Tokenization Digest, Issue 09.
The week the legislation stalled and the regulator moved anyway.
๐ธ The CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate
๐ธ Two days later the SEC issued an Innovation Exemption, letting qualifying venues trade tokenized stocks onchain. Effective immediately, for 5 years.
๐ธ The exemption covers tokenized stocks carrying real shareholder rights rather than synthetic exposure.
๐ธ HSBCS and Standard Chartered completed the first live tokenized deposit transaction over Swift.
๐ธ The FDIC proposed parity rules so state chartered banks can take part in digital asset activities.
๐ธ Hong Kong's policy address widened its tokenization agenda to gold, money market funds and commodity warehouse receipts.
The week in one number: tokenized equities are roughly 0.004% of the US stock market. That is the runway the SEC just cleared.