Thirty nine US state banking associations announced on 25 August 2026 the formation of BankChain Alliance, an industry consortium set to build a bank owned blockchain network intended to go live in 2027, supporting tokenised deposits, bank issued stablecoins, smart payment tools and automated settle

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on 18 August, opening a 60 day public comment period on a new framework that would let companies raise money through crypto asset offerings without full Securities Act registration. The move lands only days after the regulat

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

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

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

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

There is a neat circularity to the week ahead in New York. Securitize, the firm that turns funds run by BlackRock, Apollo and VanEck into blockchain tokens, is itself about to become a publicly traded share. On 29 June its merger partner holds the shareholder vote. If it passes, as expected, the com

The first Ways and Means crypto tax hearing in years. For UK founders and funds watching the global contest for capital, the signal matters more than the detail.

The institutional custody race in digital assets has a significant new entrant. Laser Digital, the digital asset subsidiary of Japanese banking group Nomura, has received conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Laser Digital National Trust Bank, a de n

The world's most important settlement infrastructure is going digital. On 4 May 2026, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation confirmed it will begin limited production trades of tokenised securities in July 2026, with a full commercial launch planned for October. The announcement confirms wha

Today the US Senate Banking Committee sits down to vote on the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, a 309-page piece of legislation that would do something Washington has been promising for years: draw a clear line between which digital assets are securities and which are commodities, and assign regula

The US administration has attached a specific deadline to its push for digital asset market structure legislation. Patrick Witt, executive director of the President's Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, stated on 6 May 2026 that the White House is targeting July 4 for Senate passage of the Digit

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