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Ondo Finance has been increasingly mentioned by major traditional financial institutions in their earnings calls, highlighting its growing role in the tokenization of capital markets. According to ChainCatcher, Broadridge CEO Tim Gokey referred to Ondo Global Markets as a 'leading provider in the field' during an earnings call in April 2026. Additionally, Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson noted Ondo Global Markets as a key distribution partner for their tokenized ETF products in a previous earnings call.

Ondo Finance stated that while a year ago, traditional financial institutions viewed 'asset tokenization' as a concept under observation, many CEOs of large financial institutions now consider Ondo Global Markets an essential part of future capital market infrastructure.

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with $14 trillion under management, filed paperwork with the SEC on Friday to launch a new tokenized Treasury reserve fund and add blockchain-based shares to an existing $7 billion money-market fund — its most concrete expansion yet into tokenized finance since the launch of its BUIDL fund in 2024.A new tokenized Treasury reserve fundThe first filing proposes the BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle, a new fund that would invest in cash, short-term U.S. Treasury securities, and overnight repurchase agreements backed by Treasuries. The fund would issue OnChain Shares through a permissioned system connected to multiple public blockchains, with Securitize Transfer Agent LLC maintaining official ownership records. A permissioned framework would link wallet addresses to investor identities while preserving offchain identity records.The filing did not specify which blockchains the fund will initially support. The minimum investment threshold is set at $3 million, targeting institutional rather than retail investors.Onchain shares for a $7 billion money-market fundThe second filing proposes creating an onchain share class for the BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund, an existing traditional money-market fund with nearly $7 billion in assets under management. Under the proposal, BNY Mellon Investment Servicing would maintain official ownership records on Ethereum using ERC-20 token standards, with blockchain records combined with offchain identity systems serving as the fund's official shareholder registry.The move would bring one of BlackRock's largest and most established cash-management products directly onto a public blockchain for the first time.Building on BUIDL's successFriday's filings extend a tokenization strategy BlackRock has been building since 2024, when it launched its first tokenized money-market fund, BUIDL, in partnership with Securitize. BUIDL has since grown to approximately $2.5 billion in assets and has found a secondary use case across crypto markets as collateral for borrowing and leveraged trading — a development that has accelerated institutional demand for the product well beyond its original design.BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has been an outspoken advocate for tokenization as a mechanism for modernizing financial infrastructure, arguing that blockchain-based settlement can speed up transaction cycles, enable around-the-clock trading, and improve transparency across capital markets.The market context: $30 billion and growing fastThe two filings land as the tokenized real-world asset market crosses a significant milestone. The sector has grown more than 200% over the past year and now exceeds $30 billion in total value, according to data from rwa.xyz. A joint report by Boston Consulting Group and Ripple projected the market could reach $18.9 trillion by 2033 — a figure that, if realized, would represent one of the largest structural shifts in the history of financial markets.BlackRock's continued expansion into the space is both a validation of that trajectory and an acceleration of it. When the world's largest asset manager files twice in a single day to deepen its onchain footprint, it sends a signal to institutional peers, regulators, and crypto markets alike that tokenized finance is moving from experiment to infrastructure.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.68T, up by 0.63% over the last 24 hours.Bitcoin (BTC) traded between $79,550 and $80,667 over the past 24 hours. As of 09:30 AM (UTC) today, BTC is trading at $80,255, up by 0.41%.Most major cryptocurrencies by market cap are trading higher. Market outperformers include DYM, ACE, and SAHARA, up by 36%, 29%, and 20%, respectively.Altcoins Surge, SEC Signals Support for Onchain Finance, and Tokenized RWAs Top $30B — CPI and Binance Online Set the Stage for Crypto’s Biggest Week of MayBitcoin held above $80,000 as altcoins posted broad gains on Friday, led by ICP’s 12% jump. The SEC chair signaled regulatory support for onchain trading infrastructure, while Strategy and BlackRock’s IBIT now vie for the title of the world’s largest single BTC holder.Looking ahead, the week delivers two of the month’s most consequential data points back-to-back: US CPI and PPI. Both coincide with Binance Online 2026, a four-hour event featuring BlackRock’s COO, CZ, Brad Garlinghouse, and Adam Back, which could set the narrative for institutional crypto through Q2.Binance Dominates Crypto in April 2026 — 36% Market Share, $149B in Reserves, and Record Derivatives Volume, According to CoinMarket Cap ReportKey Takeaways:Twelve tracked exchanges processed $4.50T in combined spot and derivatives volume in April; Binance took a 36.23% share — more than double its nearest rivalBinance held $149.75B of the $220.07B in total tracked proof-of-reserves — a 68% share, more than the next seven exchanges combinedMarket-wide derivatives outpaced spot trading 5.38x; Binance's ratio of 5.40x effectively sets the industry benchmarkA US-based exchange overtook Binance in BTC order-book depth (median ±2% depth: $19.5M vs Binance's $17.2M) — the only competitive area where Binance lost ground in AprilBinance launched Capital Connect for institutional prime brokerage access and filed for EU MiCA authorization with Greece's regulatorBNB finished April up just 0.73% — essentially flat — while competitor exchange tokens swung ±10%, reinforcing BNB's profile as the category's most stable platform assetSummary:April's data confirmed a structural reality rather than a monthly fluctuation: Binance leads in reserves, volume, ETH liquidity, derivatives, and institutional product velocity simultaneously. The one area a competitor made meaningful ground — BTC order-book depth — is notable but narrow. The more significant story is the Capital Connect launch, which signals Binance is deliberately moving beyond its retail-dominant heritage into institutional prime brokerage — a market where its scale gives it a structural advantage that will be difficult for competitors to replicate.Crypto's Biggest Week: US CPI Data, PPI Release, and Binance Online 2026 — What to WatchKey Takeaways:US CPI drops Monday May 12 at 8:30 AM ET — the single most important macro data point of the week; a beat entrenches the Fed's hold, a miss reignites rate cut speculationBank of America scrapped its 2026 rate cut forecast entirely, pushing its next cut projection to H2 2027; April's FOMC vote was 8-4 — the largest internal split since 1992US PPI releases Tuesday May 13 — a second inflation read that will either confirm or complicate Monday's CPI narrativeBinance Online 2026 runs Tuesday May 13 from 11:00 AM UTC, featuring BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein on tokenization, CZ and Chamath on where smart money is flowing, Brad Garlinghouse and Lily Liu on crypto's evolution, and Adam Back on Bitcoin's long-term significanceBlackRock filed for two new tokenized fund products with the SEC on Friday — making the Goldstein session directly relevant to one of the week's fastest-moving institutional storiesSummary:Monday's CPI print will set the tone for everything that follows. If core inflation comes in softer than expected, Bitcoin gets the macro tailwind it needs to break cleanly above $80,000 heading into Tuesday's Binance Online — creating a compounding positive momentum setup. A hot print does the opposite, injecting uncertainty into a market that has only recently stabilized. The Binance event itself is the most substantive public gathering of institutional crypto leadership in 2026 — the BlackRock tokenization session in particular, following Friday's SEC filings, could move markets independently of the macro data.Corporate Bitcoin Holdings Surge in April 2026Key Takeaways:Corporate and public company Bitcoin reserves grew by a net 57,791 BTC in April — one of the largest monthly additions since mid-2025, per BitcoinTreasuries.netStrategy purchased 56,235 BTC in April, funded primarily through STRC ATM offerings that raised $3.3B — a new monthly record for the instrumentStrategy now holds 818,334 BTC; BlackRock's IBIT holds approximately 818,147 BTC — a gap of fewer than 200 coins between the world's largest corporate holder and its largest ETFBitcoin ETFs now hold or provide exposure to ~1.5M BTC — surpassing public company reserves by ~300,000 BTCCorporate altcoin reserves stand at ~$22B, with Ethereum reserves accounting for ~$16.2B of that totalSummary:The Strategy-vs-IBIT BTC holding race is the cycle's most watched institutional metric — and with fewer than 200 coins separating them, the lead could change hands any week. The broader picture is more significant: April's 57,791 BTC in corporate additions nearly matched the net buying of the prior two quarters combined, signaling that Q2 institutional accumulation is accelerating sharply. ETFs now outpacing corporate treasuries by 300,000 BTC is the structural shift that defines this cycle — regulated fund vehicles have become the dominant institutional Bitcoin accumulation channel.Altcoins Surge as Bitcoin Holds Above $80,000 — SEC Chair Backs Onchain Finance RulesKey Takeaways:ICP jumped ~12% to lead Friday's altcoin rally; NEAR and Uniswap each gained ~7%; SOL, Chainlink, SUI, and DOT all rose ~5% in a broad-based move spanning L1s, DeFi, and infrastructureThe Nasdaq climbed 2.2% to a fresh all-time high; S&P 500 added 0.85% and also closed at a record — equities provided a constructive backdrop for the crypto rallySEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency is weighing new rulemaking around onchain trading, crypto custody, and blockchain-based settlement — framing it as a response to finance's convergence with AI and distributed ledger technologyDigital asset infrastructure stocks surged: a tokenization firm rose 6%, a digital asset infrastructure company gained 10%, and a BlackRock-backed tokenization SPAC added 4.3%Coinbase recovered 10% from session lows despite a $398M quarterly loss and a multi-hour AWS-related platform outage on Friday — Wall Street focused on longer-term stablecoin and regulation tailwindsSummary:Friday's session showed what happens when multiple tailwinds align simultaneously — stable BTC, record equities, strong jobs data, and a positive regulatory signal all on the same day produced the broadest altcoin rally in weeks. Atkins' onchain finance comments are the most structurally significant: SEC rulemaking that legitimizes onchain trading infrastructure would remove one of the remaining regulatory uncertainties overhanging tokenization and DeFi. Combined with the Clarity Act's progress in the Senate, the US regulatory environment for crypto is becoming more defined and more supportive faster than most expected at the start of 2026.Tokenized Real-World Assets Surge Tenfold in Two Years, Exceeding $30 BillionKey Takeaways:Tokenized RWAs have grown 10x over two years to surpass $30B, per a16z crypto data cited by ChainCatcherNearly half the market is comprised of US Treasury bonds — the asset class that has driven the bulk of institutional adoptionThe mix is diversifying: commodities, equities, and private credit have gained meaningful market share in recent quarters alongside TreasurysGrowth reflects institutional demand for on-chain access to traditional financial instruments rather than speculative inflowsSummary:Ten times growth in two years to $30B is a compound annual growth rate that few asset classes in history have matched — and this one is driven by institutions seeking yield and settlement efficiency, not retail speculation. The diversification into commodities, equities, and private credit signals the market is maturing past its Treasury-only phase into a broader fixed-income and multi-asset infrastructure. BlackRock's two new SEC filings for tokenized funds on Friday sit directly in this trend — and the Binance Online session with BlackRock's COO on Tuesday will likely add further institutional momentum to a narrative that is increasingly defining where the next wave of crypto capital is flowing.Market movers:ETH: $2313.18 (+1.12%)BNB: $649.11 (+1.58%)XRP: $1.4204 (+2.19%)SOL: $93.42 (+5.45%)TRX: $0.3517 (+0.54%)DOGE: $0.10975 (+2.09%)WBTC: $80043.25 (+0.42%)ZEC: $614.23 (+9.34%)U: $1.0001 (+0.01%)ADA: $0.2731 (+3.45%)