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Tokenized real-world assets and equities collateral have reached a monthly high, according to DeFiLlama RWA data, adding to signs that tokenization remains one of crypto’s more durable institutional themes. The milestone comes as investors continue to track the growth of on-chain exposure to traditional assets, including treasuries, credit products, funds, equities, and collateralized instruments. Unlike purely speculative token cycles, real-world asset tokenization is often pitched as a bridge between traditional finance and blockchain settlement. The latest data suggests that bridge is still seeing traffic. For more details, visit the official Defillama platform. TL;DR Tokenized real-world assets and equities collateral reached…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a Travel Rule that will require supervised crypto platforms to collect and transmit information identifying the people or entities behind coin transfers.The regulator announced the rule on Sept. 2, and an associated notification is dated Aug. 25. It takes effect Feb. 27, 2027, after a 180-day implementation period from publication in the Royal Gazette.The lead time lets operators prepare systems for exchanging transfer data, checking transactions, and requesting required information from customers, according to the SEC’s customer-facing Q&A.How crypto transfers will changeSEC-supervised digital-asset operators must collect information on customers and their counterparties when…

Circle president Heath Tarbert told Congress on Sept. 2 that placing digital-dollar infrastructure under US rules could reinforce the network effects that support the currency’s global role. The testimony framed stablecoin and digital asset legislation as a tool of dollar statecraft.US rules can strengthen private dollar-token rails, while official reserve share remains a separate contest. Regulated stablecoins can spread private use of dollar-denominated tokens, change how issuers hold reserves, and add demand for short-term Treasuries.Central banks remain responsible for deciding which currencies they hold. Tarbert acknowledged the boundary, arguing that payment technology cannot substitute for sound economic policy and that…

U.S. spot Solana ETFs recorded $925,000 in net daily inflows as September trading opened, giving SOL markets a fresh regulated-demand signal after a strong August. The figure is modest compared with larger Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF flow days, but it still matters. Solana funds are at an earlier stage of market development, and even smaller daily inflows can help show whether regulated investors are building interest in SOL exposure. For traders, the key point is not the size alone. It is the direction. Money moved into the products at the start of a new month, suggesting that Solana’s institutional access…

CME and ICE told Washington in May that Hyperliquid’s pseudonymous, always-on markets could let sanctioned state actors circumvent enforcement.On Aug. 31, an Arkham analysis reviewed by CoinDesk found that wallets linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group had sold more than $30 million of Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over the prior three weeks.The proceeds were converted into ETH and SOL before funds moved to Kraken, LBank, and KuCoin. The same day, Bloomberg reported that Hyperliquid Labs was in advanced talks with Kraken parent Payward over a regulated US entry point.On paper, the timing could hardly be worse for Hyperliquid. Whether it threatens…

TapTools has abandoned a community $NFT sale intended to help bring its Cardano analytics platform back online after users reacted angrily to its return, with every participant refunded in full. The backlash quickly reached Charles Hoskinson, who responded by sharing a South Park parody of BP’s repeated “we’re sorry” apology. TapTools Pulls Sale After Community Backlash TapTools shut down in June after four years of operating in the Cardano ecosystem. In its announcement then, the team said two co-founders, including its CTO and COO, had left earlier in the year, while its replacement CTO later decided to leave as well.…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to let Wall Street’s official shareholder records move onchain while keeping regulated transfer agents in control.On Sept. 1, the financial regulator proposed its first major overhaul of transfer-agent rules since regulations were adopted in the late 1970s and early 1980s, explicitly allowing blockchain or other distributed-ledger technology to serve as a company’s master securityholder file, or part of it.That would bring tokenized securities deeper into the machinery that determines who legally owns shares, rather than limiting blockchain to a parallel record or digital representation.One recordkeeping transfer agent would still retain exclusive control…

OpenSea has added Solana NFTs to OS2, allowing collectors to browse, buy and sell the network’s digital collectibles through the marketplace. The August 31 launch expands OpenSea’s Solana offering beyond fungible tokens. The company said collectors can use the platform without switching wallets or visiting multiple marketplaces, while Solana creators gain another venue for reaching buyers. OpenSea named Claynosaurz, Mad Lads, Collector Crypt and Phygitals among the collections available at launch. Solana NFTs now sit alongside assets from more than 25 blockchains supported by OpenSea. OS2 Moves Beyond Solana Tokens OpenSea’s OS2 release in May 2025 provided fungible-token trading across…

The narrative that NFTs died sometime in 2023 makes for a clean headline, but it confuses a price correction in speculative art collectibles with the technology itself. Monthly trading volumes bottomed out in mid-2023 and then climbed back steadily. By October 2025, $NFT trading volume hit $546 million in a single month with 10.1 million individual sales, an annual high. The collapse was real for profile-picture speculation, yet the underlying standard, a way to record verifiable ownership of a unique asset on a public ledger, never stopped working. What changed is who uses NFTs and why. The buyer paying six…

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $142 million in net inflows as September trading opened, giving Bitcoin traders a positive flow signal after the previous session’s outflow broke a multi-day streak. The inflow shows that regulated Bitcoin demand remains active, even after a choppy end to August. ETF flows have become one of the cleanest indicators of traditional-market appetite for BTC, and a positive start to September gives the market something fresh to watch. It does not mean demand is guaranteed to continue. But it does show that the outflow narrative did not immediately become a deeper trend. For more details,…