Your First Captivating Topic of the Week

🇺🇸 Welcome to the USA Archax!

Monday kicked off the week with news from friends of STM.co, and it’s that Archax has acquired a US broker dealer/ alternative trading system (ATS) meaning they’re now expanding and entering US markets - both primary and secondary.

The UK-based team bought Globacap Private Markets which will now be known as Archax Markets US, congratulations and welcome Graham, Simon, and team! 👏

Wait, didn’t they just acquire someone else?

Yup! Back in October 2024 Archax also expanded to the EU by acquiring King & Shaxson Capital Markets based out of Spain. Clearly Archax is looking to offer their security tokens worldwide… what jurisdiction do you think is next?

STM.co already tracks the abrdn Liquidity Fund (Lux) – US Dollar Fund and we’re expanding to onboard all of them, including assets from BlackRock, Legal & General, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity International and State Street among other cool products! These are mostly funds and corporate bonds but we’re expecting to see more equities, treasuries, and structured products in the near future.

Having a US presence also gives them more access to US-based institutions and the interesting products they could have in mind. Remember tokenization makes it easier to get creative with the investment product’s structure 👀

Archax Markets US will be offering RWAs across multiple chains (no surprise of course) including these: Algorand, Arbitrum, Ethereum, Etherlink, Polygon, Solana, Stellar, XDC, XRPL, and Hedera Hashgraph.

Speaking of Hedera Hashgraph, it sounds like they’re going institutional! Check out the next topic 👇

This is not financial advice.

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Your Second Captivating Topic of the Week

🏦 Hedera’s Going Institutional by Q3

Blockchains are increasingly creating institutional/ enterprise solutions as those types of firms start to enter the space at faster speeds. Hedera is no different and they’ve just announced their Hedera HashSphere permissioned blockchain can be expected in Q3 this year!

The announcement shares the focus on payments and tokenized RWAs for the new permissioned environment and stresses the importance of compliance - which makes sense given the size of the assets banks & asset managers can bring onchain and the regulatory frameworks they need to abide by.

Who’s going to be using it? One example of an early partner is Australian Payments Plus, Australia's national payment scheme operator. How many transactions do you think they processed last year?

5.7 billion transactions! Imagine all of that living onchain. It’s all about building for the customer’s needs and looks like Hashgraph is doing so through HashSphere.

Other early entrants to HashSphere include Blade Labs and Vayana which is focusing on private credit lending and bond tokenization - two very quickly growing asset classes in the space!

This is not financial advice.

Companies of the Week

Company of the Week - Herwig: World Liberty Financial
Company of the Week - Kyle: Fidelity Investments

Find out why and more every Friday live around 12pm EST on LinkedIn or X/ Twitter. Past episodes available on Youtube or your favorite podcast platform! 

RWA Foundation

Have you joined the RWA Foundation yet? 

Incubated by Security Token Market, the Real World Assets (RWA) Foundation is a crypto native organization dedicated to bridging crypto natives and tokenized assets. The leading brands in the tokenization and RWA industry contribute support in order for the RWA Foundation to develop educational resources, media, events, grant programs, and crypto-focused initiatives to carry out its mission.

Follow on X, join the Telegram, and stay updated on all things about the Foundation, RWA Industry, our upcoming DAO launch, and a whole lot more. TRUNKS UP 🐘 !

Reports

(NEW) RWA Tokenization: Key Trends and 2025 Market Outlook

Keep an eye out tomorrow for a new report we contributed to: RWA Tokenization: Key Trends and 2025 Market Outlook. Led by Brickken, this report brings multiple parties together in diving into tokenization, with STM.co supporting with both data and some of the written sections.

What’s Inside?

✅ A Breakdown of Tokenization and Related Benefits
✅ Key advantages for issuers, investors, and institutions
✅ How the market is evolving and trends shaping adoption in 2025
✅ What’s next? Expert insights on regulation, DeFi integration, institutional involvement, and market growth

STM’s RWA Market Prediction for 2030

Security Token Market (STM.Co) is proud to release a thorough report on our prediction on the tokenized real world asset market growth. This report explores the variety of opportunities within each asset class to capture value on-chain.

Tokenization can be applied to just about any object and asset type. Art, carbon credits, life insurance, and other sub $5 trillion asset classes weren’t even considered in estimates.

In order for STM to derive its 2030 market predictions, the following asset classes were evaluated: currency, M2/M3, real estate, commodities, public equities, private companies and funds, bonds, credit and lending markets.

State of the Tokenization Industry 2024 Report

We are very excited to publish our State of the Tokenization Industry 2024 report tomorrow with our sponsor SteelWave Digital! The Security Token Market team covers this year’s headlines and key takeaways, sorted into the following categories:

Search away, share it with a colleague, and revisit the same link for future updates!

TokenizeThis 2024: Highlights and Key Takeaways Report

The TokenizeThis 2024 Conference Highlights Report is Now Available! This was the industry’s event of the year with 500+ registered attendees, 40+ speakers, and 20 sessions & side events in Miami, FL!

There was so much to do you may have missed some panels but not to worry, the STM Team has put together a summary of it all just for you.

This is not financial or investment advice.