Tokenized assets became the most-listed token category on centralized exchanges in the first half of 2026, taking 18.8% of all new listings against 6.6% across the whole of 2025, according to CryptoRank data published July 11.

Swift announced on July 9 that its blockchain-based ledger is ready for initial use, with 17 banks from six continents preparing to pilot live cross-border payments using tokenised deposits.

BNB Chain published its H2 2026 technical roadmap on July 8, targeting another doubling of mainnet throughput even as BSC DEX volume cooled 9.18% week-over-week to $4.35 billion.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have entered a multi-year agreement through 2027 to transition blockchain-based digital payments from experimental trials to a permanent, standardized institutional capability.

After Vitalik Buterin published his "Lean Ethereum" roadmap on July 4, he has now revealed one concrete piece of it: a technical redesign of how Ethereum tracks and verifies its validators.

Kraken has taken tokenized stocks a step closer to behaving like the collateral that underpins traditional finance.

The IMF warns that tokenization eliminates critical settlement buffers, prompting a shift toward "Programmable Compliance" within institutional financial infrastructure.

Donald Trump frames U.S. crypto leadership as a critical geopolitical race against China, while the SEC moves to modernize regulations to secure that dominance.

Grayscale's head of research laid out where the firm sees value in a beaten-down market, and his answers are more measured than a simple "buy everything."

Speaking with Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao offers a deliberately long-term lens and makes the case that this is a routine cycle, not a crisis, and that this one is built on firmer ground than any before it.

The company that owns the New York Stock Exchange is building a joint venture with crypto exchange OKX, aiming to connect 120 million crypto users to regulated traditional markets through a single licensed entity.

Coinbase has opened trading on perpetual futures tied to Anthropic and OpenAI, letting eligible traders outside the US take a position on what two of the most closely watched AI companies might be worth, before either has gone public.