ChainCatcher news, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino posted on the X platform that the first public client and product information for the asset tokenization platform Hadron will be announced around early next week.Tether announced yesterday the launch of the asset tokenization platform Hadron by Tether, aimed at making asset tokenization more accessible than ever, opening up new avenues for issuance, investment, and core capital market technologies for a broader audience (from institutions to fund managers, from governments to private companies).It is reported that Hadron by Tether can be used for the entire lifecycle of issuing and managing digital tokenized assets, providing modularity, security, reliability, and a seamless user experience. Its control suite focuses on providing the most comprehensive toolkit for compliance, Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), transaction monitoring, risk management, and secondary market ecosystem monitoring.

ChainCatcher news, Tether has announced the launch of its asset tokenization platform Hadron by Tether, opening up new avenues for issuance, investment, and core capital market technologies for a broader audience (from institutions to fund managers, from governments to private companies).It is reported that Hadron by Tether can be used for the entire lifecycle of issuing and managing digital tokenized assets, providing modularity, security, reliability, and a seamless user experience. It offers the most comprehensive toolkit in its control suite for compliance, KYC, anti-money laundering (AML), risk management, and secondary market ecosystem monitoring.

ChainCatcher news, the RWA platform Jade City has completed the first batch of jade transportation from its mining partners, delivering the jade to storage facilities in Guangdong, China. This transportation marks a key step for Jade City in its plan to profit from jade sales and launch its RWA tokenization platform.The Jade City platform will allow investors to enter the jade market, with the RWA tokenization platform expected to officially launch by the end of 2024.In addition, Jade City plans to issue jade-backed bonds, providing investors with high-yield physical jade tokens.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Binance's venture capital and incubation department, Binance Labs, has invested in OpenEden, a tokenization investment platform focused on building bridges to new financial systems with real-world assets (RWA).Last month, OpenEden announced that the total locked value (TVL) of its tokenized TBILL has exceeded $100 million. The platform allows KYC-verified investors, DAOs, and cryptocurrency financial managers to connect self-custody wallets and mint TBILL tokens, thereby earning stablecoin yields on idle operating funds.Currently, OpenEden has attracted over 100 institutional clients.

ChainCatcher news, the European tokenization platform Tokeny announced a partnership with 21X DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) trading and settlement system (DLT TSS). This is the first platform to operate under the new EU DLT ecosystem. Tokeny's DINO is an open distribution network for tokens compliant with the ERC-3643 standard. This collaboration will connect DINO to 21X.21X is a smart contract-based trading platform that offers compliant trading of financial instruments under the EU DLT framework. The company is said to be collaborating with several tokenization firms to facilitate the matching, trading, and settlement of tokenized assets.By connecting with DINO, Tokeny will be able to facilitate the trading of digital securities and real-world assets (RWA). DINO is reportedly collaborating with over 50 liquidity platforms.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the time tokenization platform Time.fun has completed a $3 million seed round of financing, led by Brevan Howard Digital. Other investors include Coinbase Ventures, Breed VC, Zee Prime Capital, and Arthur Hayes' family office Maelstrom, as well as angel investors such as Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal.Time.fun is built on the Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain Base, helping creators tokenize their time, allowing users to buy, sell, and exchange creators' time for private messages or one-on-one calls.Since its launch on June 17, Time.fun has completed approximately 570 ETH (about $2 million) in transaction volume, with creator earnings around 15 ETH (about $60,000). Time.fun employs a supply and demand curve mechanism and plans to issue its own token in the future, but the specific timing is yet to be determined.

ChainCatcher news, the crypto startup Rumpel Labs announced that it will launch an airdrop points tokenization platform in mid-September, with a preview platform released in early September. This will allow users to tokenize and trade airdrop points.Rumpel Labs stated that the project is supported by Dragonfly and Variant, and its team has experience with MakerDAO and Aave, having built the DeFi protocol Sense Protocol from 2021 to 2023.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the AgriDex platform for tokenizing agricultural products based on Solana has completed its first agricultural transaction on the Solana blockchain, involving the shipment of over two hundred bottles of extra virgin olive oil and multiple cases of wine from a farm and vineyard in South Africa to London, scheduled to arrive on July 29. AgriDex supports instant settlement transactions and charges a fee of 0.15% to both parties involved in the transaction.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the application chain infrastructure protocol Tanssi has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Agrotoken, the world's first agricultural commodity tokenization platform. Under the agreement, both parties will leverage Polkadot technology to develop an agricultural financial solution for the South American market, initially focusing on Brazil and Argentina.Agrotoken will utilize Tanssi's dedicated application chain technology to develop a blockchain-based solution that uses tokenized grains as collateral for loans. This requires complex processes to track grain value, loan terms, ownership transfers, and repayment plans, which are difficult for general-purpose blockchains to handle.Agrotoken operates in major agricultural markets where the agricultural sector constitutes a significant portion of GDP, including Brazil (22%), Argentina (6.6%), and the United States (5.5%). Due to the scale and complexity of the market, Agrotoken needs a robust, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, characteristics that are inherent to application chains.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the tokenization platform Midas, supported by Coinbase Ventures and others, announced the launch of a new yield ERC-20 token called mBASIS, priced in US dollars, aimed at generating yield through delta-neutral basis trading strategies. The mBASIS token is similar to Ethena Labs' yield token sUSDe (its staked version of "synthetic dollar" USDe). Fabrice Grinda, Executive Chairman of Midas Labs, stated that the decision to launch mBASIS was made because they believe they can create a better product than Ethena.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the RWA tokenization platform Fortunafi announced the completion of a $9.51 million strategic seed round financing at a valuation of $48 million, with participation from Shima Capital, Manifold, Jordan Fish (also known as Cobie), Ari Litan from LayerZero Labs, Austin Green from Llama, Evanss6, and Scott Lewis.It is reported that Fortunafi announced the launch of a new stablecoin protocol called Reservoir, which is expected to go live next month, and will also collaborate with Index Coop to launch a real-world asset index token.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Fortunafi is an on-chain financial institution that provides integrated liquidity solutions for traditional entities and stablecoin issuers. Fortunafi offers higher-yield investment products through the acquisition, aggregation, and securitization of on-chain real-world assets (RWA).

ChainCatcher news, over the past year, South Korean banks and securities companies have begun to establish token issuance platforms and collaborate to form a tokenization alliance. Despite the legislative support for securities token issuance being delayed, these institutions continue to move forward. This week, Woori Bank signed a distribution agreement with a secondary market operator and applied to participate in a regulatory sandbox. Additionally, it has been reported that NongHyup Bank received 1 billion KRW (732,000 USD) in funding from the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) for the development of its token issuance platform. The platform is expected to be ready by November this year. In August last year, Woori Bank, along with Samsung Securities (the second-largest brokerage in Korea) and SK Securities, established a "Mutual Cooperation Committee." The Financial 3.0 Partners (F3P) decided to collaborate to explore business models, "validate infrastructure," and establish investment protection measures. It now appears that the infrastructure aspect means they are building a joint token issuance solution.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Solana-based tokenization platform AgriDex has completed a $5 million funding round, led by Endeavor Ventures, with participation from African Crops Limited, Oldenburg Vineyards, and former Goldman Sachs and Citadel executive Hank Oberoi. AgriDex is expected to launch its platform and token AGRI in the third quarter of this year.AgriDex co-founder and CEO Herry Duckworth stated that this funding round was completed in the form of equity financing, with a valuation of $18 million. As part of the deal, Endeavor Ventures co-founder and CEO Bill Cunningham also joined the AgriDex board.It is reported that AgriDex is a Solana-based platform that tokenizes agricultural products and supports the trading of these tokenized goods. Each transaction on AgriDex is represented by the minting of a non-fungible token (NFT), which permanently records all product details, pricing, payments, and other information.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the RWA tokenization platform Securitize has completed a $47 million strategic financing round, led by BlackRock, with participation from Hamilton Lane, ParaFi Capital, Tradeweb Markets, Aptos Labs, Circle, and Paxos. The funds from this round will be used to accelerate product development and further strengthen its partnerships within the financial services ecosystem.As part of the investment, Joseph Chalom, Global Head of Strategic Ecosystem Partnerships at BlackRock, has been appointed to the board of Securitize.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the tokenization platform Huma Finance has merged with the liquidity and settlement platform Arf to enhance the adoption of tokenized assets. As part of the transaction, Huma and Arf will become part of the newly established holding entity 00 Holdings Inc. However, both companies will continue to operate separately under their existing names and brands.It is reported that Huma Finance co-founder and co-CEO Erbil Karaman declined to disclose the terms of the deal but stated that the newly merged entity is completing a "large" financing round.Additionally, Arf's recent on-chain liquidity volume has exceeded $1 billion. Arf co-founder and CEO Nalbant stated that based on the global partners' monthly liquidity demand of $500 million, the merged entity is expected to surpass $3 billion in transaction volume by the end of the year.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the real estate equity mortgage institution and tokenization platform Homium has completed a $10 million Series A funding round, led by Sorenson Impact Group and Avalanche's Blizzard Fund.It is reported that Homium is a real estate equity mortgage institution and tokenization platform that has launched its first home equity loan on Avalanche. Homium loans are currently implemented in Colorado and plan to expand to other states. As part of obtaining the loan, homeowners commit a portion of the appreciation in home value. For investors (i.e., those providing funds for the loan), they will receive a tokenized asset that tracks the appreciation of the shared appreciation home loan pool issued on Homium.

ChainCatcher news, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino tweeted that the Tether tokenization platform will soon be open to everyone, featuring fully non-custodial, multi-chain, multi-asset type support, and high customization.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Galaxy Digital's crypto custody company GK8, acquired a year ago, has launched the Tokenization Wizard platform, which is a platform for building blockchain-based versions of real-world assets, as well as securely managing stablecoins and various Web3 applications.It is reported that the first clients to use this tool will be the partnership between asset management company DWS, Flow Traders, and Galaxy to manage fully collateralized euro-denominated stablecoins.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, VeChain has announced the launch of a "Market as a Service (MaaS)" no-code asset tokenization platform. This platform provides a low/no-code NFT platform for businesses and individual builders to easily create, sell, and transfer digital assets.