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KPMG counted Tether Gold's bars: 520,089 ounces for 520,089 tokens
Tether says KPMG gave Tether Gold (XAU₮) a clean audit for 2025, its second Big Four audit after USDT. The gold matched the tokens almost to the ounce.
OKX and NYSE owner ICE open 24/7 tokenized stock trading on November 23, with 70+ assets
OKX says its joint venture with Intercontinental Exchange, OKXICE, starts trading tokenized US securities around the clock on November 23 under a temporary SEC exemption. OKB rose about 5% from Tuesday noon to Wednesday morning ET.
Deutsche Bank custody site says bitcoin, ether and 3 stablecoins are available in Germany
Germany's largest bank says its digital asset custody is available to Corporate Bank clients in Germany. Retail customers are not part of it.
Rumor vs record: will an "ANT" Anthropic stock token go live on Solana on IPO day?
A viral post says a tokenized Anthropic share called ANT will launch on Solana the day Anthropic starts trading in public. CoinGecko does list an Anthropic xStock with a Solana address, but under a different ticker, with zero supply and no price. We found no Anthropic or issuer statement that sets a date.
Sharks sold $19 million of gold tokens in a day, a day after buying $8.1 million of XAUt
A handful of big wallets sold $10.5 million of PAXG and $8.5 million of Tether Gold and bought back $2.8 million. Both tokens slipped about 0.9%.
80 sharks bought $8.1 million of Tether's gold token as ether fell 5%, while PAXG was sold
While ether dropped 5%, large wallets on DeepSea's live feed piled into XAUt. The rival gold token, PAXG, went the other way.
Sharks bought $3.08 million of tokenized SpaceX on Arbitrum. Its DEX pool traded $56,000
Two shark wallets kept buying rSPCX and rCRCL, tokens CoinGecko lists as tokenized SpaceX and Circle stock, even as both fell. Almost none of it went through the public pool.
GL1 Org launches with HSBC and JPMorgan on its member list. What will it build?
Global financial institutions have formed the Global Layer One Organisation to push shared rules for tokenized markets. Its site lists HSBC, JPMorgan, MUFG, Forge and Standard Chartered as members. The project began at Singapore's central bank in 2024.
Circle and ACI want banks to settle in USDC on rails they already run. First: Colombia
ACI Worldwide, which built the core of Colombia's Bre-B instant payment system, will plug Circle's USDC into its payments platform for a Colombian pilot. The two companies gave no volumes, no bank names and no launch date.
bStocks, a Binance affiliate's stock tokens, jumps 53% to $1.31 billion and No. 1
bStocks, issued on BNB Chain by a Binance group affiliate, is now the largest tokenized stock platform. By our math it added more value in 30 days than the whole $3.58 billion market did, because the rest of the market shrank.
BlackRock's BUIDL slips to No. 3 as tokenized Treasuries shrink to $14.2 billion
BlackRock's on-chain fund held $2.08 billion on November 1, down 7.61% in a month, and now ranks behind Ondo's USDY and Circle's USYC. The whole tokenized Treasury market shrank 3.68%, but holder numbers keep rising.
Strategy booked a record $20.9 billion profit. So why did it sell $432 million of bitcoin?
The biggest corporate bitcoin holder had its best quarter ever on paper. But each share is now backed by 3.7% less bitcoin than in January, it spent $2 billion propping up its own preferred stock, and its CFO is leaving.
Lightning Labs puts bitcoin wallets for AI agents on mainnet, capped near $244 each
Wavelength lets any app or AI agent send and receive bitcoin without running a node. It is still an alpha, each account is capped at 300,000 sats, and the Lightning fee is 25 times what it was in testing.
4.40% on a token: SoFi launches the first national bank-issued tokenized deposit for consumers
SoFi Earn (SOFIE) turns a dollar on deposit at SoFi Bank into a token that pays 4.40% and keeps FDIC coverage. Swap it for SoFi's stablecoin to spend or send, and that coverage ends.
Mastercard lets AI agents pay their own way: nine payments, one budget, no invoices
Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines, which lets AI agents buy services on their own within a spending limit set by a human. It runs on the x402 standard and can settle in cash or stablecoins on Base.
JPMorgan puts JPM Coin on Ethereum: a bank deposit on a public chain, not a stablecoin
JPMorgan's dollar deposit token is now live on Ethereum for institutional clients, 11 months after starting on Base. Its Kinexys unit already moves about $7 billion a day, and banks and stablecoins are now chasing the same job.
An OpenAI research model checked 362 wallets, then spent a stranger's test ETH
Stuck on a crypto coding task, an internal OpenAI model rebuilt wallets from public recovery phrases and paid fees with someone else's testnet ether. Then it reported the job done without mentioning how. No real money was lost, but the lesson for AI agents with wallets is real.
Strategy could be dropped from MSCI's indexes. The final list lands November 11
MSCI has finalized a test that can remove "non-operating" companies, including crypto treasury firms, from its global indexes. In MSCI's own trial run, Strategy and Metaplanet were flagged for deletion, and losing index status means losing automatic buying from passive funds.
BNY and Citadel settled a tokenized Treasury in minutes, then borrowed cash against it
Citadel Securities bought a two-year Treasury note, BNY settled a tokenized version within minutes instead of the next day, and Citadel pledged it overnight for cash. BNY calls it the first use of tokenized assets on a major triparty repo platform.