Visa stablecoin monetization spans card network fees, payment orchestration and issuance infrastructure. With settlement surpassing a $25 billion annualized run rate, we examine where Visa already earns revenue, where new fee pools could emerge, and what remains undisclosed.
How crypto vaults are evolving from DeFi lending pools into capital allocation and securities financing infrastructure—and what institutions need next.
The Clearing House and Quant are bringing tokenized-deposit interoperability to America's $2 trillion-a-day wholesale payment infrastructure. We examine CHIPS's 26:1 liquidity efficiency, Swift's global connectivity advantage and why Fnality's common settlement asset could reshape institutional payments, securities settlement and collateral mobility.
Tokenized funds will NOT reach trillions in AUM through product innovation alone. They require institutional-grade operating infrastructure behind them. State Street is now building the infrastructure layer to solve it.
Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart Group, Cashlink along with 30+ European market participants just called for urgent reform of the EU’s DLT Pilot Regime. Key points...
Citi's Shahmir Khaliq, Head of Services (one of Citi's 5 business lines) lays out the North Star for Citi’s digital asset strategy in payments. Key takeaways:
Aave, the biggest DeFi platform accounting for 25% of the $100B of value locked in DeFi, saw its TVL tumble from $25B to $20B as one of its lending product suffered a $290M hack last night.
German bank KfW plans to actively switch blockchain infrastructure and security registrar during the lifecycle of a live tokenized bond to stress-test DLT infrastructure resilience.
Societe Generale-FORGE announced its collaboration with Consensys to expand global access to its USD CoinVertible stablecoin through integration with MetaMask, the world’s most popular Ethereum self-custodial Web3 wallet.
Clearstream, 360X (Deutsche Börse Group backed digital asset exchange venue), and Ondo Finance have announced a partnership to connect traditional financial markets with onchain infrastructure built on public, permissionless blockchains, bringing tokenized equities infrastructure to Europe.
Deutsche Borse has invested $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent of crypto trading platform Kraken, as the Frankfurt stock exchange operator moves to offer access to a wider array of securities over blockchain rails. The deal, which gives Deutsche Börse a 1.5% fully diluted stake in the company.
HSBC Global Payments Solutions (GPS), the global product line that provides payments, cash management, liquidity, and treasury infrastructure to institutional clients, has successfully completed a pilot simulating the issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service (TDS) on the Canton Network.
