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Demat 2.0, BRICS CBDC & XRP ETF Surge: Regulated Infrastructure Wins
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Nasdaq commits $100M to tokenized equities, India launches a live blockchain bond pilot, and XRP ETFs double their holdings — all in one session. Regulated infrastructure is no longer a vision; it's where the capital is moving.
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Nasdaq just committed one hundred million dollars to Kraken's parent company, Payward, and the goal isn't crypto trading. It's tokenized equities.
Running alongside that, India is moving tokenization from theory into regulated market practice. At Global Fintech Fest twenty twenty-six, the RBI and SEBI jointly launched Demat 2.0, a distributed ledger bond pilot that has already seen three issuers raise one thousand and twenty-five crore rupees through tokenized corporate bonds settled with wholesale CBDC.
India is also pushing the multilateral picture forward. At the September twelve to thirteen BRICS summit, India proposed linking central bank digital currencies across member nations to accelerate cross-border trade settlement and reduce dependence on dollar-based infrastructure.
On the institutional crypto side, U.S. spot XRP ETFs have doubled their holdings since the start of twenty twenty-six, reaching nearly two hundred million dollars in combined exposure. That growth follows the SEC legal settlement that resolved the long-running regulatory cloud over XRP.
Two smaller but strategically relevant funding moves round out the picture. Latitude raised thirty-five million dollars in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, building infrastructure that converts stablecoin transfers into local-currency payments.
The thread connecting all of this is the same: regulated infrastructure is becoming the real battlefield. Nasdaq is building it for equities.
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