Strengths

• The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which safeguards more than $114 trillion in securities, processed its first live production trades involving tokenized securities. The initiative brought together more than two dozen major financial institutions, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Vanguard, demonstrating that blockchain-based assets can integrate with Wall Street’s existing market infrastructure.
• Citadel Securities, one of the world’s largest market makers, invested $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing the exchange at $20 billion in its first institutional funding round. The investment will support expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives, highlighting growing confidence among…