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Circle, the creator of stablecoin USDC (USDC), announced on March 13 plans to bring its Hashnote Tokenized Money Market Fund (TMMF) under Bermuda regulatory oversight through the company’s existing Digital Assets Business Act (DABA) license.Hashnote, which Circle acquired in January 2025, is the issuer of USDY, the largest tokenized treasury and money market fund with a total value locked (TVL) of $900 million, according to DefiLlama. The fund’s TVL has fallen from $1.9 billion as of Jan. 7.Hashnote USYC TVL over time. Source: DefiLlamaRelated: Wall Street is betting on $30T RWA tokenization market prospectsAccording to the announcement, Circle intends to fully integrate USDY with USDC, which would allow for access between the TMMF and the stablecoin. The company believes that this will make USDY “the preferred form” of yield-bearing collateral on crypto exchanges, including for custodians and brokers.According to Freeman Law, Bermuda enacted one of the first legal and regulatory frameworks for governing digital assets. Circle was the first firm in crypto to receive a license under the Bermuda Monetary Authority in September 2021. Bermuda’s Digital Assets Business Act currently permits three types of licenses for companies conducting business under the Act.Tokenized RWAs a “$30-trillion opportunity”In August 2024, Colin Butler, Polygon’s head of institutional capital, said that tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are a $30-trillion market opportunity globally. He believed that the push would likely come from high-net-worth individuals who will allocate money to alternative assets as tokenization creates liquidity in previously illiquid markets.Also, in August 2024, it was predicted that tokenized US Treasurys would surpass a $3 billion market capitalization by the end of 2024. According to RWA.xyz, the tokenized US Treasurys market cap sits at $4.2 billion at the time of this writing. Hashnote is the No. 2 protocol for tokenized US Treasurys, according to the platform, although its market cap has fallen 21% in the past 30 days.Related: Infrastructure for legally viable RWA tokenization: AMA recap with MantraThe overall market cap for RWAs surpassed $15.2 billion at the end of 2024, driven largely by institutional players who piloted tokenization projects related to a host of real-world goods, including real estate, gold, diamonds and carbon credits. The market cap initially reclaimed an all-time high of $17.1 billion on Feb. 3 but has since gone even further, rising to $18.1 billion at the time of this writing.Tokenization is changing different areas of finance, including creating liquidity for illiquid assets and leveraging the blockchain to facilitate transparent and efficient transactions. It isn’t limited to a single type of asset, which gives the technology broader use cases.Magazine: Tokenizing music royalties as NFTs could help the next Taylor Swift

Circle, the creator of stablecoin USDC (USDC), announced on March 13 plans to bring its Hashnote Tokenized Money Market Fund (TMMF) under Bermuda regulatory oversight through the company’s existing Digital Assets Business Act (DABA) license.Hashnote, which Circle acquired in January 2025, is the issuer of USDY, the largest tokenized treasury and money market fund with a total value locked (TVL) of $900 million, according to DefiLlama. The fund’s TVL has fallen from $1.9 billion as of Jan. 7.Hashnote USYC TVL over time. Source: DefiLlamaRelated: Wall Street is betting on $30T RWA tokenization market prospectsAccording to the announcement, Circle intends to fully integrate USDY with USDC, which would allow for access between the TMMF and the stablecoin. The company believes that this will make USDY “the preferred form” of yield-bearing collateral on crypto exchanges, including for custodians and brokers.According to Freeman Law, Bermuda enacted one of the first legal and regulatory frameworks for governing digital assets. Circle was the first firm in crypto to receive a license under the Bermuda Monetary Authority in September 2021. Bermuda’s Digital Assets Business Act currently permits three types of licenses for companies conducting business under the Act.Tokenized RWAs a “$30-trillion opportunity”In August 2024, Colin Butler, Polygon’s head of institutional capital, said that tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are a $30-trillion market opportunity globally. He believed that the push would likely come from high-net-worth individuals who will allocate money to alternative assets as tokenization creates liquidity in previously illiquid markets.Also, in August 2024, it was predicted that tokenized US Treasurys would surpass a $3 billion market capitalization by the end of 2024. According to RWA.xyz, the tokenized US Treasurys market cap sits at $4.2 billion at the time of this writing. Hashnote is the No. 2 protocol for tokenized US Treasurys, according to the platform, although its market cap has fallen 21% in the past 30 days.Related: Infrastructure for legally viable RWA tokenization: AMA recap with MantraThe overall market cap for RWAs surpassed $15.2 billion at the end of 2024, driven largely by institutional players who piloted tokenization projects related to a host of real-world goods, including real estate, gold, diamonds and carbon credits. The market cap initially reclaimed an all-time high of $17.1 billion on Feb. 3 but has since gone even further, rising to $18.1 billion at the time of this writing.Tokenization is changing different areas of finance, including creating liquidity for illiquid assets and leveraging the blockchain to facilitate transparent and efficient transactions. It isn’t limited to a single type of asset, which gives the technology broader use cases.Magazine: Tokenizing music royalties as NFTs could help the next Taylor Swift

Robinhood has listed memecoins Pengu (PENGU), Pnut (PNUT) and Popcat (POPCAT) as the online brokerage doubles down on cryptocurrency trading, it said on March 13. The listings mark Robinhood’s latest effort to expand its crypto offerings and compete with incumbent exchange Coinbase. Memecoin trading has become a key battleground as rival exchanges — including Coinbase and Binance.US — accelerate new coin listings after US President Donald Trump’s November election win.Robinhood listed new memecoins. Source: RobinhoodRelated: Robinhood tips Singapore launch, touts memecoin interest: ReportStrong demandIn February, Robinhood Crypto said its customers had shown strong demand for more memecoin trading options. In addition to its newly launched coins, Robinhood lists Dogecoin (DOGE), the largest memecoin by market capitalization. It also launched crypto futures trading in January. “We don’t want to make decisions for the customer but if customers are asking for something and we feel like we have a way to offer it safely, we will do it,” Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood Crypto’s vice president and general manager, reportedly told Bloomberg. Robinhood, best known as a stock trading platform, has been investing heavily in crypto products since last year. In February, the online brokerage reported a 700% year-over-year jump in crypto revenues. Trump’s election win and rising market prices fueled across-the-board increases in crypto trading in the fourth quarter of 2024. Robinhood’s change in trading volumes for equities, options contracts and crypto. Source: RobinhoodRegulatory reversalTrump — who has promised to make America the “world’s crypto capital” — has appointed industry-friendly leadership to key regulatory positions. In February, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said most memecoins do not qualify as securities and thus do not fall under the regulators’ jurisdiction. This was a stark reversal from its stance under Joe Biden’s administration when former SEC Chair Gary Gensler said he thought most cryptocurrencies constituted securities. The same month, the agency dropped an enforcement action against Robinhood for alleged securities law violations tied to its crypto trading platform. X Hall of Flame: Memecoins will die and DeFi will rise again — Sasha Ivanov 

Robinhood has listed memecoins Pengu (PENGU), Pnut (PNUT) and Popcat (POPCAT) as the online brokerage doubles down on cryptocurrency trading, it said on March 13. The listings mark Robinhood’s latest effort to expand its crypto offerings and compete with incumbent exchange Coinbase. Memecoin trading has become a key battleground as rival exchanges — including Coinbase and Binance.US — accelerate new coin listings after US President Donald Trump’s November election win.Robinhood listed new memecoins. Source: RobinhoodRelated: Robinhood tips Singapore launch, touts memecoin interest: ReportStrong demandIn February, Robinhood Crypto said its customers had shown strong demand for more memecoin trading options. In addition to its newly launched coins, Robinhood lists Dogecoin (DOGE), the largest memecoin by market capitalization. It also launched crypto futures trading in January. “We don’t want to make decisions for the customer but if customers are asking for something and we feel like we have a way to offer it safely, we will do it,” Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood Crypto’s vice president and general manager, reportedly told Bloomberg. Robinhood, best known as a stock trading platform, has been investing heavily in crypto products since last year. In February, the online brokerage reported a 700% year-over-year jump in crypto revenues. Trump’s election win and rising market prices fueled across-the-board increases in crypto trading in the fourth quarter of 2024. Robinhood’s change in trading volumes for equities, options contracts and crypto. Source: RobinhoodRegulatory reversalTrump — who has promised to make America the “world’s crypto capital” — has appointed industry-friendly leadership to key regulatory positions. In February, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said most memecoins do not qualify as securities and thus do not fall under the regulators’ jurisdiction. This was a stark reversal from its stance under Joe Biden’s administration when former SEC Chair Gary Gensler said he thought most cryptocurrencies constituted securities. The same month, the agency dropped an enforcement action against Robinhood for alleged securities law violations tied to its crypto trading platform. X Hall of Flame: Memecoins will die and DeFi will rise again — Sasha Ivanov 

The burn was conducted after the conclusion of Venice’s airdrop, which began at the end of January and ended on Wednesday. Crypto AI Startup Venice Burns $100M in Tokens Bitcoin and crypto entrepreneur Erik Voorhees’s Privacy-focused AI startup Venice concluded its airdrop on Wednesday after distributing 17.4 million Venice tokens (VVV) to more than 40,000 […]