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Wintermute submits feedback to SEC on tokenized securities rules

In a recent submission to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, Wintermute Trading, a prominent digital asset market-maker, provided feedback on tokenized securities ￰0￱ firm outlined three key focus areas aimed at helping liquidity providers support the broader adoption of tokenized ￰1￱ explained that its recommendations are intended to offer practical policy guidance for tokenized securities traders and dealers, promoting innovation, safeguarding investors, and advancing blockchain-based development in the U. S Wintermute urges the SEC not to classify key network tokens as securities Wintermute’s submission to the SEC requests regulatory clarity for crypto brokers and dealers, covering account-based trading of tokenized securities, wallet and key management for self-custody, and on-chain settlement options with stablecoins and other ￰2￱ company has also called for DeFi inclusion of tokenized securities, from trading and liquidity pooling to direct lending, and asked that these activities should not be subject to broker-dealer rules or ￰3￱ reach.

Additionally, the company encouraged the SEC to formally state that core network tokens: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and similar assets, should not be classified as securities, since they are central to decentralized systems, despite how they were originally ￰4￱ firm also argued in its response that clearer rules would allow tokenization efforts to grow across multiple asset classes, including equities and ￰5￱ RWA tokenization market is close to surpassing $28 billion Real-world asset tokenization received a major lift in the ￰6￱ the crypto-supportive Trump era. Globally, the sector’s market value is approaching $28 billion, and stablecoin adoption has topped 191 million ￰7￱ even recently earned a broker-dealer license, a first for a tokenized stock trading firm, allowing it to offer tokenized ￰8￱ the other hand, competitors like Kraken and Coinbase are still awaiting approval for their tokenized equities.

Coinbase’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, even claimed their tokenization project is a “huge priority.” As recently reported by Cryptopolitan , Galaxy Digital also broke new ground, enabling tokenization of its SEC-registered GLXY shares on the Solana ￰9￱ worked with Superstate to launch a tokenized version of its Class A common stock (GLXY) on Solana. Now, through Opening Bell, Galaxy has become the first publicly listed ￰10￱ to issue its equity directly ￰11￱ is entering the $64.7 billion real-world asset tokenization market. “We’re proud to be working with Superstate to help lay the groundwork for an onchain capital market that bridges traditional equities with next-generation infrastructure,” chief executive Novogratz said in a statement .

“Our goal is a tokenized equity that brings the best of crypto – transparency, programmability, and composability, into the traditional world.” Galaxy Digital began considering tokenizing its shares in mid-August, revealing that it had partnered with Superstate to oversee the ￰12￱ April, Superstate submitted a letter to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, proposing a framework to bring Wall Street stocks ￰13￱ lending protocols are growing due to tokenized assets So far, lending protocols in DeFi have more than doubled their TVL since January, rising from $53B to $127B, according to Binance ￰14￱ have credited the boom to growing institutional use of stablecoins and tokenized ￰15￱ Research even noted that as stablecoin and tokenized asset adoption accelerates, DeFi lending protocols are increasingly positioned to facilitate institutional ￰16￱ rally was largely fueled by Maple Finance and Euler, up 586% and 1,466% respectively.

Additionally, Binance Research noted that DeFi institutional adoption is driven by new offerings like Aave Labs’ Horizon, where tokenized RWAs can be pledged as collateral for stablecoin ￰17￱ like Horizon also seek to open up new liquidity streams and make RWAs productive within the DeFi ￰18￱ Difference Wire : the secret tool crypto projects use to get guaranteed media coverage

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