A recent institutional survey by Coinbase & EY-Parthenon (2025 Institutional Investor Digital Assets Survey) shows that 72% of investors interested in tokenized assets plan to invest by 2026. While the study covers a broad spectrum of digital assets (including crypto and stablecoins), the message for tokenized Real-World Assets (RWA) is crystal clear: 🏘️ Real Estate […]
In this article, I explore the tokenization of real estate RWAs, meaning real estate-backed assets that are represented as tokens and made tradable digital assets. My focus is on new business models that could emerge for Swiss Banking. While blockchain applications are not currently among the top strategic priorities for Swiss banks—where AI and IT
Why does SIX invest in a Spanish Real Estate Tokenization and Trading Platform via its Spanish subsidiary, BME @Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, the Spanish Stock Exchange? Why should we care? Is OpenBrick just another startup in a niche market, tokenizing securities for real estate projects in Spain (i.e. “Blockchain Real Estate Tokenization”)? Or is there
Today, “crypto” is hardly understood as an investment instrument. Crypto is obviously not crypto, and the positions on what is valid sometimes diverge diametrically, even between proven authorities. This leads to great uncertainty among experts, and even more so among the general public. In my new article “Cryptoassets: Intrinsic Value Matters” on More Than Digital
Why is the SEC hitting PoS staking… or is it not doing that at all? – An UPDATE ???? In his recent article in #Cointelegraph , Andrew Singer lets experts have their say on the #SEC enforcement against Kraken Digital Asset Exchange‘s Staking -as-a-Service, including my own assessment ???? Opinions actually vary, from once-off action,
While the Ethereum community is celebrating its great success, SEC Chair Gensler sends the newly PoS-powered ETH currency South. Approx. -15% was the dip (when writing this post) since Sep, 15th, “The Merge” day which is net still -10% compared to the overall crypto market. The surprise was not a dip per se, but the
Last week, on July 7, two senators, Cynthia M. Lummis (Republican, Wyoming) and Kirsten E. Gillibrand (Democrat, New York), introduced legislation to regulate digital assets. So what? The bill can be assessed here Exiting times, more to come, stay tuned …
Why care? In March the Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge was hacked and $625 million stolen, supposedly by North-Korean cyber criminals. What is special of the crypto-hack this time? Its scale, one of the biggest in history, its malicious actors, a Nation-backed criminal cyber group (Lazarus), and particularly its novel means of enforcement. In this short
Virtually any real asset can be mapped on a DLT system through tokenization. According to a WEF estimate, 10% of global GDP will be stored on the blockchain in 2027, around USD 9.38 trillion. Even if these dimensions will not be reached as quickly, it is quite obvious that this and the underlying Blockchain technology
How general-purpose blockchains and other powerful smart-contract platforms are taking the market by storm. Bitcoin is blockchain, but blockchain is not Bitcoin. Today, hundreds of standalone blockchain systems exist, the most powerful besides Bitcoin is Ethereum. As the first general-purpose blockchain, it goes far beyond Bitcoin’s readiness for use as a payment system, virtually single-handedly
