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.

Real world assets on Robinhood Chain reached an active market value of about $70 million as of 25 July, a roughly fivefold jump from the low tens of millions of dollars the network held only two weeks earlier, according to onchain data reported by CoinDesk. The jump is one of the clearest signals ye

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

As the equities markets are generally moving towards tokenisation, a common question is how the marketing of tokenised equity differs from traditional equity. In this respect, it is a mistake to focus on the “tokenised” element of tokenised equity. In the UK, tokenisation does not, from a purely legal analysis, expand the target market to whom shares can be sold. Where a token represents rights to, or interests in, an underlying share, it is very likely going to be treated as

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

The market for tokenised stocks has reached an all time high of 2.2 billion dollars, according to data published this week by Token Terminal, with tokenised US Treasuries built on Circle and Securitize infrastructure on BNB Chain now sitting at a separate 4.6 billion dollars. The milestone lands alo

SCRYPT, a Swiss licensed institutional digital asset infrastructure provider, has begun using Franklin Templeton's BENJI token, the tokenised share class of the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, to manage its own treasury operations. The move gives SCRYPT round the clock, on chain access

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

Bank of America has appointed Sonali Theisen as head of its global digital assets platform, alongside Adam Dixon as global head of digital asset transformation and Kevin Milsom as head of platforms AI transformation, according to Bloomberg reporting confirmed across multiple outlets on 17 and 18 Jul

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

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Crypto and Digital Assets opened a cross party inquiry on 21 July into UK banks refusing accounts and restricting payments to cryptocurrency and digital asset businesses, giving the sector a six week window to put hard evidence behind a complaint it has made inf

Ondo Finance activated round the clock minting and redemption for ten additional tokenised US stocks on 17 July, including AMD and Intel, taking the total number of always available assets on its platform to 16. The move makes Ondo the first tokenisation platform to offer genuine round the clock pri

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation began limited production trades of tokenised Russell 1000 stocks, exchange traded funds and US Treasuries this week, moving the world's largest securities depository from pilot planning into live settlement on blockchain rails for the first time.

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix raised $26.5bn in an oversubscribed American depositary receipt sale that began trading on Nasdaq on Friday, and within the same trading window tokenised versions of its stock were already live across three separate blockchain networks. Ondo Finance issued the tokenis

Structured products are a mainstay of Asian wealth portfolios, and HSBC is one of the region's largest issuers of them. That makes the efficiency case unusually strong. Popular products such as autocallables and equity linked notes have busy lifecycles, with observation dates, coupon triggers and early redemption events that are currently tracked and reconciled separately by the issuer, paying agents and distributors. A digitally native note makes the token itself the single

The group is backed by the City of London Corporation and will spend the next year working on live tokenisation use cases across UK financial markets, starting with tokenised repo. Woolard, who spent eight years as chair of the Financial Conduct Authority before taking on the Champion role in April, is addressing the report to whoever holds the Chancellor's job next, a reminder that this is being built to outlast any one minister. The headline numbers are designed to focus mi

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

CryptoUK is the trade association for the UK cryptoasset and digital finance sector, and its response is worth reading precisely because it stops short of applause. The vision, it agrees, is the right one. Tokenisation can cut reconciliation costs, speed up settlement and collateral movement, strengthen ownership records and open up new issuance and post trade models. The practical issue, as CryptoUK frames it, is whether any of that can be translated into the concrete things