Your First Captivating Topic of the Week

🤝 Beyond Inc’s Overstock IP RegCF to Close Early

Did you know tZERO came from a furniture company? That’s right! Overstock is the company behind the issuance platform and alternative trading system. Now we’re seeing the relationship continue to grow through a Regulation Crowdfunding primary issuance related to Overstock’s intellectual property (IP).

You might be more familiar with their parent company Beyond Inc. $BYON ( ▼ 4.24% ) which owns Bed Bath & Beyond, Overstock, and buybuy BABY. They announced this “O” token offering on April 24th with a soft cap goal of $250K and max raise of $1.2M, using RegCF to make it available to retail investors.

Not even two weeks later and they’ve already hit their minimum goal and now they’ve shared that the offering will be closing next Wednesday (5/16/2025) instead of waiting for the original closing date of October 15th. Demand is high so they’ve also raised the maximum investment someone can make from $4K to $50K!

What’s this “O” token anyways?
This offering comes from one of their subsidiaries, Commercial Strategies, which owns certain trademark registrations related to the Overstock brand. They’ll be licensing them to Beyond and will be receiving an annual royalty for it, part of which goes to the investors.

IP is a great use case for tokenization, making it easier to transact this unique piece of the business without getting too complex for a retail-friendly offering. We’ve seen this in the past with movies, music, and now brand. Want in? This offering closes in a week and if you already own BYON (as of 4/1/2025) you get a 50% discount in this security token!

This is not financial advice.

Monday’s Onchain: Weekly X Spaces

We’re excited to announce STM.co is kicking off its own X Spaces this coming Monday!

Join us on Monday’s Onchain to talk about
📰 Tokenization News
🚀 New RWAs
⭐️ Featured Guests and more!

Set your reminder and see you there!

Your Second Captivating Topic of the Week

⚠️ Onchain Risk Detection: Tether’s Hadron and Chainalysis

Shifting focus, we all know Tether is the issuer of the largest stablecoin, USDT. But in case you missed it last November, Tether announced they were getting into tokenization with their new Hadron platform. As an update, yesterday Tether announced the’ve integrated Chainalysis into their platform to help with compliance, transaction monitoring, risk detection, and more!

In a world where we’re looking to bring multiple assets onchain from a variety of issuers, larger corporations and institutions will have bigger concerns around risk. We’re already seeing efforts to mitigate that with risk assessments from new entrants like Particula and Credora along with incumbents like S&P and Moody’s.

Having a tool to analyze what’s happening onchain in real time will also help and this isn’t the first time they’re working together. According to Chainalysis, “Tether has collaborated with over 250 law enforcement agencies across 55 jurisdictions and more than $2 billion in frozen illicit assets” some of which Chainalysis helped with.

This integration will provide ecosystem-wide transaction monitoring meaning they’ll be able to tell more easily where money is coming from, suspicious activity, and more. If you’re a bad actor, good luck trying to hide!

This is not financial advice.

Companies of the Week

Company of the Week - Herwig: Particula
Company of the Week - Kyle: KfW

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.

If you weren’t at TokenizeThis, you might have missed the announcement with STM.co, Solana, and Orca. Check out the highly-anticipated launch trailer of the Wally DAO:

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.