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According to Businesswire, Nasdaq-listed company Datavault AI announced its business update for the first quarter of 2026, revealing that the company has signed over $800 million in tokenized contracts, with approximately $100 million in fees expected to be recognized in 2026, achieving about $75 million in new contract scale for the first quarter, further validating institutional demand for RWA (real-world asset) tokenization platforms.In terms of assets and financing, the company has strengthened its balance sheet through a $60 million private placement and an additional $120 million in non-dilutive financing, while advancing the expansion of the SanQtum AI infrastructure platform across the United States, and plans to expand its quantum-secure GPU edge network by the end of 2026, deploying approximately 48,000 GPUs.

Binance announced that due to third-party system maintenance, Binance Alpha tokenized securities trading services are currently in temporary maintenance status, and users are temporarily unable to place orders or conduct transactions.Binance stated that user asset security is not affected, and the platform is actively communicating with the third party to promote service recovery. Users will be notified as soon as the relevant functions are restored.

According to The Block, Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are advancing 24/7 trading, and the U.S. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is promoting tokenized collateral, along with Bullish's acquisition of Equiniti, indicating that the public equity on-chain process may be faster than the market expects.Meanwhile, several Ethereum reserve companies have significantly retreated from their summer 2025 highs, with a noticeable contraction in the market value to net asset value ratio. Chalom mentioned that some companies are under pressure due to prematurely issuing preferred stock or convertible bonds; Sharplink focuses more on equity financing and staking yields while trying to keep the balance sheet simple.He also stated that over the past year and a half, Bitcoin and Ethereum have behaved more like risk assets, but as stablecoins, tokenized assets, DeFi, and AI applications expand on Ethereum, Ethereum may further differentiate from Bitcoin in the long term.

According to Token Terminal data, as of May 13, the total market capitalization of euro stablecoins on-chain reached a historic high of $774.2 million. Ethereum dominates the euro stablecoin ecosystem, accounting for 66.2% of all tokenized euro stablecoins.The growth in the adoption of euro stablecoins reflects the increasing demand in the EU market for blockchain-based fiat currency alternatives, with multiple issuers and public chains competing for market share.

Global financial infrastructure giant DTCC (whose subsidiary processed $47 trillion in securities transactions in 2025) announced on Tuesday that it will integrate Chainlink as the data and orchestration layer for its upcoming tokenized collateral platform.DTCC's Collateral AppChain will utilize the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and its data standards to support eligibility checks, valuations, margin calculations, collateral optimization, and settlement functions, with a target to go live in Q4 2026.Nadine Chakar, DTCC's Global Head of Digital Assets, stated that the goal is to achieve near real-time collateral management between global markets and blockchain through tokenization and distributed ledger technology, operating 24/7. Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov described collateral management as "the killer application that traditional finance has been waiting for." The platform is designed as a shared infrastructure for collateral providers, recipients, managers, third-party agents, and custodians, rather than a bilateral institutional chain. This collaboration continues the foundation of previous partnerships between the two parties, such as in the Smart NAV pilot project.

The regulated securitization trading platform tZERO announced the integration of its tokenized issuance platform into the Aptos network, enabling issuers to directly issue real-world asset (RWA) tokens on this high-performance public chain, further broadening the on-chain path for institutional-grade assets.Aptos is positioned as the underlying network for institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure and is continuously attracting traditional finance and compliant tokenization platforms. Currently, tokenized funds from institutions such as BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are already operating on-chain.With the integration of tZERO, the compliant asset issuance and trading infrastructure on Aptos has been further improved, covering the full chain capabilities from issuance, circulation to settlement.

Bernstein reiterated its "Outperform" rating on Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR) and maintained a target price of $67, implying about a 72% upside from the current stock price of $38.97. Figure's Q1 2026 performance was strong: loan issuance reached $2.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 113%; adjusted revenue was $167 million, a year-on-year increase of 92%, exceeding market expectations by 6%; adjusted EBITDA was $82.7 million, with a profit margin of about 50%, slightly above market expectations. However, the GAAP diluted EPS was $0.18, about 9% below expectations, primarily impacted by $26 million in equity incentive expenses.Bernstein's analysis suggests that this performance should reshape the market's perception of Figure, as it is not a traditional credit company, but rather a "tokenization-driven capital market platform," with core profits coming from network fees and operational leverage, and it maintains a pricing model based on a 25x EBITDA valuation for 2027. Additionally, the tokenization ecosystem continues to expand: the yield-bearing security token YLDS reached $598 million (up 80% quarter-on-quarter); the balance of stock lending products was $368 million (up 79%); and the small business loan segment contributed $6 million in revenue. Figure's current stock price is still not far from the 2025 IPO issue price of $36, but there remains a significant gap from the historical high of $78.

According to Token Terminal data, the tokenized platform xStocks has surpassed a total market capitalization of 100 million USD on Ethereum, growing by approximately 1000% year-to-date, primarily driven by STRCx.In addition, the asset market capitalization of xStocks on the BNB Chain has separately exceeded 30 million USD, mainly consisting of tokenized commodities such as copper, silver, platinum, and palladium.

According to a report by CoinGecko, as of March 31, 2026, the market value of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) reached $19.32 billion, a growth of 256.7% from $5.42 billion at the beginning of 2025. Among them, tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds remain the largest category, with a scale exceeding $10 billion; tokenized commodities increased to $5.55 billion, mainly driven by gold-backed tokens XAUT and PAXG.The report also stated that in the first quarter of 2026, the trading volume of tokenized gold spot reached $90.7 billion, and the trading volume of tokenized stock spot reached $15.1 billion, both exceeding the levels of the corresponding period in 2025. During the same period, the total trading volume of RWA perpetual contracts rose to $524.8 billion.

a16z Crypto stated on platform X that the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) has grown tenfold in two years, now exceeding $30 billion, with nearly half being U.S. Treasury bonds. This growth reflects the increasing demand from institutions to tokenize traditional financial instruments such as government bonds, commodities, stocks, and private credit.Although U.S. Treasury bonds currently dominate, this asset class is expanding, with more categories gaining significant shares in recent quarters.

According to Bloomberg, BlackRock is planning to launch two tokenized money market funds aimed at stablecoin holders, rather than traditional bank account customers. One is a digital share class of the BlackRock Treasury Liquidity Fund, investing in cash, U.S. Treasury securities, and other securities maturing within 93 days, which will be issued on the Ethereum blockchain; the other is the newly established BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Fund, targeting investors managing finances through crypto wallets and stablecoins, which will be launched on multiple blockchains.BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has repeatedly stated that all financial assets will eventually be tokenized. The BUIDL fund launched by BlackRock in 2024 currently has a size of approximately $2.5 billion.

Bitwise Asset Management and Superstate jointly announced that Bitwise will take over the investment management responsibilities of the Superstate Crypto Carry Fund (USCC), which is a tokenized spot arbitrage strategy fund managing approximately $267 million in assets. The transaction is expected to be completed on June 1, and the fund will be renamed the Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund, but will retain its existing code, smart contracts, and token addresses.Bitwise will be responsible for portfolio management, while Superstate will continue to operate the on-chain infrastructure, including tokenized issuance and digital transfer agency services. This is Bitwise's first tokenized fund, and it is the second time this year that Superstate has transferred a fund to a large asset management company, following Invesco's takeover of its $967 million tokenized government bond fund USTB.Superstate is shifting from fund operations to focus on its tokenized infrastructure platform FundOS, and Coinbase Asset Management's Crypto Yield fund was also launched on that platform last week.

Solana's official tweet stated that Bullish has tokenized its entire cap table by putting 151 million shares on-chain to Solana after completing the acquisition of Equiniti.Bullish CEO Thomas Farley announced this news at the Consensus 2026 conference and demonstrated a real-time wallet-to-wallet share transfer live using the Phantom wallet.

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.