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DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation) CEO Frank La Salla stated that the company is collaborating with multiple high-performance Layer 1 blockchains to explore migrating complex corporate actions such as dividend payments and tender offers to on-chain processing.La Salla mentioned at the Consensus 2026 conference that most blockchains still lack efficiency in handling corporate actions, while DTCC needs to process millions of dividend payments daily, thus requiring support from Layer 1 networks with high throughput and stability. DTCC is one of the core infrastructures of the U.S. capital markets, handling approximately $20 trillion in U.S. Treasury and securities transactions daily. The organization plans to launch a tokenized securities platform test in July this year, aiming for a broader rollout in October.La Salla believes that "tokenized collateral" could become the first large-scale institutional application scenario for blockchain. In the future, Asian institutions could even access dollar liquidity in real-time through on-chain collateral during New York's Sunday hours. However, he also warned that blockchain still faces issues such as scalability, liquidity fragmentation, and risk management, especially the efficiency of "net settlement" in traditional financial systems, which remains difficult to replicate in a decentralized environment.

According to CoinDesk, renowned investor Kevin O'Leary stated at the Consensus conference that before the U.S. Congress passes a clear regulatory framework for digital assets, the tokenization craze on Wall Street is essentially just hype, and Bitcoin and tokenized assets remain too risky for large institutional investors to invest in. He pointed out that once the U.S. establishes a formal legal framework, everything will change.Using stablecoins as an example, O'Leary mentioned that after the passage of the GENIUS Act, stablecoins would be "almost immediately" adopted, reducing cross-border payment times from three days to a few minutes, significantly lowering costs while ensuring compliance and transparency. O'Leary believes that institutional investors' focus is highly concentrated on Bitcoin and Ethereum, with 97% of the market's value coming from these two assets, and many small-cap tokens have been "eliminated."He stated that the real long-term value lies in blockchain infrastructure, enterprise-level applications, and the energy and data centers that support digital assets. He claimed that electricity is more valuable than Bitcoin, and the biggest opportunity is to find the blockchain platform standards that large enterprises will adopt for applications such as logistics, contract management, or inventory systems.

According to CoinDesk, Angus Fletcher, head of digital assets at State Street Bank, stated at the Consensus Miami conference that in light of the recent surge in DeFi attack incidents, institutional investors are looking for improvements in blockchain security. He pointed out that the young crypto industry needs to find solutions now before trillions of dollars in real-world assets are put on-chain.Fletcher believes that the interoperability between blockchains needs to be clearly defined and understood, and institutional clients need to understand the legal ownership and rights of cross-chain tokens. Dennis Bree, head of Morpho, stated that April could be the month with the most hacker attacks in DeFi history, and regulators are conducting more due diligence on the security of collateralized assets.

State Street has partnered with Galaxy to launch the on-chain liquidity fund SWEEP, allowing investors to "one-click transfer" stablecoins into yield-bearing tokenized assets, achieving 24/7 on-chain cash management.The fund will initially be deployed on Solana, with plans to expand to Stellar and Ethereum in the future, and integrate infrastructure such as Chainlink. SWEEP is aimed at qualified investors and is positioned similarly to BlackRock's BUIDL and other products, providing bond-like yields through an on-chain structure, representing the latest exploration of the integration of traditional asset management and blockchain.

According to CoinDesk, Galaxy Digital and State Street have jointly launched the tokenized fund "State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP)," which migrates cash management and yield products to the blockchain network, achieving 24/7 on-chain liquidity management.This product allows institutional investors to allocate stablecoins into the fund, maintaining redemption capabilities while earning yields, breaking through the trading hour restrictions of traditional money market funds. The fund is initially built on Solana and plans to expand to Ethereum and Stellar. Galaxy is responsible for the tokenization infrastructure, Anchorage Digital provides custody services, and State Street manages the underlying traditional securities assets.This launch continues the trend of institutional exploration of on-chain cash management. Previously, BlackRock's BUIDL fund validated institutional demand for tokenized U.S. Treasury products, driving continuous capital inflow into on-chain fixed income assets. Currently, State Street manages over $5 trillion in assets, and this move is seen as an important step towards fully tokenizing traditional financial products, while also marking the gradual extension of on-chain financial infrastructure into the institutional cash management sector.

According to the Wall Street Journal, citing informed sources, Anthropic plans to jointly invest $1.5 billion with several Wall Street institutions to establish a joint venture, with Anthropic, Blackstone Group, and Hellman & Friedman each contributing $300 million, and Goldman Sachs contributing $150 million.The company will help private equity firms and their portfolio companies integrate and adopt AI tools to enhance operational efficiency. Informed sources said the announcement is expected to be made as early as Monday.

According to CoinDesk, Figure Technology Solutions CEO Mike Cagney stated that the company is trying to leverage blockchain to reconstruct the traditional credit market infrastructure and deeply integrate real-world assets (RWA), securitization, and DeFi.Data shows that Figure's loan issuance in March this year exceeded $1 billion for the first time in a single month, with a total lending volume of $2.9 billion in the first quarter, which annualizes to about $12 billion. Cagney stated that the company's goal is to reduce intermediaries in the securitization, lending, and stock lending markets through on-chain processes, lowering costs and enhancing liquidity.Currently, Figure has launched the yield-bearing stablecoin YLDS and has launched on-chain credit vault products on networks like Solana, allowing users to invest in tokenized credit assets or use them as collateral for borrowing. The company also plans to expand into the Ethereum ecosystem and explore stock tokenization and on-chain securities lending.Cagney believes that the true value of blockchain lies not in "putting everything on-chain," but in reconstructing the financial abstraction layer. "Financial assets such as loans, securities, and equity are naturally suited for on-chain processes, and the entire financial infrastructure may be rewritten as a result."

According to Gelonghui, Buffett responded in an exclusive interview with CNBC regarding "Berkshire currently holding about $380 billion in cash, and the market is highly concerned about why it has not made large-scale acquisitions or investments": the prices are too high, and there are too few targets.Buffett stated, "Now is not our ideal environment for deploying cash for Berkshire." He emphasized that the company has the right management team to selectively choose opportunities: "Sometimes we do nothing, but sometimes we are very active."When discussing the current macro stock market environment, Buffett used the metaphor of "a church with a casino" to describe the speculative atmosphere on Wall Street. People can move between the church and the casino, with more people in the church than in the casino, but the casino has become very attractive to people.He pointed out, "If you are buying and selling single-day options, that is not investing, nor is it speculation; it is outright gambling." Referring to a recent case where a U.S. soldier used confidential information about military operations in Venezuela to profit $400,000 in the prediction market, he said: unless one knows when we will strike into Venezuela like that person, no one can explain why they would buy a one-day option; the number of such occurrences is astonishing.We have never encountered a crowd with a greater propensity for 'gambling' than now. Buffett further noted that the surge in gambling enthusiasm does not necessarily mean the market will collapse, but it will lead to a long-term high price for many assets.

According to The Block, asset management company WisdomTree disclosed that its cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded a net inflow of $137 million, a significant improvement compared to a net outflow of $89 million during the same period in 2025.As of the end of the first quarter, WisdomTree's total assets under management (AUM) rose to $152.6 billion, an increase of over 30% year-on-year, with strong capital inflows in the U.S. and European market products being the main driving force.Its cryptocurrency ETP AUM grew to approximately $1.8 billion in the first three months, a year-on-year increase of 15%. However, affected by the decline in digital asset prices, the initial AUM of about $2.2 billion for cryptocurrency ETPs shrank by approximately $596 million during the quarter.WisdomTree also stated that it has launched new cryptocurrency ETP products tracking Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana this quarter, and continues to advance the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA). Related products have been deployed on Ethereum and multiple chains such as Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Optimism, as well as the Stellar network.

The prediction market platform Polymarket has partnered with blockchain analysis company Chainalysis to monitor trading activities and enforce market rules in response to concerns about insider trading and market integrity.The two parties announced on Thursday that Chainalysis will provide a comprehensive set of tools, including investigative software and on-chain monitoring systems, to identify suspicious behavior. Its models are designed to detect patterns consistent with "trading based on non-public information." This move comes as regulatory scrutiny of prediction markets is increasing. Critics argue that platforms like Polymarket may be susceptible to influence from insiders (such as political staff or corporate employees) who place "information advantage bets" before information is made public. Such behavior is illegal and heavily regulated in traditional financial markets, but regulatory definitions remain unclear in the crypto prediction market space.Polymarket's response is to enhance the transparency advantages of blockchain. Since all transactions are recorded on-chain, trading activities can be tracked and analyzed post-factum. By overlaying Chainalysis's data tools, the company hopes to identify suspicious transactions in real-time and provide relevant evidence to regulators when necessary.

According to Fortune magazine, the publicly traded cryptocurrency company AI Financial (formerly Alt5 Sigma), linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's family, reached a $43 million deal last week to acquire the cryptocurrency infrastructure company Block Street.Company records show that Block Street was registered in Nevada only in late October. Matthew Morgan, an advisor to AI Financial and also the CEO and largest shareholder of Block Street, stated that he founded the company about 16 months ago. Morgan indicated that the acquisition of Block Street was not a self-dealing transaction.

According to Arkham data, the suspected Block Street team address transferred tokens to the Bybit deposit address (0xEcB8...0D51) in the past two hours, totaling 5 million BSB tokens, with a total value of approximately $3.6534 million.The tokens from the sending address previously originated from the BSB team's multi-signature address. Currently, the circulating supply of BSB is 207.75 million tokens, and the total amount received by this address accounts for about 2.41% of its total circulating supply. BSB is currently priced at $0.7595, with a 24-hour decline of 9.11%, and its circulating market capitalization is approximately $15.78 million.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to withdraw its acquisition of the AI startup Manus, after China banned the deal on national security grounds. Manus is a Singapore-based startup related to China, focused on developing AI agents.Meta completed the acquisition for $2.5 billion last December and has quickly integrated the related technology into its own systems. If the deal is ultimately canceled, both parties will need to separate the integrated technology and systems.

According to a Bloomberg report citing Jefferies, a hacker attack on small crypto projects over the weekend, involving nearly $300 million, and the subsequent $10 billion fund run at the largest decentralized lending platform (the KelpDAO and Aave incident), may weaken Wall Street's interest in blockchain technology.Andrew Moss, an analyst at Jefferies' digital asset research team, pointed out that over the past year, banks, asset management companies, and payment institutions have been developing blockchain products similar to the technology system exploited by North Korean hackers. The report suggests that while such incidents are unlikely to directly impact traditional financial markets, it warns that traditional financial institutions may pause related processes and reassess risks before further advancing blockchain business.

Bloomberg cited a report from Jefferies LLC stating that a hacker attack over the weekend that siphoned nearly $300 million from a small crypto project, along with the resulting $10 billion fund run at the largest decentralized lending platform, may slow Wall Street's interest in blockchain technology.Andrew Moss, an analyst at Jefferies' digital asset research team, pointed out that banks, asset management companies, and payment institutions have been developing blockchain products similar to the technology systems exploited by North Korean hackers over the past year.While the report believes this incident is unlikely to impact traditional financial markets, it warns that traditional financial institutions may pause and reassess the associated risks before further advancing their blockchain initiatives.

Jefferies, a Wall Street investment bank, pointed out that the approximately $293 million attack incident on Kelp DAO exposed critical infrastructure risks, which may prompt traditional financial institutions to reassess the pace of blockchain and tokenization advancement.Jefferies believes that the attackers triggered market sell-offs and liquidity strains by minting uncollateralized tokens and engaging in cross-platform lending. This incident is thought to be related to the Lazarus Group and also highlights the single point of failure issues in the verification mechanisms of cross-chain bridges. As institutions accelerate the tokenization of assets (such as funds, bonds, and deposits), the associated risks may cause some banks and asset management institutions to delay deployment and prioritize examining system security. Especially in scenarios that rely on cross-chain infrastructure, security vulnerabilities could lead to market fragmentation, undermining the practical utility of tokenized assets.Despite short-term confidence being shaken, Jefferies still emphasizes that the long-term trend remains unchanged. Under the backdrop of regulatory advancements and continuous improvements in infrastructure, applications such as stablecoins still have growth potential. However, the industry as a whole is still in the early stages of development and requires time to enhance system robustness.

ChainCatcher reported live that Li Baiwei, Partner at HashKey Tokenisation, John Cahill, Chief Operating Officer of Galaxy Digital Asia, Abdelhamid Bizid, Managing Director of BlackRock, and Min Lin, Managing Director and Head of Global Business Development at Ondo Finance, attended the HK Web3 Feastival roundtable to share insights on "From Wall Street to Blockchain: The Practical Logic and Future Landscape of Global RWA Issuance."The attendees generally agreed that the core value of RWA and asset tokenization is no longer just an innovative narrative at the conceptual level, but a realistic path for upgrading financial market infrastructure. John Cahill stated that blockchain is essentially a superior "underlying pipeline" for financial markets, and in the long run, the ultimate goal of financial markets will be "tokenization of everything"; what truly needs attention is not whether tokenization will happen, but whether market participants have already begun preparing for this endgame.Abdelhamid Bizid pointed out that from the perspective of traditional asset management institutions, the current tokenized products primarily serve clients who do not wish to move funds out of the on-chain ecosystem but want to achieve stable returns and compliant asset allocation tools. BlackRock has seen a clear demand for on-chain yield products and will continue to launch more new products. However, he also emphasized that the real bottleneck in the industry at this stage is not technology, but rather institutional adoption, demand validation, liquidity depth, regulatory clarity, and non-technical barriers such as costs and taxation.Min Lin, drawing from Ondo's practice, stated that the key to tokenized stocks is not just moving U.S. stocks onto the blockchain, but transforming stocks that are originally static in brokerage accounts into programmable financial instruments that can serve as collateral, margin, and lending assets in DeFi, further unlocking capital efficiency. He mentioned that the main demand currently observed by Ondo still comes from retail and crypto-native funds in regions like Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, which find it difficult to directly access the U.S. stock market. This indicates that tokenized stocks at this stage are more like "global asset access tools" rather than mainstream trading venues for institutional funds.

SpaceX will hold a three-day closed-door analyst meeting in the United States this week to promote its business and strategy to Wall Street institutions in preparation for a potential IPO. According to insiders, the company aims to raise about $75 billion, with a valuation possibly reaching $1.75 trillion, with plans to go public as early as June.The meeting will cover SpaceX's Texas Starbase launch site and Tennessee data center project, and participating analysts will need to submit electronic devices to ensure information confidentiality. This roadshow is a key part of the IPO process, and there will be subsequent model presentations to further disclose financial and growth expectations. In addition, the company plans to reserve about 30% of shares for retail investors and expand into global markets. Several Wall Street investment banks have already participated in the underwriting arrangements.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined 78 business partners of Anchorage, including over 30 DeFi protocols, more than 20 blockchain infrastructure projects, as well as various stablecoins and payment settlement networks, covering the complete path from asset issuance to on-chain operations. Represented by institutions like BlackRock, products such as ETFs bring funds into the crypto market, after which Anchorage assumes custody and compliance responsibilities. These assets are then deployed on-chain, participating in liquidity operations and yield generation through DeFi protocols, stablecoin systems, and infrastructure networks. Ultimately, they flow back into the traditional financial system through OTC, trading, and clearing paths. In this process, Anchorage's role is not just "custody," but a key node throughout the entire lifecycle of funds, with its upstream and downstream including crypto-native institutions such as A16z, Blockchain Capital, Electric Capital, and Defiance, as well as DeFi protocols, L1/L2 networks, stablecoins, and clearing and settlement systems, along with fintech companies like AngelList and Series Financial, as well as payment companies and core banking systems. Anchorage's partner strategy emphasizes "key path coverage," ensuring that funds have corresponding infrastructure at every stage. As compliant entry points like ETFs gradually open up, the crypto market shifts towards asset allocation-driven strategies, and bridge-type institutions like Anchorage are moving from the background to the core. Related compilation: [Anchorage Web3 Partner Network Compilation (continuously updated)](https://cn.rootdata.com/Archives/detail/Anchorage%20Crypto%20Business%20Partner?k=NDc1MTgz) Crypto projects actively showcasing their partner networks have become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 project parties to [claim data](https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/submit?ft=claimApply) and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of crypto project ecological maps, nominating Web3 ecological partners for upstream clients such as Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase. **If you wish to nominate your project in future ecological maps, please fill out the [RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping](https://forms.gle/tWArmXcpSfZJkh1r8) form to supplement your important clients and partners.**