Tokenization

• [New] Hasbro, like Mattel, said it saw substantial opportunity in non-fungible tokens for some of its collectible brands, looking to tap into the explosive growth in popularity of the digital asset. / Reuters
• Trading of stock tokens will follow traditional exchange hours and is not available for residents in Mainland China, Turkey and other restricted jurisdictions. / Finance Magnates | Financial and business news
• The total market for all digital assets, including crypto-securities, in Germany is expected to increase to almost EUR 400 billion between 2021 and 2024, which means it will be more than tripled. / BankingHub
• Operating as an esports streaming protocol, Theta Network will introduce building blocks that will give users access to a marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens. / Crypto News Flash
• A series of animated Curve branded figures will go under the virtual hammer as Non-Fungible Tokens today, with online bids invited from all over the world. / Fintech Finance
• AABB is releasing a freshly minted mine-to-token gold-backed cryptocurrency and expects to become a world-wide standard of exchange that is secured and trusted with gold backing, an outstanding quality relative to other cryptocurrencies. / Micro Cap Daily
• The top cryptocurrency and digital token will receive wide acceptance by currency exchanges, global banks, as well as other payment service providers, e-commerce merchants, and corporate houses. / Platinum Crypto Academy
• The use of persistent tokens is increasing in remote payments, accounting for 52% of tokenized remote mobile payment transactions in 2025 compared with 41% in 2020. / NFCW
• Users will be able to buy Atari's NFTs with the Atari token (ATRI), the Bondly token, and a number of major cryptocurrencies. / NYPress
• The Securities and Exchange Commission's December enforcement action against Ripple Labs, synonymous with the XRP token, indicates the risks facing some of the crypto market and the advantages of Bitcoin. / Bloomberg Crypto Outlook
• Theta expects deeper strategic collaboration in distributed ledger technology development with Sony in areas like decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens. / CoinTelegraph
• Flovtec, a Swiss technology company specialising in providing liquidity to tokens and exchanges in the growing digital asset space, said that it will give the digital asset ecosystem full control over market making. / Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News - FintechNewsCH
• Bankia announced the presentation of a digital payments project in alliance with Finweg for the implementation of a new digital payments platform that will be based on a transaction tokenization model with blockchain technology. / Business Insider
• In Japan, SBI has partnered with SMBC to develop the Osaka Digital Exchange, which will provide a secondary market for common stock (from 2022) and security tokens (after 2023). / Ledger Insights - enterprise blockchain
• Point95 Global will offer market-making services to securities listed on Fusang Exchange while Proxicoin, recently launched by PCN Media, will be among the first security tokens to be listed and traded on Fusang Exchange. / Asset Servicing Times
• A surge in the price of the world's best-known digital token has been accompanied by convictions abroad in scams tied to digital platforms and speculation that authorities globally will seek tighter controls. / Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• Capital market services license under the SFA: If a person is operating a primary platform in Singapore in relation to digital tokens which constitutes capital market products, it will be considered as a regulated activity under the SFA. / Mondaq
• The ability to take digital currency grows a company's sales opportunity in global markets where taking credit cards is not feasible, among other benefits. / PYMNTS.com
• As the Wyoming Division of Banking notes on its website, [i] t is likely that many SPDIs will focus heavily on digital assets, such as virtual currencies, digital securities and utility tokens. / DLA Piper
• Google Pay has partnered with VISA for the rollout of tokenization across its platform that will enable users to safely transact with their debit or credit cards. / Time4Education
• Through the fractionalization and tokenization of assets, blockchain technology reduces the minimum investment size, which opens new opportunities previously inaccessible to most Americans. / Black Enterprise

Last updated: 02 May 2021