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BREAKING: DTCC moves tokenised securities into live trading, marking a milestone for Wall Street's blockchain push

Wall Street just tokenized its own stocks. Properly.

Not a wrapper. Not a price tracker. We’re talking about the real thing.

On Wednesday, the DTCC (the plumbing behind almost every US stock trade, with $114 trillion in securities under custody) ran its first live production trades of tokenised stocks, ETFs and Treasuries.

Around 40 firms took part. JPMorgan, Goldman, BlackRock, Vanguard.

JPMorgan tokenized part of its QQQ holdings, then posted the tokens as margin collateral at CME. SPY got tokenized too. So did Treasuries.

DTCC's tokens are "digital twins" - same legal ownership, same dividends, same governance rights, convertible back to normal shares whenever you like.

Cast your mind back over the last month…

Backpack's tokenized SpaceX. Coinbase's tokenized stocks. Robinhood's Stock Tokens, which are literally debt securities that give you exposure and no ownership at all.

Crypto spent a year selling tokenised stocks that weren't actually stocks.

The incumbent just did it for real, on its own rails, with the SEC's blessing.

We've watched everyone race to become the "everything exchange" - Coinbase, Robinhood building its own chain, the NYSE-OKX venture. The assumption was crypto rails would eat Wall Street's lunch.

Instead, Wall Street's absorbing the tech and keeping the lunch.

But temper the excitement…

One analyst put it bluntly: this "validates that it's possible. It doesn't demonstrate that demand is there." The full service doesn't launch until October.

And BlackRock's own numbers tell the story. Its digital assets under management just fell 40% to $49 billion, even while its CFO talks up tokenising Treasury funds, ETFs and private markets.

Meanwhile in Washington…

Trump sits down this afternoon with Senators Lummis and Moreno to hash out the ethics provision blocking the CLARITY Act.

Blind trusts are on the table. No Democrats invited, as of last night.

That meeting decides whether crypto gets its rules this year.

Wall Street's building the rails regardless. 🚀

OpenAI and Anthropic could be two of the biggest AI IPOs Wall Street has seen in years.

But investors don’t have to wait for those names to hit the public markets to get exposure to the AI boom.

MarketBeat’s 7 AI Stocks to Buy Now report reveals 7 publicly traded companies already positioned to benefit as the next wave of AI investment moves beyond the private model providers.

These are the stocks investors can buy today, before the IPO crowd rushes in.

See the 7 stocks

Live on CNBC, Anthony Pompliano just delivered the bluntest line of the drawdown. And it lands on anyone who's been shaken out.

Pompliano is the CEO of ProCap Financial, a public Bitcoin treasury company, and one of the most recognisable investors in the space.

Here's what he said:

His position first, because it sets up everything else.

He didn't trim. He didn't hedge. Both personally and corporately, he used the entire 50% correction to accumulate.

Then came the line that cuts.

That's the whole test. Not a prediction. A diagnosis.

If your thesis is fixed supply, structural institutional demand, and relentless fiat debasement, then a new all-time high inside 3 years isn't a bold call. It's the base case.

It's what the asset does.

So if you're holding Bitcoin and you don't believe that, the problem isn't the market. It's that you never actually understood the thing you bought.

Every seller in this drawdown handed their coins to someone who did.

Know what you own. Or someone who does will take it from you. 🧠

Today we’ll be checking in on the amount of Ethereum available for sale on exchanges.

Here’s how to interpret this metric:

15.40 million ETH on exchanges. Down from 15.50 million two weeks ago.

The squeeze is back on.

Balances popped to around 15.55 million in early July, then rolled straight back over - landing at 15.40 million, a fresh low for this stretch. That early-month bounce got fully unwound, and then some.

Zoom out and it's the same story that's run all year. ETH on exchanges has staircased lower since last August, from north of 21 million down to 15.4 million today. Every bounce so far has been sold into and given back. This one's no different.

Less ETH on exchanges means less supply sitting ready to sell. The float keeps tightening, and this fortnight's dip to a new local low says the year-long drain hasn't run out of steam.

Next print tells us whether 15.4 million holds as the floor… or just the next step down. 🐳

US Treasury Freezes $131 Million in Iran-Linked Crypto Wallets. OFAC sanctioned addresses tied to Iran’s central bank and armed forces, while Tether locked four Tron wallets.

Base creator Jesse Pollak pivots after admitting social strategy failed. Pollak handed the Base app to Cobie so he can refocus the network on trading, stablecoin payments, and global finance.

Stanford study says 5-minute Bitcoin prediction markets enable settlement manipulation. Researchers found Polymarket’s five-minute BTC contracts can reward end-of-window price manipulation.

Ostium pauses trading after apparent $18 million vault exploit. The perp DEX halted trading after an oracle-related attack drained roughly $18 million.

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Trivia Answer: Creating a blockchain-based token that represents rights or ownership linked to the asset. 🥳

Tokenisation can put claims on assets such as bonds, funds, property, or shares onto blockchain rails. The token represents the linked rights; it does not remove the asset's legal or financial rules.

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