on-chain
Round-the-clock chip-stock contracts on Binance and Trade XYZ (Hyperliquid) saw ~$51.6M forced-closed between 21:22 and 21:32 UTC on Saturday with no U.S. share price to anchor them.
regulation
CoreWeave, Broadcom, Verizon, UnitedHealth, AppLovin, Applied Digital, Rocket Lab, Applied Optoelectronics and Cerebras filed objections to OKX-ICE under the SEC's new tokenized-stock framework.
infrastructure
BNY says it settled an overnight triparty repo with Citadel Securities in minutes on its private digital ledger, using a tokenized U.S. 2-year Treasury as collateral.
regulation
Nasdaq-listed PDC, led by former FTX Europe chief Patrick Gruhn, filed a notice October 14 to run a tokenized-securities venue; trading could begin after a 30-day review.
infrastructure
DRW and Marex closed a total return swap referencing S&P's iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Index, tokenized by Kaiko and recorded on Canton via DRW's Derivnex platform.
The October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report publishes the IMF's first empirical slice of tokenized equities — small, more volatile, with 50%+ of trading off-hours.
protocol
French tokenized money-market-fund issuer Spiko closed a $90M Series B led by NEA, taking AUM to $2.7B — on paper larger than BlackRock BUIDL or Franklin OnChain by that narrow slice.
regulation
The OKX-ICE joint venture notified the SEC under the September innovation exemption, planning permissioned Uniswap v4 pools on XLayer for Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and 60 others.
regulation
HM Treasury confirmed on July 16 that HSBC Orion has passed DSS Gate 2 — first firm cleared to run a live digital-securities depository in the UK, ahead of the DIGIT gilt pilot.
protocol
Japan's dominant security-token platform completes 'Project Keystone', porting all live RWA — corporate bonds, real estate, funds — from Corda 5 onto a dedicated Avalanche EVM L1 with sub-2s finality.
regulation
SEC Release 33-11426, published to the Federal Register on July 2, poses 27 questions on crypto and event-contract ETFs. Comments on File S7-2026-24 due 60 days after publication.
infrastructure
Backpack Securities and Sunrise launched SPCX on Solana on June 12, the day SpaceX priced at $135 on Nasdaq. The token is 1:1-backed and redeemable into shares via ACATS.
regulation
The June 2 draft (File DSP-3) makes digital assets and DLT a standalone SEC objective for fiscal years 2026-2030; comments due July 2.
regulation
Paxos Securities Settlement Company, LLC won temporary SEC registration as a clearing agency under Section 17A — the first blockchain-native firm to clear and settle US securities.
infrastructure
DTC will tokenize Russell 1000 equities, ETFs and US Treasuries on Stellar under its SEC no-action letter. First production trades targeted for July, broader rollout October.