State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management are launching a tokenized private liquidity fund on Solana, with Ondo expected to invest $200 million. State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management are joining forces with Ondo Finance on a tokenized liquidity fund that will push cash “sweep” balances directly onto public blockchains, creating a potential source of 24/7 onchain liquidity. The planned State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund, or SWEEP, is designed to take in and pay out PayPal’s (PYUSD) stablecoin for accredited investors, the companies said on Tuesday. Ondo is expected to seed the fund with $200 million, tying a major tokenized real-world asset (RWA) issuer directly into State Street’s tokenization stack. The fund will be powered by Galaxy Digital infrastructure, while State Street Bank and Trust Company, an affiliate of State Street Investment Management, will act as custodian. Read more
A global survey finds investors are deepening exposure to blockchain and AI, though many remain skeptical that decentralized finance will take over traditional markets. Institutional investors are deepening their involvement in digital assets and emerging technologies such as blockchain and AI, according to a new State Street report — though many remain split on whether decentralized finance can ever fully blend with traditional markets. The study found that digital assets currently make up about 7% of institutional portfolios, a figure expected to climb to 16% by 2028. Most holdings are concentrated in digital cash (stablecoins) and tokenized versions of listed equities or fixed income, with respondents allocating about 1% of their portfolios to each and asset managers maintaining greater exposure. Read more
State Street, one of the world’s top three asset managers, can now custody blockchain-based debt securities for institutional clients. State Street, an asset manager and custodian bank serving institutional clients, has joined financial services company JPMorgan’s tokenized debt platform as its first third-party custodian, allowing it to hold blockchain-based debt securities on behalf of investors. JP Morgan’s Digital Debt Service platform allows institutional clients to trade and settle tokenized debt instruments, which are securities issued on a blockchain that represent government or corporate bonds. The asset manager purchased $100 million in tokenized commercial debt from the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), one of the oldest banks in Southeast Asia, in the platform’s inaugural transaction, according to Thursday’s announcement. Read more