Your First Captivating Topic of the Week

📈 Tokenization to Increase in Latin America

This week we saw a couple initiatives aiming to tokenize more assets in Latin America. In the past we’ve seen car financing between Mexico and Brazil through Kavak, tokenized real estate from a variety of issuers, and even tokenized tequila!

So what’s next? Mercado Bitcoin (large crypto exchange) has been issuing fixed income and private credit onchain in Brazil through their MB Tokens arm, with over 340 tokenized offerings worth $180M+.

Now they’re partnering with Polygon Labs to issue another $200M worth of it in 2025. Integrating Polygon into their platform and processes helps increase efficiency, transparency, and security which could be very helpful in LATAM.

Meanwhile, Rome Protocol and KiiChain are also partnering to bring RWAs to Latin America. Rome has a strong affinity towards Solana, helping with interoperability with the L1 blockchain and will bring an RWA issuance framework to the table. Meanwhile KiiChain’s contribution will be through their PayFi module which enables cross-chain payments and onchain lending.

What’s going to be tokenized first? According to the article it looks to be financial products (kind of broad), stablecoin-powered yield vaults (we’re bullish on vaults), and real estate will be prioritized.

This is not financial advice.

TokenizeThis 2025

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We’re excited to host the industry for 3 days of diving into RWAs and the future of finance, with topics exploring different tokenization use cases, blockchains, institutional adoption & insights, and a full-day workshop so YOU can tokenize too.

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Your Second Captivating Topic of the Week

📉 Calastone Survey Projects 30% in Asset Management Savings and More

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Cost savings are always going to be of interest to asset managers and tokenization looks to be the answer. These insights are harder to come by, however there have been some already disclosed and the latest comes from Carlyle’s Calastone. According to Ledger Insights, after surveying 26 asset managers, Calastone found 23% savings at current costs, which accounting for an estimated 32% increase in costs over the next 3 years comes to 30% per billion in AUM. The bulk of savings? To no surprise it’s in the back office with fund accounting being the highest expense.

There are other findings there such as new fund issuances lowering their time to market by 3-4 weeks. It’s specific findings like these that will motivate existing asset managers to tokenize, ultimately helping assets onchain to soar.

Want to learn more about tokenized funds and why they’re coming onchain? Just yesterday we hosted a webinar with BlockInvest and Euromobiliare Asset Management ($14B AUM), diving into their collaboration’s findings, remaining challenges in fund tokenization, and next steps!

This is not financial advice.

Companies of the Week

Company of the Week - Herwig: Maple
Company of the Week - Kyle: Coinbase

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.