Six Swiss banks including UBS and PostFinance joined Swiss Stablecoin AG to test a Swiss-franc stablecoin on Ethereum in a controlled sandbox. Volume is capped below CHF 1 million under FINMA's fintech sandbox framework. Reserves are held in cash at a regulated Swiss bank.
FG Nexus disclosed in an SEC filing that its board discussed a possible business combination with manufactured housing operator FG Communities as part of its real world asset tokenization strategy. Talks are preliminary — no agreement has been reached.
DiamondLake Minerals, ECI and SteelWave signed an MOU to build a tokenized real asset platform combining public market access, investment structuring, and commercial real estate. No definitive agreements have been signed.
Lise, a tokenized stock exchange operating under the EU DLT Pilot Regime in France, is preparing to admit aerospace composites manufacturer ST Group as its first issuer. Subscriptions are scheduled to open on April 9 on a regulated venue with 24/7 secondary trading.
Australia's Parliament passed the Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Bill on April 1. Exchanges, custodians and tokenization platforms will need an Australian Financial Services Licence. The regime takes effect 12 months after Royal Assent, with 18 months to comply.
Plume launched a payroll pilot with Toku that lets employees elect to receive part of their compensation in WisdomTree's WTGXX tokenized money market fund instead of cash. The asset is a U.S.-registered treasury fund under the Investment Company Act, not a stablecoin.
Swift said it has finished the design phase of its blockchain shared ledger and is now building the first MVP. Participating banks will begin live transactions in 2026, with the initial use case focused on real time international payments using tokenized deposits.
Berlin-based Midas raised $50 million in early-stage funding led by RRE and Creandum, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Franklin Templeton. The company operates a prospectus-backed issuance program for blockchain-based certificates under EU regulation.
Eddid Financial coordinated the issuance of what it calls Hong Kong's first silver RWA tokenization project. Up to 40,000 tokens, each representing one troy ounce of silver, were placed with professional investors under the SFC's existing framework.
Obex said it began deploying $1B in USDS across its first cohort of eight projects, including Better, Securitize, Centrifuge and Maple. The deployment spans structured credit, mortgages, energy finance and AI infrastructure within the Sky stablecoin ecosystem.
Visa said it will join the Canton Network as a Super Validator, the first major global payments company in that role. The move shifts Visa from its 2024 pilot participation into infrastructure and governance on a blockchain network used for tokenized financial assets.
NYSE and Securitize signed an MOU under which Securitize will be the first digital transfer agent eligible to mint blockchain native securities on NYSE's planned Digital Trading Platform. Securitize Markets is also expected to join as a broker-dealer participant.
Bank of Montreal plans to launch a tokenized cash platform with CME Group on Google Cloud Universal Ledger. Clients will convert U.S. dollars into tokenized cash for margin and settlement at CME Clearing. Launch is set for H2 2026, pending regulatory approval
Nasdaq and Talos announced a partnership to integrate Talos' digital-asset execution stack with Nasdaq Calypso and Trade Surveillance — building a unified workflow for managing tokenized collateral across on- and off-chain markets. No production launch date was disclosed.
Custodia Bank and Vantage Bank have agreed to use tokenized deposits for settling loan participations on Participate's network of 600+ banks. Live testing was scheduled for late March, moving payment and asset legs together instead of relying on conventional wire settlement.
Amundi and Spiko launched the SAFO tokenized sub-fund under a French UCITS wrapper, with the shareholder register on Ethereum and Stellar, CACEIS as depositary, and Chainlink for on-chain NAV. The fund uses fully collateralized total return swaps with bank counterparties.
