Tokenized infrastructure reached operational scale this week, with major traditional finance players launching active services and platforms deploying concrete integrations rather than announcements.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

– Open Standard unveiled Open USD backed by 140+ partners

– Standard Chartered became first G-SIB offering USDC minting and redemption

– Ondo launched tokenized stocks on Ethereum including iShares S&P 500 ETF

– Robinhood Layer 2 went live on mainnet with full settlement stack

– Ethena integrated USDe into BlackRock’s Aladdin managing $20 trillion

– Plume and FalconX launched a $1B RWA facility for prime brokerage loans

– SK Hynix filed for a $29B Nasdaq listing as dominant AI HBM maker

– Venice AI raised $65M at $1B valuation led by Dragonfly