J.P. Morgan’s two tokenized money market funds held a combined $871.2 million on Ethereum as of July 15. JLTXX accounted for approximately $769.1 million, or 88.3% of the total, while the earlier MONY fund held roughly $102.1 million.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation began a limited-production tokenization trial on July 15, converting selected U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds and Treasury securities already held at its depository into blockchain-based tokens.
JPMorgan has lowered its earnings estimates for Circle and Coinbase, arguing that their revised USDC arrangement with Hyperliquid exposes a structural weakness in the stablecoin’s distribution model.
Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz says crypto's tape has turned, with trading volumes up 20-30% month-over-month and the Robinhood Chain launch showing what happens when a broker with 15 million US customers walks into DeFi.
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.



