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Money & Markets
The Trump-backed stablecoin's native deployment on the institutional settlement network completes the plumbing Tradeweb and Virtu just proved works — but Binance concentration and political baggage complicate the picture.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The $12 trillion daily repo market got its first atomic settlement demo on Canton Network, using a Marshall Islands sovereign bond backed by U.S. Treasuries. When Nasdaq-listed infrastructure moves onchain, tokenized collateral stops being experimental.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The BankChain Alliance unites nearly every state bankers association in the country behind a permissioned network targeting 2027 — the same window the GENIUS Act enforcement begins. But the consortium has no technology partner yet, and the big-bank networks are already ahead.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The exchange launched 13 tokenized U.S. equities on Base with full DeFi integration and shareholder rights — under Abu Dhabi's regulatory umbrella, not America's. Day-one volume hit $10.8 million while the SEC's innovation exemption remains stuck in political gridlock.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
With the CLARITY Act's Senate prospects dimming, Chairman Selig is dangling a regulatory alternative. The industry's silence on the comment docket suggests they aren't buying it — or they're waiting for the September 15 vote.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The $1 billion warehouse facility marks a definitive pivot from crypto-native basis strategies toward diversified, overcollateralized institutional credit.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
A new credit fund backed by Ripple, Clearpool, and Cicada Partners will lend RLUSD to fintech and payments firms on the XRP Ledger — the first institutional lending product to use the stablecoin as collateral. The catch: it depends on two protocol amendments that haven't passed yet.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Visa, Mastercard, Circle, Solana, and 22 other founding members are building the de facto governance framework for how AI agents spend money — the same playbook The Clearing House used for tokenized deposits.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The proposed ASU doesn't redefine cash equivalents — it adds the illustrative examples that let corporate treasurers hold stablecoins on balance sheets without mark-to-market P&L distortion. Combined with the GENIUS Act NPRM, it's a two-layer infrastructure buildout for institutional adoption.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
By seating DTCC, CME, and Nasdaq alongside Coinbase, Polymarket, and Kalshi, the administration is signaling that tokenization, market structure, and prediction markets are now unified policy priorities — and that executive action will fill the vacuum left by a stalled Congress.
◆ Nolan Pratt
