Institutional capital floods back into spot bitcoin funds as BlackRock’s IBIT absorbs the lion’s share. Ether ETFs extend their slide to a fourth straight session, deepening the divergence between the two largest digital assets. XRP and Solana products sit idle—waiting for a catalyst that hasn’t arrived.
The deal gives Payward all three CFTC licenses needed to run a full-stack U.S. crypto derivatives platform. It follows Deutsche Börse's $200 million stake in Kraken earlier this week.
70% in seven days. DTCC working group, JPMorgan pilot, and whale accumulation all landed at once. The token absorbed a 1.94 billion unlock and kept climbing.
Tokenized real-world assets have tripled in 17 months. U.S. Treasuries account for $16 billion. Ethereum carries 60% of the total value. BlackRock's BUIDL fund alone passed $2.5 billion. The question is no longer whether tokenization works. It is whether anyone outside finance will notice before it is too late to compete.
Thursday's inflows ended a brief period of net outflows across the 12 US spot Bitcoin ETFs, with the total category recording $358.1 million on the day. Morgan Stanley's newly launched MSBT also contributed on its second trading day.
Cross-border, cross-bank, near real-time. The transaction ran on XRP Ledger while most banks were closed. DTCC picked Ondo for its 50-firm tokenization working group the same week.
The UK's largest asset manager tokenizes its USD, EUR, and GBP money market funds through the Calastone network. Permissioned tokens launch on Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains with full integration into existing fund infrastructure.
Bitcoin dropped 4%, Ethereum dropped 4%. Ondo surged 9% and Canton gained 7%. Behind each move: Visa and Franklin Templeton. The total value of tokenized real-world assets crossed $12 billion in March 2026. Fifteen months ago it was $5 billion.
On-chain tokenized RWAs crossed $26 billion in value in early 2026 — up from $6.6 billion just one year prior. The mechanism behind that number is simpler than the jargon suggests — and the implications for traditional finance are substantial.
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Franklin Templeton is a traditional asset-management giant and an early leader in real-world-asset tokenization through its on-chain BENJI money-market fund. This tag tracks the firm’s tokenized-treasury products, its spot crypto ETF filings and launches, multi-chain deployments across Ethereum, Solana, and others, and its broader push to bring regulated funds on-chain. Coinliva covers the product moves, the AUM data, and Franklin Templeton’s role in merging traditional finance with blockchain rails.
