For UK founders and investors watching tokenised equity markets develop, one recurring structural objection has been governance: if you hold tokenised shares, can you actually vote? The answer, until recently, has been sometimes. As of this week, Broadridge Financial Solutions has moved the industry

When Coinbase makes an infrastructure decision, it tends to create a standard. The exchange serves more than 100 million verified users and handles significant institutional order flow. When it announced on 5 May 2026 that Centrifuge would be its preferred tokenisation infrastructure, and confirmed

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation settles more than $3.7 quadrillion in transactions annually and custodies over $114 trillion in assets. For anyone still treating tokenised finance as a niche experiment, the DTCC's announcement of a formal tokenisation service and accompanying industry

For founders and institutional investors watching the tokenised securities space, 4 May marked a quiet but structurally important inflection point. Securitize, the world's leading tokenisation platform by assets under administration, received approvals from FINRA that expand the capabilities of its broker-dealer subsidiary, Securitize Markets LLC, in ways that have not existed in the US financial system before.

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation processes roughly $2.5 quadrillion in securities transactions annually. It is the central clearinghouse for US equities, bonds and derivatives, the infrastructure through which virtually every institutional trade in the world's largest capital market is settled. When DTCC moves, the industry adjusts its assumptions.vOn 4 May 2026, DTCC moved.

If one announcement were to define the week in tokenised finance, it would be this: Securitize and Computershare have agreed a partnership that, for the first time, creates a direct pathway for thousands of listed US companies to issue shares in tokenised form. The announcement, made on 29 April 2026, may be the most consequential development for tokenised equity since BlackRock's BUIDL fund first crossed \$1 billion in assets under management. Here is why.

On 29 April 2026, tZERO Group, Inc. announced that the required majority of its TZROP holders had approved the conversion amendment. Of the 1,594 holders who participated, representing 72.2% of outstanding TZROP shares, an overwhelming 84.6% voted in favour. The proposal cleared the required simple majority threshold, with 61.2% of all outstanding TZROP shares voting yes. Under the terms of the conversion, each TZROP will become three shares of tZERO Series B preferred s

One of the most persistent criticisms of tokenised equity has always been the governance gap: you hold the token, but someone else holds the shareholder rights. On 28 April 2026, that changed. Ondo Finance and Broadridge Financial Solutions announced a partnership that enables holders of over 250 tokenised stocks and ETFs on Ondo's Global Markets platform to participate in proxy voting — and access regulatory filings — for the first time. It is the first time governance ri

Liquidity Map. Did The Liquidity Problem in Tokenised Finance Just Get Solved?

DigiShares in the Gulf DigiShares, the Danish-founded tokenisation infrastructure provider, has announced that CEO Claus Skaaning, will participate in an RWA tokenisation masterclass in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday 6 May 2026 where the programme will cover three core topics: legal readiness for RWA tokenisation in the Gulf, asset classification under emerging Saudi frameworks, and the near-term market direction for institutional digital assets in the region.

The landscape of startup funding in 2026 is changing fast. Venture capital remains powerful, but it is no longer the only serious path. A new wave of regulated digital securities is creating alternative routes to capital for founders who want fairer, broader access, greater control, and more flexible ownership structures.

As of this week, the global tokenisation industry has convened in Dubai. Dubai RWA Week 2026 — running from April 27 to May 1 with the flagship RWA Summit on May 1 at Uptown Tower in DMCC — marks the most significant gathering of institutional RWA participants outside of New York and London this year. For UK founders and investors tracking where capital and regulatory momentum are building, the event sends a clear signal: the Gulf has become a first-tier jurisdiction for r

When tokenisation advocates talk about "real-world assets," they typically mean government bonds, private credit, or commercial real estate. K Wave Media has a different idea: K-pop photo cards and Korean blockbuster films. On April 27, 2026, the NASDAQ-listed entertainment and Bitcoin treasury company announced it is in advanced discussions with leading securities firms and Solana AI to establish a joint venture focused on real-world assets (RWA) and security token offeri

A NASDAQ-listed company has made a direct bet on the RWA tokenisation infrastructure sector. Republic Power Group Limited (NASDAQ: RPGL) announced on April 27, 2026 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 10% strategic equity interest in NVC Partners Limited, alongside a technology services and platform enablement arrangement with NVTH Limited and its affiliate NVTHK Limited.

Existing shareholders - early employees, angels, seed funds - can transact in controlled, periodic windows without the company losing its private status or triggering the ongoing reporting obligations of an MTF or public exchange.

A milestone that seemed ambitious at the start of 2025 has been quietly crossed: the total value of tokenised equities on public blockchains has surpassed $1 billion. The figure represents a year-on-year growth of approximately 2,878% — from just $32 million twelve months ago — and is accelerating. For a sector that spent years in proof-of-concept mode, the numbers are finally moving in a direction that demands attention from founders, investors, and regulators alike.

How the RWA Market Crossed $29 Billion and Why the Real Growth Is Still to Come Three years ago, tokenised real-world assets were a niche within a niche — a small group of experiments by crypto-native firms testing whether traditional financial instruments could be represented on public blockchains. Today, the market has grown nearly 20x to exceed $29 billion in on-chain value, institutional players ranging from BlackRock to JPMorgan are deploying live products, and at least

Plume employees can now elect to receive a portion of their monthly salary in shares of WisdomTree's WTGXX, a tokenised, SEC-regulated money market fund that currently yields around 4–5% annually.

Most so-called "tokenised stocks" — including some popular DeFi products — are synthetic: a token whose price tracks an underlying stock, backed by some form of collateral or contractual claim.

There is a number that keeps moving faster than most people expected: $27.6 billion. That is the total value of tokenised real-world assets on-chain as of April 2026, up from $8.4 billion a year ago — a 300% surge year-on-year, occurring not in a crypto bull market fuelled by retail speculation, but driven overwhelmingly by institutional capital.