With a joint initiative, UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum Bank, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Zürcher Kantonalbank, BCV - Banque Cantonale Vaudoise and Swiss Stablecoin are joining forces to launch a Swiss bank led CHF stablecoin sandbox.

BNY and Robinhood land strategic roles in Trump Accounts. Here is what it means for digital assets.

"While Hong Kong slept, Leo Li was buying $2M tokenized Google exposure via Ondo Finance at 1am" - WSJ

Franklin Templeton, a major player in traditional mutual fund management and retail distribution, is acquiring a spin-off from CoinFund to launch Franklin Crypto.

Fed Governor signals pro-innovation but anti-regulatory arbitrage position on crypto

Mitsubishi Corporation is set to leverage blockchain-based tokenized deposits from JPMorgan to enable instant, cross-border fund transfers. Following successful pilot transactions using JPMorgan’s Blockchain Deposit Account, full-scale rollout is expected as early as fiscal 2026.

DZ BANK (issuer) and KfW (investor) completed a crypto security issuance under Germany’s eWpG, powered by a Smart Bond Contract and without a CSD.

Franklin Templeton partners with Ondo Finance to tokenize ETFs for 24/7 trading

NYSE and Securitize to bring issuer-led equities tokenization closer to production a partnership...

ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone laid out the vision for a tokenzied future for the bloc in a recent speech titled Building the Rails for Europe’s Tokenised Financial Markets. Key takeaways:

BMO to launch tokenized deposit product with Google and CME

In a speech titled, Number Go Down and Other Schadenfreude, the SEC Chair lays out the forthcoming Innovation Exemption framework. Key points:

Stablecoins Are the Story. Trading Is the Money. Kalshi, one of the two main prediction markets, has reportedly raised $1B+ at a $22B valuation, doubling from $11B just months ago. Backed by Paradigm, Sequoia, a16z, ARK, and now Coatue.

SEC has approved Nasdaq's request to settle Russel 1000, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 ETFs in tokenized forms. But this is NOT a disruptive leap toward on-chain markets. This is tokenization without disruption:

S&P Dow Jones Indices said it has licensed the S&P 500 index to Trade[XYZ], a crypto startup that has created some of the most popular perpetual futures contracts on Hyperliquid. 

SEC & CFTC drops formal crypto taxonomy. Here is what it means.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a no-action letter to Phantom, allowing it to provide software that connects users to registered derivatives platforms without registering as a futures commission merchant. In effect, Phantom can act as a non-custodial access layer to regulated futures markets.

Mastercard is acquiring BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure startup, for up to $1.8 billion, stepping deeper into stablecoin-powered payments just months after BVNK’s ~$2B deal with Coinbase fell through.

HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc are set to become among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, giving two of the city’s note-issuing banks a central role in the government’s push to position itself as a global digital-asset hub

Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor at the Bank of England, signalled that U.K. regulators may reconsider their relatively strict limits on stablecoin holdings, following pushback from the digital asset industry.

Mastercard launches Crypto Partner Program with 85 digital asset firms as it moves to defend its position against stablecoins and Visa.

Nasdaq announces partnership with Boerse Stuttgart Group's DLT settlement firm, Seturion

Nasdaq to distribute tokenized stocks globally via crypto exchange Kraken

US regulators greenlight public permissionless blockchains to banks

NYSE's parent company, ICE, invests in crypto exchange, OKX, at $25B valuation

Kraken becomes the first digital asset firm to secure Fed Master Account access

Visa and Bridge to expand their stablecoin card partnership and bring the program to more than 100 countries

Nasdaq seeks prediction market product approval from SEC

EUR stablecoin consortium Qivalis targets H2 2026 launch

Barclays explores blockchain for tokenized deposits and payments

OCC's proposed rulemaking framework for restricting stablecoin yield

Morgan Stanley files for bank charter to streamline digital asset push

Key points from OCC's just released proposed rulemaking for Genius stablecoins.

Revolut, along with ReStabilise, Monee Financial Technologies and VVTX, has been chosen by the UK financial watchdog as one of four companies to test the use of stablecoins. 

Stablecoin market size is scaling. But how is the stablecoin business? Circle's latest results offer key insight.

Meta, the company that owns world's biggest three social media platforms - WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram - is set to integrate stablecoins in H2 2026

SEC unlocks capital markets prime time for WisdomTree's tokenized money market fund

France's biggest bank - BNP Paribas - has launched tokenized money market fund on public blockchain, demonstrating full stack capabilities

The Markets and Trading Division of SEC just clarified that eligible USD payment stablecoins held by broker-dealers will face a 2% haircut under SEC Rule 15c3-1.

DTCC's CEO says "tokenization reduces counterparty risk."

Nasdaq listed fintech Payoneer to launch stablecoin offering in partnership with Bridge

Five US banks are working with the Cari Network, a blockchain-based platform led by former US Comptroller of the Currency Gene Ludwig to launch a shared tokenized bank deposit network.

Card payment networks are becoming a national sovereignty issue. UK is set to explore alternatives to Visa and MasterCard