Real Finance raised $29M to build institutional rails for tokenized assets, aiming to streamline custody, settlement and compliance for banks and asset managers as crypto adoption grows.
BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Rob Goldstein say tokenization could redraw market plumbing, speeding settlement, cutting friction and reshaping liquidity and collateral flows across global markets.
CME Group futures went dark after a major data-centre disruption halted trading Monday, sparking volatility while engineers scrambled to restore systems and verify market data.
VerifiedX partners with Crypto.com to provide institutional custody and liquidity solutions, combining VerifiedX’s compliance and onboarding tools with Crypto.com’s trading, custody and liquidity infrastructure.
Annabelle Huang warns that institutional adoption of DeFi is hindered by blockchain bottlenecks-scalability limits, regulatory uncertainty and security risks that impede capital flows and compliance integration.
Banks racing to meet client demand for tokenized dollars are casting Ethereum as the ‘Wall Street token,’ powering stablecoin rails, compliance tooling, and pilot settlements across major financial institutions.