X2C.HK has launched the world’s first “NASDAQ for Creative Assets” dedicated to AI-generated short dramas. The platform introduces a Web3 model where entertainment assets become tradeable IP tokens. It enables creators to produce professional-quality short films using AI and tokenize them for global trading. Audiences can purchase, hold, and trade IP tokens that represent ownership stakes in entertainment properties. Unlike traditional streaming platforms, X2C.HK leverages blockchain technology to transform viewers into token holders who directly participate in content value appreciation. Each AI-generated short film operates with its own IP token that trades 24/7 on integrated exchanges. X2C.HK addresses a fundamental gap in the entertainment ecosystem by creating tradeable ownership of intellectual property itself. The platform leverages partnership with Giggle’s decentralized creative asset infrastructure, providing proven liquidity mechanisms and automated buyback systems that traditional entertainment platforms cannot offer. The platform combines cutting-edge AI content generation with robust Web3 infrastructure, producing broadcast-quality short films across multiple genres. The Web3 entertainment market is projected to reach $40 billion by 2030, driven by increasing demand for creator ownership and audience participation. X2C.HK’s model democratizes entertainment ownership by enabling anyone to purchase IP tokens and participate in content success. The platform’s Web3 infrastructure is powered by strategic partnership with Giggle, providing robust blockchain-based tokenization and trading capabilities.
Ondo Finance upgrades Swap API, enabling users to trade 100+ tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs on Ethereum thereby enhancing RWA liquidity in DeFi
1inch has partnered with Ondo Finance to improve its Swap API, allowing users to trade tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) alongside native crypto assets. This collaboration aims to address liquidity issues that have hindered RWA adoption in decentralized finance (DeFi). The update is available through 1inch’s dApp, wallets, and various partner integrations. The partnership aims to make tokenized RWAs as accessible as native cryptocurrencies, bridging the gap between traditional finance and DeFi. Ondo Finance’s tokenization of real-world assets has enabled 1inch to offer tokenized RWAs through its platform, allowing users to access up to 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs on Ethereum, including non-U.S. investors. This expansion of the ecosystem’s reach is part of 1inch’s broader mission to democratize finance. Several platforms, including Trust Wallet and Bitget, have already integrated the new RWA Swap API, allowing users to trade tokenized RWAs using USDC and accessing traditional assets directly from their wallets. This integration underscores 1inch’s efforts to create a unified DeFi ecosystem and sets the stage for future innovation in decentralized trading.
Ondo Global Markets offers 100+ tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Ethereum for non-US investors with 24/7 trading and planned multi-chain expansion
Ondo Finance and the Ondo Foundation have launched Ondo Global Markets, offering over 100 tokenized US stocks and ETFs on-chain for non-US investors through Ethereum. The platform aims to expand to over 1,000 assets by the end of 2025 and will soon support BNB Chain and Solana via LayerZero-powered interoperability. The service provides access to tokenized versions of notable stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, and the QQQ ETF, backed by securities held at US-registered broker-dealers. The tokens can be minted and redeemed 24/7, allowing investors to move between wallets, crypto exchanges, and decentralized finance protocols. The tokens are fully transferable, peer-to-peer, and compatible with infrastructure from partners like BitGo, Ledger, Chainlink, OKX Wallet, and others. The ONDO token price has shown notable activity in the crypto markets, with the ONDO price trading at $0.97 on September 3, 2025. The platform follows a wave of tokenized stock rollouts in 2025, with interest from DeFi developers and institutional investors aiming to access traditional securities with blockchain-enabled liquidity and transferability.
Seturion by Boerse Stuttgart unifies fragmented European tokenized asset settlement; supporting public/private blockchains and central bank money to reduce settlement cost by upto 90%
Boerse Stuttgart is rolling out Seturion, a pan-European, blockchain-based platform for the settlement of tokenized assets, within and across national borders. Available to banks, brokers, trading venues, and tokenization platforms, The German exchange says Seturion will make the settlement of transactions within any asset class significantly faster and more cost-efficient. The modular settlement solution supports tokenized assets on public and private blockchains as well as cash settlement against central bank money and on-chain cash. Successfully tested as part of the ECB blockchain trials with leading European banks, Seturion is already in use at BX Digital, the Finma regulated DLT trading facility in Switzerland. Boerse Stuttgart says all trading venues in Europe can connect to the settlement facility and make it available to market participants via their existing connections. Seturion’s leadership team will be headed by Dr. Lidia Kurt said, “With Seturion, market participants across Europe can tap into new business opportunities around tokenized assets. Our partners benefit from significant cost savings in settlement of up to 90 percent. We have been building our unique infrastructure for several years. With Seturion, we are now leveraging this infrastructure to scale across Europe.”
Fairmint launches Observer Nodes on Canton Network, enabling near real-time regulatory oversight of tokenized equity with privacy protections and immutable audit trails
Fairmint has launched Observer Nodes for Onchain Equity on the Canton Network. The initiative delivers transparency, accountability and regulatory visibility into equity moving onchain while preserving privacy. Observer Nodes provides the privacy protections companies and individuals require while maintaining the regulatory transparency that ensures market integrity. Observers will access read-only automated tools directly from their active nodes on the network, without permission to view personally identifiable information and can flag when potential violations occur. This approach preserves confidentiality for compliant activity while ensuring regulatory authorities can access material information to maintain fair and orderly markets during investigations. Allowing Observer Nodes transforms compliance from reactive enforcement to proactive monitoring. The technology implements protocol-level standardization with immutable audit trails and programmatic compliance enforcement, which are core elements of Fairmint’s seven-point regulatory modernization framework. This positions global capital markets to lead next-generation securities infrastructure while maintaining enhanced investor protections through real-time violation detection and automated regulatory reporting.
Webisoft’s AI-powered no-code platform builds and deploys Web3 apps with wallet integration and prebuilt contracts for NFTs, DAOs, DeFi, and identity
Webisoft has launched Web3Fast, an AI-powered platform that makes blockchain application development accessible to a wide range of users, including startups, enterprises, and independent creators. Web3Fast is designed to accelerate Web3 adoption without requiring deep technical knowledge. The platform offers a no-code/low-code environment supported by an intelligent AI assistant, allowing users to design and deploy on-chain applications, integrate wallets, and utilize prebuilt smart contract templates for common use cases like NFTs, DAOs, tokenization, decentralized finance, and digital identity. The platform enables projects to move from concept to launch in a fraction of the traditional time. Web3Fast is currently in beta for selected partners, with a wider rollout expected in the coming quarter. The platform is chain-agnostic, security-focused, and business-ready, making it suitable for experimentation and enterprise adoption at scale.
BBVA chooses Ripple’s Metaco‑born custody to run in‑house, MiCA‑compliant crypto services for retail clients in Spain, starting with bitcoin and ether trading and secure storage
Ripple is expanding its banking partnerships in Europe through a new agreement with BBVA in Spain. The deal will see BBVA integrate Ripple’s digital asset custody technology into its recently launched retail service for trading and holding bitcoin and ether. The move comes as European banks adapt to the Market in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, which sets a framework for offering digital asset services across the EU. “Now that MiCA is established, the region’s banks are emboldened to launch the digital asset offerings that their customers are asking for,” said Cassie Craddock, Ripple’s managing director for Europe. Ripple Custody was born out of the blockchain firm’s acquisition of Swiss crypto custody specialist Metaco, which had signed up BBVA. Francisco Maroto, BBVA’s head of digital assets, said the integration allows the bank to “directly provide an end-to-end custody service” with the security customers expect from a major financial institution. The partnership extends Ripple’s prior work with BBVA, which already uses its custody technology in Switzerland and Turkey. For Ripple, Spain represents another foothold in Europe’s regulated digital asset market. Ripple holds more than 60 regulatory licenses globally. The deal signals a gradual shift in how traditional banks approach crypto. Instead of relying on third-party providers, institutions like BBVA are opting to build in-house services using established infrastructure providers.
KuCoin’s $ART token brings AI‑driven luxury RWA valuation and staking governance to tokenized art, watches, wine and cars
KuCoin is set to introduce the $ART token, native to LiveArt, on September 9, 2025, on the BASE-ERC20 network. This token will enable the tokenization of $10 trillion in luxury assets using AI, aiming to make high-valued collectibles accessible to a broader audience. The tokenization market is estimated to be worth $16 billion by 2030, indicating significant growth potential. LiveArt’s integration of AI and blockchain technology addresses traditional real-world asset (RWA) market challenges, such as subjective valuation and transparency. Machine learning models will help in real-time asset valuation and market trend prediction, providing fair and accurate pricing. $ART staking will enable token holders to vote on assets curation and protocol upgrades, fostering a more democratic and decentralized governance structure. The token’s listing on BASE-ERC20 will allow for quick and efficient transactions, enhancing its utility and appeal to investors. However, investors should remain cautious due to potential initial price booms and regulatory oversight.
Only about six stablecoins exceed $1B, with most subscale where 5% reserve yields barely fund compliance and security, jeopardizing payment rails, treasury and customer balances
As USD-pegged stablecoins increasingly flood the marketplace competing for users, liquidity splinters across platforms and may prevent most from ever achieving operationally effective adoption. As a result, countless stablecoins, whether privately issued or state-backed, are coming face to face with a brutally simple business model challenge: if circulation doesn’t reach scale, issuers cannot generate enough revenue from their reserve assets to cover operational costs. For financial executives evaluating payment integrations or treasury strategies, this dynamic should set off alarms. The situation grows more precarious when yields fall, as they inevitably might. The fragmentation of the stablecoin market matters because liquidity is self-reinforcing. A coin that’s widely used in trading pairs, accepted across exchanges and integrated into payment rails attracts more users. The inverse is also true: illiquid stablecoins languish in obscurity, unable to build the velocity required for sustainable revenue. For CFOs and payment firms, this creates risk at the integration layer. Choosing to accept or settle in a subscale stablecoin exposes the firm to the possibility of abrupt issuer retrenchment, de-pegging events or simply a business model that fails quietly when reserves can no longer fund operations. Many firms are weighing whether to settle cross-border payments, manage treasury liquidity or offer customer accounts denominated in stablecoins. The irony is that the very attribute stablecoins promise around stability depends less on cryptography or regulatory oversight than on something far more mundane: scale economics. Without sufficient user base and circulation, the math simply doesn’t work. Even if reserves are fully collateralized, an issuer unable to fund compliance or security is a weak link. At the same time, holding multiple stablecoins might spread regulatory risk but can also dilute liquidity and expose firms to subscale issuers with fragile business models. The viability of a stablecoin can be as much a question of sustainable business modeling as it is of collateral management.
Itaú Asset launched a dedicated crypto division to scale regulated products, adding to a Bitcoin ETF, index fund, and pension fund totaling $156 M in assets
Brazil’s largest private bank Itaú has established a specialized unit within its asset management arm, Itaú Asset, to develop cryptocurrency investment products, according to a report by Valor Globo. Itaú Asset has appointed João Marco Cunha, formerly managing director at crypto asset manager Hashdex (AUM $1.5bn), to head the new division. The move signals the institution’s commitment to building out its cryptocurrency offerings as demand grows in the Brazilian market. The bank currently manages three regulated cryptocurrency products with combined net assets of R$850 million ($156m). These include a Bitcoin exchange traded fund, the Itaú Bitcoin Index unit trust fund and the Itaú Flexprev Bitcoin pension fund. Through its “íon Itaú” investment platform, customers can also directly trade ten cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and the USDC stablecoin.