Balcony is building a dedicated Avalanche Layer 1 to place Bergen County's 370,000 property deeds on-chain — a records-modernization project covering $240B in real estate across 70 municipalities, not an investor-facing securities issuance.
AMINA Bank AG has joined 21X — Europe's first fully regulated blockchain-based trading venue — as its first regulated bank listing sponsor, connecting custody, issuance, and settlement in a single on-chain operating chain.
Nasdaq and Payward, the parent company of Kraken, have announced a partnership to build infrastructure for tokenizing equities. The deal uses Kraken's xStocks framework to connect regulated market systems with blockchain networks — but a broad launch is not yet available in major markets.
The SEC submitted a Commission-level token taxonomy to the White House on March 3, 2026, initiating interagency review that will determine regulatory jurisdiction over tokenized securities, including REIT shares, SPV property tokens, and on-chain title instruments.
ECGI Holdings began a live pilot with Nomyx Technology Labs to tokenize $10 million in residential mortgage loans. The agreement will test mortgage asset workflows—origination, pooling, and lifecycle tracking—on public blockchains over 45-60 days.
Tokenized gold hit $6B market cap as XAUT and PAXG volumes topped $1B each. Abraxas Capital took a $151M XAUT delivery from Tether amid the US-Iran crisis.
Northern Trust Asset Management said it launched a tokenized share class for its NIF Treasury Instruments Portfolio, using a blockchain “mirror record” structure and initial distribution via BNY’s LiquidityDirect platform using Goldman Sachs’ GS DAP.
Hong Kong’s HKMA, the Shanghai Data Bureau and the National Technology Innovation Center for Blockchain signed an MoU to research digital trade-finance applications and examine a cross-border platform, including electronic bills of lading under Project Ensemble.
Agora Data and Figure Technology Solutions announced a partnership to distribute U.S. auto loans as tokenized RWAs via Figure Connect. Figure said loan data will be tokenized on the Provenance Blockchain, with onboarding expected to begin in March 2026.
Bloomberg and Kaiko said they will develop a way for Bloomberg Data License offerings— including security master data and evaluated pricing— to be accessed on-chain via Kaiko’s infrastructure, initially targeting tokenized U.S. Treasuries and repo workflows on the Canton Network.
Hong Kong’s 2026–27 Budget says the first fiat-referenced stablecoin issuer licences will be issued in March 2026, and a bill will be introduced this year to create licensing regimes for digital asset dealing and custodian service providers.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has selected Monee Financial Technologies, ReStabilise, Revolut and VVTX for a stablecoin cohort in its Regulatory Sandbox, focusing mainly on issuance and testing use cases including payments, wholesale settlement and crypto trading.
Digital Asset said the Canton Industry Working Group completed a new round of on-chain repo tests, including a cross-border intraday repo using tokenized UK gilts and non-GBP tokenized deposits, with participation from LSEG, Euroclear, DTCC and others.
Crypto.com said it received conditional approval from the OCC for a US national trust bank charter. Reuters reported the charter would support federally regulated custody and trade settlement, but not deposit-taking or lending.
The SEC issued an exemptive order allowing Covered Dealers to buy and sell shares of WisdomTree’s tokenized government money market fund intraday at a fixed $1.00, rather than the next-calculated NAV, under specified conditions.
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.
