Urano

1/ Urano is officially coming on @Arbitrum 🪐 We’re proud to share that we have been selected for the Arbitrum New Protocol and Ideas 3.0 Grant by the @arbitrumdao_gov. This grant represents a key milestone in our mission to bring transparent, compliant, and accessible Real-World Asset tokenization on-chain — and the Arbitrum ecosystem is the ideal foundation to make this vision a reality. Arbitrum Everywhere.

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$URANO Token Generation Event Goes Live March 20 on @arbitrum. Final preparations underway.

The strongest RWA ecosystems won’t just tokenize assets. They’ll connect: - Infrastructure - Governance - Participation - User access Into one onchain experience.

Tokenization only matters when access gets easier.

gUrano 🪐 Better rails create better markets.

Which RWA segment has the strongest near-term potential?

GM RWAers 🪐 Here are this week’s key developments across tokenized equity expansion, institutional exchange participation, stablecoin and tokenization infrastructure growth, tokenized commodities, shifting RWA adoption across chains, institutional credit entering DeFi, and ecosystem-backed stablecoins. @MEXC_Official and @OndoFinance Expand Tokenized U.S. Stock Offering MEXC and Ondo Finance expanded their strategic partnership by introducing a ninth phase of tokenized U.S. equities, adding 17 new spot trading pairs issued as ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum and denominated in USDT. With this expansion, MEXC now offers 32 tokenized stocks to its user base of more than 40 million users across 170 countries. To accelerate adoption and liquidity, the platform is running a 30-day zero-fee trading campaign for the newly listed pairs. This reflects a broader shift where tokenized equities are increasingly being distributed through global crypto exchanges, making traditional stock exposure accessible through blockchain rails. @NYSE Parent ICE Invests in @okx Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, invested in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation. The deal includes a board seat for ICE and a partnership to explore trading tokenized NYSE-listed stocks and derivatives on the OKX platform. The move highlights how traditional financial infrastructure operators are increasingly positioning themselves within the tokenized asset ecosystem rather than treating it as a competing system. ADI Foundation Partners With @chainlink for Stablecoin and Tokenization Infrastructure The ADI Foundation announced a partnership with Chainlink to accelerate stablecoin and tokenized asset infrastructure across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Through the integration, Chainlink will provide oracle services, data infrastructure, and CCIP cross-chain interoperability across the ADI Chain ecosystem. The partnership will support multiple infrastructure layers including reserve transparency for stablecoins, NAV verification for tokenized securities and funds, and high-frequency market data for institutional DeFi applications. @Bybit_Official and @tether Launch $1M Tokenized Gold Campaign Bybit and Tether launched Golden Season, a campaign distributing more than $1M in rewards tied to tokenized gold products. The initiative aims to encourage adoption of gold-backed digital assets, offering traders exposure to a traditional safe-haven asset while remaining inside the crypto ecosystem. The campaign arrives during a period of market uncertainty, reinforcing how tokenized commodities are increasingly being positioned as defensive assets within onchain finance. @solana Surpasses @ethereum in RWA Wallet Holders Solana has become the first blockchain to surpass Ethereum in the number of wallets holding tokenized RWAs, according to data from RWA.xyz. While Ethereum still leads in total RWA value, Solana’s faster wallet growth highlights how quickly retail adoption of tokenized assets is expanding within its ecosystem. The milestone illustrates the growing divergence between chains focused on institutional issuance and those seeing faster retail distribution of tokenized assets. @plumenetwork Brings Institutional RWA Funds to @solana Plume is expanding its reach on Solana through Nest, its yield distribution protocol for real-world assets. Through an integration with Solana’s onchain banking platform Perena, Nest will launch an RWA vault allowing users to access private credit funds and other institutional financial instruments directly from the network. Perena’s flagship stablecoin USD* will allocate part of its backing to this vault, connecting stablecoin liquidity with yield generated from real credit markets. This development reflects how institutional credit markets are increasingly being integrated directly into DeFi ecosystems. @SuiNetwork Launches Native Stablecoin With Ecosystem Yield Recycling The Sui Dollar (USDsui) has officially launched as the native stablecoin of the Sui blockchain. The token is backed by treasury assets and liquid reserves, with the yield generated from those assets designed to flow back into the Sui ecosystem. This revenue can be used to repurchase SUI tokens, support DeFi liquidity, or incentivize onchain trading activity, creating a feedback loop between stablecoin usage and network growth. Across tokenized equities, institutional exchange participation, expanding stablecoin infrastructure, tokenized commodities, growing RWA adoption on Solana, institutional credit entering DeFi, and ecosystem-backed stablecoins, the direction remains clear: onchain finance is evolving into integrated financial infrastructure. Which signal stood out to you this week?

Tokenization enhances capital markets.

GM 💚 Happy Sunday CT!

Source: @RWA_xyz

Stablecoins have surpassed $300B in circulation. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries are now above $10B. Tokenized equities have crossed $1B. But if you zoom out, the bigger signal is in the RWA growth curve itself. The chart shows a clear acceleration over the past year, with total on-chain RWA value now pushing past $26B and the largest share flowing into U.S. Treasuries and private credit. That progression matters. First came cash equivalents (stablecoins). Then yield-bearing assets (Treasuries). Now we’re starting to see broader exposure across credit, equities and other financial instruments. In other words: RWAs are moving from experimentation to real financial infrastructure onchain.

Stablecoins have surpassed $300B in circulation. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries are now above $10B. Tokenized equities have reached $1B. Taken together, this signals a clear shift: the market is moving beyond pilots toward on-chain financial infrastructure for real-world value, starting with cash equivalents, then yield, and now broader asset exposure. If this was just the first phase, what does the next wave of RWA look like? Will alternative assets like private credit, real estate, commodities and collectibles, next to move on-chain?

On-chain asset access. Institutional standard.

@arbitrumdao_gov Worth looking into!

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gUrano 🪐 It’s a good day to tokenize!

Define tokenization in ONE word:

@arbitrum Arbitrum Everywhere

Arbitrum is the default infrastructure used to build programmable economies. 24/7 markets are becoming the default. Trading, issuance, and coordination is moving onchain. The shift from offchain to onchain is happening now.

GM RWAers 🪐 Here are this week’s key developments across Arbitrum-led tokenized asset activity, stablecoin expansion into new chains, app-specific stablecoin issuance frameworks, self-custody payments at U.S. scale, consumer multichain execution with confidentiality, DeFi lending throughput at trillion-dollar scale, and regulated tokenized securities migrating onto new public-chain rails: @arbitrum Becomes a Major Hub for Tokenized Assets Arbitrum is now one of the most active venues for tokenized assets, driven by a large long-tail of tokenized instruments and meaningful onchain throughput. Arbitrum currently tracks 1,727 RWAs, with roughly $753M in distributed RWA value and around $620M in 30D RWA transfer volume. What’s notable is the distribution reality layer: Arbitrum also carries $7.85B in stablecoin market cap and 10.06Mstablecoin holders, which is the kind of embedded liquidity base that helps tokenized assets actually circulate instead of sitting idle after issuance. @circle Launches USDCx on @Cardano via xReserve Integration Circle officially integrated Cardano with its xReserve platform, introducing USDCx, a stablecoin fully backed by USDC, to the Cardano network. This expands cross-chain dollar liquidity for Cardano developers and users, reinforcing the trend that stablecoin distribution is increasingly being treated as infrastructure, not a single-chain product. @PayPal and @moonpay Launch Platform to Support Custom Stablecoin Issuance for PYUSD Apps PayPal and MoonPay launched PYUSDx, a framework developed with M0 to support application-specific stablecoins using PYUSD as the underlying reserve asset. Rather than forcing apps to rebuild issuance and distribution from scratch, PYUSDx packages the stack-reserve backing via PYUSD, distribution/onboarding via MoonPay, and token tooling via M0. @MetaMask Expands @Mastercard Crypto Card Across the United States Consensys announced the nationwide launch of the MetaMask Card across all 50 U.S. states, extending the Mastercard-backed product into broader day-to-day payment coverage. The practical shift: self-custody wallets connect to merchant rails, with users retaining control of funds until point-of-sale, reducing the last-mile friction between onchain balances and real-world spend. @NEARProtocol Launches Multichain Super-App With Confidential Transactions at NEARCON NEAR Intents announced near.com, a consumer-facing super-app running on crypto rails, alongside Confidential Intents, a confidentiality layer for cross-chain execution. NEAR also introduced an Intents fee switch that shares fees with partners routing transactions, strengthening distribution incentives for multichain execution and liquidity routing. @aave Surpasses $1 Trillion in Lending as Institutional Demand Grows Aave surpassed $1T in cumulative loan volume, reinforcing that onchain credit is operating at real scale as tokenized collateral markets mature. This matters for RWAs because it validates the lending layer as durable infrastructure while protocols push tokenized assets from “issued” to “usable collateral.” Progmat Migrates $2B+ Of Its Tokenized Securities To @avax Progmat is preparing a migration from Corda to a dedicated Avalanche Layer 1, moving $2B+ in tokenized real estate and corporate bonds onto Avalanche infrastructure. This is a meaningful signal from a regulated market: tokenization platforms are prioritizing interoperability and programmable rails that can connect into broader liquidity and tooling ecosystems. Across Arbitrum’s tokenized-asset throughput, stablecoin distribution into new ecosystems, stablecoin issuance becoming an app-layer primitive, self-custody payments scaling through legacy rails, consumer multichain execution with privacy, trillion-dollar onchain lending throughput, and regulated securities migrating onto new infrastructure, the direction remains consistent: onchain finance is shifting from isolated products toward integrated systems with distribution built in. Which signal stood out to you this week?

Onchain finance starts with real assets.

Tokenization makes capital move smarter.