For UK founders and investors watching whether tokenisation infrastructure gets built from scratch or bolted onto rails the world already trusts, this week's answer came from two of the biggest names in global banking. Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first live cross border transactio

For UK founders and investors watching which model wins the tokenisation infrastructure race, this week's confirmation from one of the world's largest custodian banks is a bigger signal than another platform launch.

For UK founders and investors still treating tokenised equity as a slow burn regulatory story, the retail adoption numbers out this week are a reminder that the market is not waiting for permission. The total number of holders of tokenised stocks climbed to 1.31 million, more than double the figure

For UK founders watching tokenisation move from pilot to plumbing, the clearest signal this week came not from a new platform launch but from the world's largest securities depository proving the rails work, followed within days by the IMF warning that proving they work is not the same as proving th

US based venture firm Accel has raised 800 million dollars for its ninth early stage Europe and Israel fund, alongside a further 2.7 billion dollars across three other funds, the firm confirmed on 12 August.

Most of the debate about who gets funded starts and ends with the initial cheque: who wins the pitch, whose warm introduction lands, which fund says yes. It is the right place to start, but it stops the story too early. A less visible shift is under way further up the capital stack, in how venture f

CoinMarketCap has expanded its professional data API with seven new endpoints dedicated to real world assets, giving developers and institutions a single reference point for tracking tokenised stocks, government bonds, exchange traded funds and real estate as the on-chain RWA market approaches 34 bi

Fragmentation across ERC 1400 and ERC 3643, where every platform ends up with its own proprietary compliance logic and vendor lock in, has become enough of a problem that competing platforms are now collaborating to fix it. Brickken, DigiShares, Bit2Me, Dekalabs, Hacken and several others, have backed ERC 7943, a new modular standard co authored by Brickken's Dario Lo Buglio, currently under review at the Ethereum Magicians forum. It separates identity, compliance and permiss

Cantor Fitzgerald and Securitize announced a partnership on 15 July to bring initial public offerings and follow-on share offerings onto blockchain infrastructure, extending tokenisation into the point where companies actually raise capital rather than just the secondary trading that has dominated t

Financial technology provider Broadridge published survey findings this month showing that tokenisation has become a strategic priority for 84 per cent of the financial services executives it polled, a number that turns a debate long dominated by pilots and position papers into something closer to a

Britain will become the first G7 country to issue a sovereign bond on a public blockchain, after HM Treasury confirmed at Mansion House on 15 July that the Digital Gilt Instrument, known as DIGIT, is on track for issuance by the first quarter of 2027.

Mark Pascall, co-founder of The Wellbeing Protocol, recently published an account of governance experiments being run through hum, a platform managing shared community treasuries. Although these are not investment funds, they are managing a familiar problem: how groups decide where capital should be allocated. The first governance model, Gov1, was straightforward where every member could propose spending and every member voted equally. In theory it was highly democratic. I

Barclays published a report with PwC on 9 July putting a number on something the UK tokenisation sector has mostly argued from instinct rather than evidence: what the technology is actually worth to the country. The answer, according to "Rewiring Finance: Tokenisation as a Catalyst for UK Growth", is up to £33bn in additional GDP per year by 2035, with roughly two thirds of that benefit landing outside financial services altogether. Just think about that, Most tokenisation c

After spending Tuesday at the London Blockchain Institutional Tokenisation Summit, hosted at DLA Piper, I came away with a different feeling from the one the report leaves you with. Not a contradiction of it, but a serious counterweight. In a room full of asset managers, custodians, market makers, platforms and lawyers, the mood was neither hype nor anxiety. It was practical, curious, and quietly confident. The prevailing view was that the UK's regulatory environment, and the

When the conversation turns to how founders raise money, it almost always turns to equity. Who led the round, at what valuation, on what terms. It is worth pausing on the quieter alternative, because on 29 June a new pot of it opened. Innovate UK is inviting UK registered organisations to apply for

On 30 June, something quietly ends for anyone who owns shares in a private British company. Until that date, trading those shares on the London Stock Exchange's Private Securities Market, the venue built under the UK's new PISCES regime, costs nothing in transaction fees. From 1 July, the first real

A new mid year audit from the crypto research house 21Shares, published on 24 June, contains one figure that anyone watching tokenisation in the UK should sit with. The total value of tokenised real world assets depends almost entirely on which rails you count. On public blockchains, the kind anyone

A dental technology company has put its shares on Solana through a Regulation S offering, and the UK adviser on the deal hints at where private capital formation is heading.

The first big test of tokenised equity exposed the gap between onchain demand and the real shares behind it.

Most of the experiments did not survive in their first form. The problem they were probing is still the most important one in early stage capital.