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Add preferred source The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a five-year exemption allowing blockchain-based platforms to facilitate trading in tokenized stocks, marking a major step toward integrating digital assets with traditional equity markets. The order, effective immediately, exempts qualifying venues from many exchange rules and relieves liquidity providers from dealer registration requirements. Platforms…

S&P Global has entered into an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin — a developer of security solutions for onchain finance. The deal is expected to expand S&P Global’s capabilities in digital asset risk assessment and help the company build new security assessment tools, benchmarks, and analytics for a financial market that is moving to blockchain infrastructure.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday it will allow blockchain-based trading venues to list and trade tokenized versions of publicly traded U.S. stocks without registering as national securities exchanges. The exemption grants so-called “tokenized securities venues” a five-year conditional exemption from the Exchange Act’s definition of an exchange, letting them use automated market makers…

Shenchao Overview: Over the past few years, Circle has done just one thing: bring USDC to where users already are. Now, it’s entering the Layer 1 space itself, not betting on stealing liquidity from Ethereum or Solana, but aiming to create markets that don’t yet exist: stablecoin foreign exchange, institutional private finance, and autonomous agent…

OpenWorld is a technology-powered digital assets and blockchain innovation company operating at the intersection of institutional capital markets, enterprise blockchain infrastructure, and RWA tokenization. Its mission is to enable the creation and deployment of next generation financial products powered by blockchain technology. Pulse 2.0 interviewed OpenWorld co-founder and CEO Matthew Shaw to learn more.