Hong Kong tests Chainlink CCIP for cross-border CBDC payments – pilot project links e-HKD with stablecoins and smart contracts.
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Dubai launches real estate tokenization on XRP Ledger: Prypco Mint enables fractional ownership from 540 USD – 16 billion USD target by 2033.
BX Digital, which received the first FINMA license for a DLT trading system in mid-March, announces the first five trading participants.
Fidelity introduces a new blockchain-based share class for its money market fund, the Fidelity Treasury Digital Fund (FYHXX).
ZKB has, in collaboration with UBS, exchanged blockchain-based instructions for the trading of fund shares for the first time.
UBS leverages the Ethereum layer-2 solution ZKSync Validium for digital gold investments but remains skeptical of cryptocurrencies.
So-called zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) offer a privacy solution in the decentralized blockchain space despite transparency.
Chainlink’s “Golden Record” optimizes corporate data via AI and blockchain, used by the likes of Franklin Templeton, UBS and Vontobel.