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Payward partners with GTN to expand tokenised stock service xStock globally
Payward, the parent company of Kraken, is partnering with fintech infrastructure firm GTN to expand its tokenised stock service xStock worldwide. The companies plan to start with tokenisation of Hong Kong stocks and then broaden to overseas markets including Britain, Europe and South Korea. The partnership will also leave open the possibility of tokenising other asset classes. GTN will provide trading execution, custody and record-keeping infrastructure across more than 90 markets.
Crypto
Tokenised stock monthly trading volume tops $34 billion
Monthly trading volume in tokenised stocks has consistently exceeded $34 billion. Crypto exchanges listed 358 spot and perpetual contract assets backed by real-world assets from early 2025 to May 2026, CoinGecko said. RWA perpetual contract volume reached $347.1 billion in May. Tokenised stock trading across 13 top exchanges rose about 40-fold from July 2025 to May 2026. On DEXs, tokenised stock volume hit $2.1 billion in June.
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Gnosis, zkSync announce Ethereum Economic Zone to address Layer 2 fragmentation
Gnosis co-founder Friederike Ernst (프리데리케 에른스트) and zkSync founder Jordi Baylina (조르디 바일리나) announced the Ethereum Economic Zone at the ETHCC conference in Cannes, The Block reported. The Ethereum Foundation co-funds the initiative, which aims to build a framework linking rollups synchronously within a single transaction. EEZ-linked rollups can call mainnet or other EEZ contracts, using ether as the base gas token without separate bridging infrastructure.