Yury K is a reporter at Real Estate Tokenization News by Tokenizer.Estate. He has 8 years covering blockchain and RWAs. He writes clear, source-based news on real estate tokenization, market infrastructure, and regulation.
China’s central bank and seven agencies issued “Document No. 42” on Feb. 6, reaffirming the domestic crypto-business ban and defining RWA tokenization, while directing strict supervision and approvals/filings for certain offshore tokenized structures tied to onshore rights.
Tokenisation is appearing in Singapore fund structures and distribution rails, but distributor research cited by Finance Magnates shows product innovation ranks below performance and scale. Market flows in 2025 also favoured ETFs, including REIT ETFs.
RWA Weekly (Feb 23, 2026): distributed RWAs edged up to $25.07B (+0.97% WoW) while total holders dropped to 709,945 (−16.4%), mainly from Solana (−44% holders) despite higher value—suggesting a cleanup/recount. Platforms rose to 160; stablecoin users grew again.
DTCC is laying groundwork for a tokenisation platform after SEC staff issued a Dec. 11, 2025 no-action letter to DTC for a preliminary tokenised entitlement service covering select liquid DTC-custodied assets, with operational constraints and off-DTC DvP.
Figure Technology Solutions launched FGRD on its On-chain Public Equity Network (OPEN), positioning it as an SEC-registered, blockchain-registered equity. Issuance, trading, and ownership transfers are recorded on-chain, with ATS trading, optional qualified custody, and T+0 settlement.
World Liberty Financial said it will tokenize loan revenue interests linked to Trump International Hotel & Resort, Maldives, partnering with DarGlobal and Securitize. The offering is structured under Reg D 506(c) and Reg S with transfer restrictions.
NYSE President Lynn Martin said the exchange felt a responsibility to engage with tokenization, as ICE develops a platform for tokenized securities trading and on-chain settlement under a new NYSE venue, subject to regulatory approvals.
Bank of Greece and SWIAT ran Project Sovereign, a sandbox simulation of a sovereign digital bond from issuance to redemption. Greek and German banks acted as investors, while DvP used separate asset and payment blockchains with simulated euros
Dubai-based real estate platform Stake raised $31m in an oversubscribed Series B led by Emirates NBD, with Mubadala, Property Finder and others participating. Stake said it is advancing “regulated tokenisation” and has in-principle approval from VARA.
Valereum Plc said it signed an MoU with Integra Foundation to explore tokenised real estate issuance via its subsidiary VLRM Markets, using Integra’s blockchain infrastructure, with distribution and secondary trading also in scope.
BVNK said it secured a Crypto-Asset Service Provider licence from Malta’s MFSA under MiCA. The firm said the authorisation supports MiCA-regulated crypto-asset services and passporting across the EEA, alongside euro payments and SEPA access via CENTROlink.
Morpho Association said it signed a cooperation agreement with certain Apollo affiliates to support onchain lending markets, alongside a framework for Apollo or its affiliates to acquire up to 90 million MORPHO tokens over 48 months, subject to restrictions.
RWA Weekly (Feb 16, 2026): on-chain real-world assets rebounded to $24.83B (+3.89% WoW) as wallet count rose to 849K and platforms expanded to 158. Solana led value growth, BNB drove wallet onboarding, and stablecoins widened again to $296.5B — keeping settlement rails dominant.
Saudi Arabia’s Real Estate General Authority (REGA) has launched the second edition of its Regulatory Sandbox under the Saudi PropTech Hub, including a fractional ownership pathway under a real estate tokenization framework and a 6–24 month testing phase.
Bank Negara Malaysia has onboarded Standard Chartered, Capital A, Maybank and CIMB into its Digital Asset Innovation Hub to test ringgit stablecoin and tokenised deposit use cases in a controlled wholesale payments environment, including settlement of tokenised assets.
ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said the Eurosystem is preparing tokenised central bank money to settle DLT-based transactions, citing the near-term Pontes initiative and the longer-term Appia workstream aimed at a pan-European DLT ecosystem.
