For years, one question has shadowed the ambitions of every institution considering tokenised securities on a public blockchain: what happens to our positions, our counterparty details, our transaction history? If any node on the network can read the data, the case for moving regulated assets onchai

The tokenisation industry has spent several years building infrastructure while asking when it will produce the kind of financial returns that attract mainstream capital markets attention. Securitize, the largest regulated tokenisation platform in the United States, just answered part of that questi

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For a sector that has spent years justifying its infrastructure ambitions to sceptical capital markets, Securitize's announcement this week that it will list on Nasdaq at a $1.25 billion valuation is more than a corporate milestone. It is the first time a company built entirely around tokenised secu

The tokenisation landscape has moved quickly. New rules, new platforms, and significant market milestones have arrived almost weekly in 2026. Whether you are a founder exploring the idea of tokenised equity for the first time, an investor trying to stay current, or a curious observer still getting t

Real world asset tokenisation has matured from white paper to working infrastructure. The question for UK founders and operators is now less whether it works, and more what the stack actually looks like end to end.

Private equity and venture capital have been theoretical use cases for tokenisation for several years. In 2026 they are starting to become real ones, but rarely in the ways the early narratives predicted.

A Hong Kong venture capital firm chose London to launch its tokenised Digital Venture Fund. The infrastructure that made it possible is now operational, and accessible to other managers.

White-label tokenisation platforms have moved from niche offering to recognisable category. Several are now active in or accessible from the UK market. Here is how the landscape is taking shape and what founders should be looking for.

The tokenised equity market passed a significant milestone on 12 May 2026 as Ondo Finance announced that its Ondo Global Markets platform had surpassed $1 billion in total value locked, the first tokenised stock and ETF platform in history to reach that threshold. The announcement came alongside a s

When the FCA launched the PISCES sandbox framework in June 2025, most commentary treated it as an interesting experiment. Less than a year later, the UK has four approved private company trading platforms, the first trades have been completed, and one operator has launched without charging fees or r

A freedom of information request that nobody should have needed to file found that 81 per cent of the assessors for Innovate UK's Women in Innovation programme were male. Not a percentage from an anonymous third-party study. The publicly funded body specifically designed to support female founders w

There are proofs of concept and there are proofs of function. The distinction matters enormously in institutional finance, where the gap between a demonstration and something that actually works under real-world conditions is often where promising technologies go to stall. On 6 May 2026, Ondo Financ

For UK founders watching the tokenisation space, there is a useful rule of thumb: when the infrastructure behind financial markets changes hands, something structural is shifting. On 5 May 2026, something structural shifted.

The annual Consensus conference, held in Miami Beach this week, has long been the place where digital asset ambitions are announced. In 2026, something has shifted. The institutions arriving in Miami are not announcing plans. They are reporting results.

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.

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

Tradeweb's Q1 2026 earnings call, held on 29 April, marks a different kind of moment. The platform reported $10 million in quarterly revenue directly attributed to commercial activity on the Canton Network — the distributed ledger infrastructure purpose-built for institutional digital asset deployment. That is not a pilot. That is a revenue line. What Tradeweb Reported Tradeweb Markets, which operates one of the world's largest electronic fixed income and derivatives tr

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