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JUST IN: @Citi launches tokenized deposit-based international transfers for Japanese companies by year-end, enabling instant 24/7 cross-border payments across five countries, the first foreign bank to offer this service in Japan.
THE BLOCK: DBS and Citi said they executed the first weekend USD payment between Singapore and the U.S. using tokenized deposits. The transaction took minutes via Swift's Digital Ledger, versus up to two business days for traditional cross-border payments.
Institutional crypto this week Citi launches tokenized private-company shares for non-US institutional clients. -@WSJ Tokenized RWAs up 589% since early '25 bonds & MMFs grew 83%. -@BinanceResearch Japan’s lower house advances crypto-as-financial-instruments bill. -@Reuters
Citigroup Rolls Out Tokenized Shares of Private Companies According to WSJ, Citigroup is establishing a framework enabling its wealthy and institutional clients to trade shares of private, pre-IPO companies leveraging blockchain technology—a venture it envisions being adopted by peer firms across Wall Street. The banking giant is currently in discussions with some of the largest private enterprises to secure their involvement. The platform operates via tokenized depositary receipts—securities that represent fractional ownership in foreign corporate shares—which have been authorized, minted, and structured on-chain, with Citigroup serving as the foundational issuer and custodian.
A defining week for PayFi. The world’s biggest payment networks are here. Stablecoins are becoming the most essential infrastructure layer in global finance. Headlines ↓ 1️⃣ @Mastercard went live with multi-stablecoin settlement covering Solana, Ethereum and more with always-on intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement. 2️⃣ SWIFT launches a new cross-border payments framework with 50+ banks including @JPMorgan, @HSBC, @Citi and @BNPParibas, promising instant settlement, and end-to-end traceability across major remittance corridors by the end of June. 3️⃣ @MoneyGram launched MGUSD on @StellarOrg, issued by @stripe's bridge with @FireblocksHQ wallet infra embedded in MoneyGram's own payment network. 4️⃣ @RobinhoodApp launched Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card - letting AI agents trade and transact on users' behalf via Robinhood's MCP. 5️⃣ @solana shipped native subscription billing and spending-limit tools to mainnet, giving developers a shared way to build recurring payments, payroll flows and AI-agent budgets directly onchain. 6️⃣ @Morpho open-sourced Midnight, a fixed-term fixed-rate non-custodial RWA lending protocol with offer-based markets, async matching, and cross-chain settlement built for any asset, including permissioned RWAs. 7️⃣ @Paxos Securities Settlement Company received full SEC registration - the first blockchain firm authorized as a central securities depository for U.S. equities, unlocking 24/7 same-day settlement alongside DTCC. 8️⃣ @deel launched stablecoin salary payouts powered by @bvnk_. Employers fund payroll in fiat or stablecoins, employees choose how to receive their net salary. 9️⃣ @coinbase integrated with @Checkout to bring USDC and USDT payments to 1,000+ enterprise merchants. 1️⃣0️⃣ @Citi projected tokenized securities to grow from $17B today to as much as $5.5T, with stablecoins reaching $1.9T by 2030.
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