
Deutsche Börse is acquiring a $200M, 1.5% stake in Payward (Kraken) through a secondary transaction. The deal deepens a December 2025 partnership spanning tokenized equities, derivatives, FX liquidity, and custody via Clearstream and Crypto Finance.
HSBC completed a pilot on the Canton Network simulating issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service — the first time the bank tested the product on a public blockchain. No live client deployment was announced.
Blockchain Association submitted a letter to the SEC backing Coinbase's argument that third-party tokenization of public securities should not require issuer consent. The group also pushed for a time- and volume-limited innovation exemption to test tokenized trading.
Currenc Group, listed on Nasdaq under CURR, partnered with Securitize to tokenize its ordinary shares on Ethereum and Solana. Tokenized holders get the same ownership, voting, and corporate action rights as conventional shareholders.
Hong Kong-based Pharos Network raised $44M in Series A, bringing total funding to $52M. Investors include a Sumitomo subsidiary, SNZ and Flow Traders. The company is building a Layer 1 for tokenized RWAs and compliant finance, still in testnet.
South Korea's ruling party is preparing a Digital Asset Basic Act draft that would route stablecoins into foreign exchange law and require tokenized RWA issuers to hold underlying assets in managed trusts. The bill has not been formally filed yet.
