The SEC and CFTC issued a joint interpretive release establishing a five-part taxonomy for crypto assets — covering digital commodities, collectibles, tools, payment stablecoins, and digital securities. The release supersedes the SEC staff's 2019 investment-contract framework.
K-Prop's Korean and Hong Kong entities signed a memorandum of agreement to divide responsibilities: local asset sourcing and compliance in Seoul, smart-contract development on Polygon and international distribution from Hong Kong. No regulatory authorization has been disclosed.
VersaBank has begun adding foreign-exchange functionality to its Real Bank Tokenized Deposits infrastructure across integrated U.S. and Canadian pilots. The bank positions RBTDs as a regulated alternative to non-bank stablecoins — but commercialization has not yet begun.
Pakistan’s virtual asset regulator has opened first-phase applications for asset-referenced token issuance. The move creates a supervised path for tokens linked to real estate and other real-world assets.
An Australian Senate committee has recommended passage of the Digital Assets Framework Bill 2025. The proposal would place digital asset platforms and tokenised custody platforms inside Australia’s financial services regime, but the bill is still before the Senate and is not yet law.
Shamla Tech said it is preparing a tokenization platform for TORCH RWA and Forge Atlanta. The update adds a named technology provider to a structure that Webstar and Torch had already outlined in earlier public disclosures.
MAIV and Brickken said they have partnered to combine tokenization infrastructure, capital formation and payments into a single operating stack for real-world assets. The companies named Amihan, a land-backed island resort project, as the first planned implementation.
New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority said it is seeking to expand its fintech sandbox into an on-ramp or restricted-licence model, while publishing tokenisation consultation responses and confirming a designation for ECDD’s NZDD stablecoin under the FMC Act
TYTL closed seed financing led by Strobe Ventures and partnered with Beeline Holdings and Anchorage Digital Bank to tokenize fractional home equity on Solana. The platform acquires deed-recorded interests in residential properties — with 11 transactions completed so far.
BitGo Ecosystem Holdings has made a strategic investment in Ubyx and BitGo Bank & Trust, N.A. has been appointed as a settlement agent on the network — adding an OCC-regulated banking entity to Ubyx's clearing infrastructure for tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins.
Balcony is building a dedicated Avalanche Layer 1 to place Bergen County's 370,000 property deeds on-chain — a records-modernization project covering $240B in real estate across 70 municipalities, not an investor-facing securities issuance.
AMINA Bank AG has joined 21X — Europe's first fully regulated blockchain-based trading venue — as its first regulated bank listing sponsor, connecting custody, issuance, and settlement in a single on-chain operating chain.
Nasdaq and Payward, the parent company of Kraken, have announced a partnership to build infrastructure for tokenizing equities. The deal uses Kraken's xStocks framework to connect regulated market systems with blockchain networks — but a broad launch is not yet available in major markets.
The SEC submitted a Commission-level token taxonomy to the White House on March 3, 2026, initiating interagency review that will determine regulatory jurisdiction over tokenized securities, including REIT shares, SPV property tokens, and on-chain title instruments.
ECGI Holdings began a live pilot with Nomyx Technology Labs to tokenize $10 million in residential mortgage loans. The agreement will test mortgage asset workflows—origination, pooling, and lifecycle tracking—on public blockchains over 45-60 days.
Tokenized gold hit $6B market cap as XAUT and PAXG volumes topped $1B each. Abraxas Capital took a $151M XAUT delivery from Tether amid the US-Iran crisis.
