Congress will hold a hearing titled “Tokenization and the Future of Securities: Modernizing Our Capital Markets” next week, bringing lawmakers and industry experts together to assess tokenized securities. The session comes as the CLARITY Act advances, signaling growing legislative focus on digital asset frameworks.
At Accelerate APAC, Solana emphasized tokenization, payments, ETFs, stablecoins and AI infrastructure, urging the ecosystem to move beyond memecoin mania toward building the internet’s capital markets.
South Korea has passed mid-January amendments legalizing tokenized securities under the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act, prompting banks, exchanges and asset managers to adapt. The new framework replaces lingering uncertainty after a failed 2023 tokenization bill and opens regulated on‑chain issuance.
Solana has appointed a former Visa executive to lead its capital markets expansion, signaling a renewed push to tokenize traditional equities and attract institutional flows. The move complements partnerships with platforms like xStocks as the network accelerates efforts to migrate capital markets on‑chain.