Securitize - Page 8

PwC Germany says a system built for debt-buyer EOS with tokenforge, AllUnity and the Stellar Development Foundation cuts a monthly securitisation payout cycle from "30 days or longer" to a single day. Who does what, what is a company claim, and what the announcement leaves out.

French MPs voted 38-37 for a crypto-to-stablecoin swap tax that would apply from 2027. It is a first-reading budget vote, not law, and the Senate must act.

Network upgrades on 8–9 October 2026: the XRP Ledger now lets accounts hand limited powers to other accounts, with one known caveat; Solana cut its target block time from 250 to 200 milliseconds on Friday afternoon UK time; and Sei approved its FlatKV storage migration. What changes for users and builders.

S&P Global agreed to buy smart-contract security firm OpenZeppelin and led an extension of Kaiko's Series B to $110 million. MoonPay agreed an all-stock deal for SEC-registered North Capital that awaits regulatory approval. What the buyers are getting, and what is still unconfirmed.

Between 22 and 24 September six Canadian banks began exploring a CAD tokenised-deposit network, The Clearing House picked Quant for a US network due in the first half of 2027, and IBM connected its Digital Asset Haven to Swift's shared ledger in beta. Banks are building shared rails for bank money on ledgers, and most of it is still at the pilot stage.

In one month UK authorities named collateral mobility as tokenisation's near-term prize and asked about tokenised gold, CFTC staff updated their FAQs on tokenised customer-fund investments, ESMA proposed an optional EU "28th regime" for tokenised securities, and an ICE–OKX venture published a notice under the SEC's Innovation Exemption. What is rule, what is guidance and what is only a proposal.

In one month the Eurosystem launched Pontes to settle tokenised assets in central bank money, Hong Kong priced about HK$20 billion of digital green bonds with tokenised-deposit settlement, and India issued ₹1,025 crore of tokenised corporate bonds settled in wholesale e₹. What each step is, and what is still only planned.

The IMF says tokenised assets are about $65bn and pose limited systemic risk today, but 24/7 trading and automatic liquidations could spread stress faster. Korea plans a tokenised government bond pilot. Spiko raises $90m for tokenised cash funds, OSL tokenises a professional-only stablecoin strategy fund, and Stove's share tokens reach UniswapX.

Samsung Wallet will support USDC transfers on Solana for US Galaxy users from late October, with Coinbase custody; Moody’s has assigned Sky Protocol, issuer of USDS, a B3 rating, its first for a stablecoin protocol. What each step confirms, and what a speculative-grade rating does and does not say.

Kazakhstan’s central bank signs an exploratory MoU with Tether; Binance accepts four tokenised securities as margin collateral at a 50% ratio; GSR commits $100m to Hare’s onchain vaults; Orca and Loopscale merge as Formation. What is confirmed, what is only planned, and what each step does not prove.