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Ondo Finance announces the latest progress in its ecosystem. The newly launched Ondo Perps open contracts have surpassed $100 million, continuing to grow steadily since their launch in July, with particularly strong recent performance.According to DefiLlama data, Ondo Perps has entered the top three RWA perpetual contract platforms. Meanwhile, the cumulative number of holders for Ondo Stocks has exceeded 270,000, with less than a year until its launch in September 2025, primarily driven by new participants. All tokens are fully backed by corresponding stocks or ETFs and are held by licensed U.S. custodial brokerages.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched 23 stock spot rTokens including rHDV (iShares Core High Dividend ETF), rJEPI (JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF), rLUV (Southwest Airlines), and rOMC (Omnicom Group), covering multiple sectors such as finance, healthcare, and consumer goods. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 682 rTokens.It is reported that rTokens identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, Nvidia is rNVDA) are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, which connects directly to global liquidity pools such as NASDAQ and NYSE through collaboration with compliant broker Alpaca. Their features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets held by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed in token form 1:1, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits and consolidations) mapped in real-time, and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

According to Fortune, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has chosen Abu Dhabi in the UAE as its "International Tokenization Hub," aiming to bring more traditional financial assets onto the blockchain. This move is seen as a significant advancement for Abu Dhabi in attracting global cryptocurrency and fintech companies.Coinbase plans to promote the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) through this hub, leveraging Abu Dhabi's regulatory environment and policy support to expand its presence in the Middle East and international markets. In recent years, Abu Dhabi has continuously improved its digital asset regulatory framework, attracting multiple cryptocurrency institutions to settle there.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently released a vision board on the X platform, expressing hope for strong bipartisan support for the CLARITY Act on September 15, followed by Uptober, and the start of the next cryptocurrency bull market, stating "as predicted."The CLARITY Act aims to provide a clearer market structure and regulatory framework for cryptocurrency assets in the United States. Armstrong's statement reflects his expectations for regulatory progress and a warming market sentiment.

Interstice Digital, a U.S. digital asset infrastructure company, announced a partnership with digital asset prime broker FalconX to launch a non-custodial cross-chain exchange engine, the Cross-Chain Swap Engine, connecting Solana, Robinhood Chain, and Ethereum to the public permissionless blockchain Canton Network built for capital markets, and listed as a Canton selected application. The engine aims to bridge the Canton institutional-grade market infrastructure with major liquidity pools on the retail side.Interstice Digital CEO Janine Yorio stated that the creation of this engine is to help connect Solana, Ethereum, and Robinhood Chain with the growing Canton ecosystem, mentioning that the ecosystem has over $90 trillion in tokenized RWA liquidity each month. FalconX's head of trading strategies, Hassan Bassiri, said that as institutional demand for digital assets rises, infrastructure that allows for frictionless capital movement across ecosystems is crucial. The engine is supported by compliance and infrastructure partners such as Trulioo, TRM Labs, CertiK, Canton Strategic Holdings, and MPCH. Interstice Digital is a subsidiary of Everyrealm Inc.

According to Forbes, Larry Fink, the CEO of the world's largest asset management company BlackRock, referred to tokenization as "the next generation of the market." He pointed out that after nearly a decade of hype, multiple setbacks in launching, and a series of promising pilot projects, mainstream financial institutions are seriously pushing to put real-world assets on the blockchain.Fink's statement further highlights the traditional asset management giants' emphasis on blockchain infrastructure. As institutions accelerate their exploration of asset tokenization, related practices are shifting from proof of concept to larger-scale practical applications, which are expected to reshape the ways assets are issued, traded, and settled in global markets.

Cross-border payment company Airwallex co-founder and CEO Jack Zhang stated that stablecoins are becoming an important channel for global capital flow, but sovereign financial systems still determine how to incorporate them, rather than the other way around. As the adoption of stablecoins grows, this trend will intensify. The Central Bank of Brazil has included virtual asset services in its foreign exchange and international capital regulatory framework, Vietnam is working on building a regulated crypto market while banning crypto assets as a means of payment, and the Philippines has indefinitely extended the suspension of virtual asset service provider licenses, all indicating that the adoption of stablecoins will occur within the regulatory frameworks of various countries.He noted that technology is making business more globalized, while financial sovereignty is becoming more localized, and governments will continue to set their own rules for currency, data, identity, and payments. The most enduring stablecoin infrastructure needs to connect sovereign financial systems, provide deep liquidity, and offer reliable conversion between stablecoins and fiat currencies for businesses. Airwallex, with a focus on corporate accounts, has obtained a central bank payment institution license in Brazil and acquired MexPago, the holder of the IFPE license in Mexico, to access the local financial systems of major economies in Latin America. It bets that AI and stablecoins will drive more global business, making regulated local connections more valuable.

Ondo posted on platform X that tokenized stocks are making history. A buy transaction worth $2,328,595.73 for QQQon has been completed on Ethereum in a single transaction.Ondo stated that this seven-figure execution was achieved exclusively on Ondo Stocks. Ondo is a platform focused on the tokenization of real-world assets, and its Ondo Stocks product supports the trading of traditional financial assets like U.S. stocks in tokenized form on-chain.

According to DefiLlama data, the total value of RWA (real-world assets) deposited in DeFi protocols has increased from 12 million dollars three years ago to nearly 4 billion dollars today, an increase of more than 300 times.

According to Chainwire, Ondo Finance's tokenized stock platform Ondo Stocks has reached a total locked value (TVL) of $1.01 billion, less than a year since its launch in September 2025. The platform became the world's highest TVL tokenized stock service provider within 48 hours of its launch and continues to lead, offering over 440 types of assets. Each token is fully backed by the corresponding stock or ETF and is held by a licensed U.S. custodial broker.In addition, Ondo Finance officially disclosed that the perpetual contract platform Ondo Perps, launched in July, has accumulated a trading volume of over $8 billion, with more than $5 billion traded in nearly 30 days since its public launch.

According to DefiLlama Research data, from January to June 2026, approximately 169,000 wallets made their first transaction in the RWA market on Hyperliquid, accounting for 31.7% of new users during the same period.DefiLlama co-founder 0xngmi stated that among users who made their first transaction in RWA, about 80.9% continued to trade RWA thereafter but did not further enter the cryptocurrency trading market.The data shows that Hyperliquid's RWA product has indeed brought in a new user base, but most users remain in the RWA trading space and have not converted to cryptocurrency trading users, indicating a clear user stratification between RWA and crypto trading demand.

According to The Block, K33 research director Vetle Lunde stated that by the end of the first half of 2026, the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund's indirect Bitcoin exposure through holdings in companies such as Strategy, Metaplanet, MARA, Coinbase, Block, and Tesla has risen to 11,549 BTC, a record high valued at approximately $725 million. This exposure grew by 21.2% in the first half of the year and by 60.5% over the past year, marking the sixth consecutive reporting period of increase.Among these, Strategy accounts for nearly 86% of the fund's indirect Bitcoin exposure, corresponding to approximately 9,914 BTC. As of June 30, the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund held about 1.17% of Strategy's shares, valued at $357.3 million at that time. Metaplanet corresponds to 671 BTC, MARA corresponds to 421 BTC, and Coinbase, Block, and Tesla correspond to 183 BTC, 120 BTC, and 97 BTC, respectively.K33 pointed out that this exposure is likely not the result of the fund actively allocating to Bitcoin, but rather an indirect effect of its broadly diversified investment portfolio. Currently, the related Bitcoin exposure accounts for about 0.03% of the fund's total assets.In addition, the fund has also gained indirect ETH exposure through the Ethereum treasury company BitMine for the first time. As of June 30, it held 6.15 million shares of BitMine, valued at $88.3 million, accounting for about 1.16% of the company's shares; based on BitMine's current ETH holdings, this corresponds to an indirect exposure of approximately 67,340 ETH.

According to The Defiant, the Government Pension Fund Global of Norway disclosed in its quarterly holdings document for the period ending June 30 that it holds 6,151,062 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), with a market value of approximately $81.87 million.The fund did not list BitMine in its holdings report as of December 31, indicating this is a new disclosure, and the specific purchase time and cost have not been announced. It is reported that the total size of the fund reached 22.683 trillion Norwegian kroner as of June 30, with 72.1% allocated to stocks.

Investment firm Neoclassic Capital announced on X that it will co-lead the seed round financing for the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) data platform RWA.xyz. RWA.xyz has not yet disclosed further details about this round of financing.RWA.xyz is building an industry-standard data platform and real data source for tokenized real-world assets. According to RootData, previous investors in RWA.xyz also include Nascent, Archetype, The Venture Dept., and others.

Forward Industries has resumed purchasing SOL. As the largest holder of Solana, the company acquired an additional 254,000 SOL at an average price of $75 between July and August 3, bringing its total SOL holdings to over 7.8 million.