For UK founders and investors tracking whether tokenised equity can become a genuine mainstream distribution channel, Robinhood's own chain is producing an inconvenient data point this month.

Coinbase has gone live with tokenised US stocks on its own Base network, starting with Apple, Nvidia, Meta and Alphabet, in a move that pushes one of the world's largest crypto exchanges further into the race to bring listed equities onchain. For UK founders and platforms watching how regulated toke

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 and investors wondering whether tokenisation infrastructure will be built by crypto native platforms or by regulated City institutions, this week's announcement from AIM listed Marechale Capital offered a clear answer.

A profitable digital asset exchange putting its own shares onto a blockchain is a small operational milestone dressed up as a big signal, and this week Bullish gave UK founders watching the tokenised equity space a live example of what eating your own cooking looks like at listed company scale.

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

tZERO has unveiled a next generation version of its tokenised securities platform, bringing onboarding, investing, trading, custody and payments together into a single connected experience rather than the fragmented set of tools that has typically greeted new investors in digital securities. The lau

Two UK based tokenisation firms have just picked up Ripple as a shareholder rather than simply a partner, a sign of how much of the plumbing behind tokenised collateral markets is being built by British regulated firms rather than imported from elsewhere.

For UK founders and investors watching the tokenisation sector professionalise, the biggest news this week did not come from a crypto native platform. It came from BNY, the world's largest custody bank, which has just put the plumbing of fund ownership itself onto a blockchain.

Securitize, the tokenisation platform best known in the UK for its custody and infrastructure work with BlackRock's tokenised fund, took a regulatory step past its origins as an issuance and trading platform this week. Its subsidiary, Securitize Capital LLC, became a fully registered investment advi

Ondo Finance, one of the tokenisation platforms UK infrastructure builders watch most closely for signals on where real world asset architecture is heading, has quietly abandoned its original plan to build a full blockchain and replaced it with a narrower execution layer instead.

If you have only been half following the tokenisation story this summer, here is the honest picture: it has stopped being a niche conversation and become the story in UK fintech and startup finance. In just four months TokenisingStartups.com has published more than 145 news stories, briefings and analysis pieces tracking exactly how that shift is happening, and the pace is still accelerating. Backed by the lawyers who are actually writing the rulebook We are pleased to have i

UK investors have so far only been able to watch tokenised stock trading develop in the US from the sidelines. That is about to change.

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

For founders and investors in the UK watching how tokenised equity infrastructure matures elsewhere, a partnership announced on 8 July between two US tokenisation specialists offers a useful signal. The biggest obstacle to broker dealer adoption has rarely been the technology. It has been the regula

For anyone in the UK still weighing whether tokenised equity is a real market or a slide in a pitch deck, the past week offered a concrete answer. On 2 July, Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ, and on the same day it made its own newly listed shares availab

The rails now reaching mainstream wallets are the same rails private and startup equity will eventually run on.

A quiet signal is worth paying attention to. Two independent reports have recently set out to rank and compare the tokenisation platforms now operating across Europe and beyond. One, published by the Austrian firm Onino, focuses specifically on white-label tokenisation platforms operating within the

The tokenised equity sector has reached a milestone that illustrates just how quickly institutional appetite for on-chain financial instruments has matured. Ondo Global Markets, the tokenised stock and ETF platform operated by Ondo Finance, has surpassed $1.5 billion in total value locked, less than