Blog - Token City

Together, DTCC and Clearstream oversee the custody, clearing or settlement of tens of trillions of dollars of securities across geographies. Given their combined scale, their entry into the tokenization space might be regarded as the...

With its Token City Exchange investment firm, the company is no longer just the “technology engine” behind tokenized issuances and will now directly assume intermediation and registry functions, to which we will add, within a single...

Tokenized money market funds  (TMMFs) sit right where traditional and blockchain finance now overlap most intensely. They look and feel like on-chain stable assets, but behind each token is a conventional fund full of short-term...

When the CEO of the world’s largest asset manager doubles down on a technology, markets listen. That is exactly what happened with Larry Fink’s latest essay on tokenization, co-authored with BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein for The...

Over the last two years, a new form of bank money has been emerging in the background: tokenized bank deposits. These instruments can look like stablecoins in a block explorer, but from a legal and economic point of view they behave much more...

By October 2025, a major research report based on on-chain data estimated that the global stablecoin market had crossed 300 billion dollars in total capitalization, with average daily transaction volumes around 3.1 trillion dollars....

Real-world assets (RWAs) on public blockchains have grown from roughly $5 billion in 2022 to about $29.4 billion, an increase of around 488% in three years. If you extend the lens beyond public chains to include private platforms and...

Nasdaq wants to plug blockchain-based settlement into the existing U.S. equity market structure, without changing what a share is, how trading works, or what protections investors have. If the SEC approves it, this would be the first...

IOSCO, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, like Spain’s CNMV, or the French AMF, is the global standard-setter for securities regulation. Its main goals are to protect investors, ensure fair and efficient...

As Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, put it: “pretty much all transactions will be tokenized”. Smart, programable assets that can generate yield and qualify as collateral enable capabilities currently absent from traditional...

Tokenized crowdfunding combines publicly accessible business financing and blockchain technology, modernizing the distribution and management of investment. It's the alternative financing channel best suited to companies that...