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Jupiter launches a digital venue where collectors can buy real, graded Pokémon and One Piece cards that are fully onchain and tradable on the Solana DEX.The new initiative, dubbed Jupiter Gacha, is currently in beta.

SBI and Solana target stablecoins, tokenized assets, payments and institutional services across Japan and Asia.Solana Foundation will join SBI R3 Japan, which plans to become SBI Solana Global soon.The venture aims to connect Japan’s regulated financial system with global blockchain liquidity and markets.

Wallet in Telegram, the native crypto wallet built into the messaging app, offers access to tokenized shares of the South Korean chip supplier through xStocks.SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion with a share sale.The company’s shares are also available on Solana via Backpack and Ondo Finance.

Kraken is the latest crypto exchange planning to reinvent its trading platform by incorporating AI features.Agentic trading on Kraken will reportedly include bots that monitor markets, make recommendations, and even execute trades on users’ behalf.

Backpack has launched 24/7 trading for tokenized U.S. stocks with direct ownership and instant settlement.The exchange now offers tokenized shares of companies including SpaceX, Micron and SanDisk across 150+ markets.RWA.xyz data shows the tokenized stock market has grown to $1.85 billion as crypto and traditional firms expand offerings.

FullSend works by automatically routing every transaction signed in a Privy wallet directly to the current Solana block-building leader.The tool, built with Jito Labs, has been running in Privy wallets since January and has achieved 99.999% landing reliability across millions of transactions.

Tokenized stock transfers doubled in one month as on-chain equity demand moved beyond early experiments.DTCC’s tokenization pilot gives Wall Street a regulated path to test on-chain stock settlement.Crypto exchanges and traditional firms now compete to control tokenized stock trading infrastructure worldwide.

Clearstream now supports eight crypto assets, widening institutional access beyond Bitcoin and Ether custody.The service uses Crypto Finance as sub-custodian, keeping the offering inside Deutsche Börse’s regulated structure.MiCA is pushing European institutions toward licensed custody, settlement, trading, and stablecoin infrastructure providers.

Michael Coates has joined the Solana Foundation as Chief Information Security Officer after previously leading security at Mozilla, Twitter and Altitude Networks.Coates said Solana’s transaction scale and multi billion dollar daily stablecoin activity influenced his decision to join the foundation.His work will focus on strengthening crypto security, improving application security practices and working with policymakers on cybersecurity standards.

ZachXBT said copycat meme coins used his likeness without his support or promotion.He sold tokens sent to his donation wallet and sent about $41,000 to charities.The case shows how meme coin creators use trusted crypto figures to attract attention.

After President Trump disclosed over $1 billion in crypto-related earnings, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for a meme coin ban.

Tokenization can speed settlement, but weak standards may split liquidity across competing financial platforms worldwide.Major banks are testing tokenized deposits as regulated rails for faster institutional payment settlement systems.Regulators must define ownership, code oversight, and settlement finality before tokenized markets scale globally.

Securitize today became the first firm to debut its stock simultaneously on the New York Stock Exchange and onchain.President Brett Redfearn said the firm is in discussions to tokenize other IPOs “within the next year.”

BlackRock-backed tokenization firm Securitize now has shares trading on the New York Stock Exchange—or via Solana and Avalanche.

Securitize has tokenized its own NYSE-listed common stock on Solana and Avalanche on its first trading day.The company said tokenized SECZ represents the same common shares, not a separate class of stock.The listing follows a $400 million SPAC deal as Securitize expands its tokenized real-world asset business.

Forward Industries bought over 500,000 SOL, raising its treasury to 7.55M SOL by June 30.The company reported 36% annualized SOL-per-share growth while selling 93,642 shares during fiscal Q3 2026.Earlier losses show Solana treasury firms remain exposed to price swings and U.S. accounting rules.