Tokenisation

Startale Group raised $63 million in a Series A round, with $50 million from SBI Group and $13 million from Sony Innovation Fund. The funding will be used to scale Strium for tokenized securities, expand yen and dollar stablecoins, and develop Startale’s app into a consumer SuperApp.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule allowing Nasdaq to trade and settle certain stocks as blockchain-based tokenised shares alongside traditional ones. A pilot programme by the Depository Trust Company will test how these tokenised trades work within existing market systems.

OpenSea has pushed back the launch of its highly anticipated SEA token, scrapping its planned March 30 debut as worsening crypto market conditions and internal readiness concerns force a strategic pause on one of its most important product rollouts.

OpenSea has delayed the launch of its SEA token, originally planned for 30 March, due to difficult crypto market conditions. The company will only launch the token once all systems are ready, with no new date announced.

xStocks launched the xPoints rewards programme to give users points for trading tokenised stocks, providing liquidity, and using the assets in DeFi. The governance wording in the programme has sparked speculation about a possible future token, though nothing has been confirmed.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has begun technical experiments using blockchain technology to test the settlement of deposits held at the central bank, marking a significant step in its exploration of distributed ledger systems within core financial infrastructure.

Silver suffered a brutal collapse, falling more than 17% in just 24 hours and wiping out a short-lived rebound as selling pressure spilled across global markets.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Investment Management has officially launched the Hang Seng Gold ETF on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, offering investors direct exposure to physical gold for the first time.

F/m Investments aims to put $6B of TBIL ETF shares on a permissioned blockchain while maintaining full regulatory compliance.

Solana Mobile has officially launched its SKR token airdrop, opening claims to Seeker smartphone users and early developers in its decentralized app ecosystem.