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.
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.
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.
SEC vs. CFTC: who regulates crypto in the US, and where the line now falls
The SEC oversees crypto that counts as a security, and the CFTC oversees commodities like bitcoin and ether plus derivatives on them. Since March 2026, the two agencies share an interpretation that says most crypto assets are not securities.
Tokenized Treasuries explained: BUIDL, USDY and the $14.2B T-bill market
Tokenized Treasuries are blockchain tokens that stand for shares in funds holding US government debt, and unlike most stablecoins they pay interest. As of November 2, 2026, rwa.xyz counted $14.21 billion across 119 products, led by Ondo's USDY, Circle's USYC and BlackRock's BUIDL.
Tokenized gilts as margin? The Bank of England says yes; stablecoins must wait
The Bank of England says clearinghouses can already accept tokenized versions of collateral they take today, and set out what they must check first. Stablecoins, tokenized money funds and tokenized gold get questions, not approval.
Hong Kong's SFC calls it a world first: tokenized money market funds now trade 24/7
The SFC let two ChinaAMC tokenized funds trade around the clock on a licensed crypto platform. A week later the HKMA moved its own tokenized settlement rail to 24/7 and said regulated stablecoins are next.
Japan's FSA wants an on-chain finance roadmap by early 2027. Who is at the table?
Japan's Financial Services Agency has opened two new tracks in three weeks: a cross-ministry forum on on-chain finance in the AI era, and a study group on digital and decentralized finance that heard from Nomura and Securitize first.
Korea's crypto exchanges lost a third of their market in six months. Profits fell 78%
Official KoFIU data for the first half of 2026 shows market value, trading and won deposits all collapsing, with a 69% peak-to-trough drop that was worse than the stock market's. Exchange profits took the biggest hit.
The SEC will let tokenized stocks trade in DeFi-style pools for five years. The catch?
A new SEC exemption lets approved onchain venues trade tokenized US stocks through permissioned liquidity pools without registering as exchanges. Companies can veto their own listings, volumes are capped, and only vetted users get in.