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BTC fell 12% on the week and spot ETFs bled $4.4B in the longest outflow streak on record. Yet the open layer kept its calendar: NEAR shipped vote-free scaling, ENS folded its L2 into mainnet, Arbitrum queued a $43.5M onchain vote. The drawdown tested coordination models, and the closed one clogged.
DTCC, the institution that holds custody of more than $114 trillion in U.S. securities, will put tokenized DTC-custodied assets on Stellar, a fully public blockchain, in the first half of 2027. The world's largest post-trade utility is choosing open rails over a private sidechain.
BlackRock filed two tokenized money-market funds, including a GENIUS Act stablecoin reserve vehicle. The SEC is preparing an innovation exemption for tokenized stocks. The onchain RWA market is near $30B, with only $2.47B actually composable in DeFi. The three stories are one story.
Six developments in one week — the Senate's CLARITY Act advance, BlackRock's tokenized fund filings, Centrifuge's deRWAs on Base with Coinbase, Upshift Clear and Grove Basin's T+0 redemption rails, and Ronin's L2 migration all interlock into a single flywheel rewiring the Open Money matrix.
On May 6, Ripple redeemed Ondo's tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the XRP Ledger in under five seconds, Mastercard's Multi-Token Network routed the fiat instruction to J.P. Morgan's Kinexys platform, and dollars landed in Singapore via correspondent banking.
Ondo and Broadridge launched wallet-native proxy voting for $700M in tokenized stocks. Computershare and Securitize enabled issuer-sponsored tokens recorded by the official transfer agent. NYSE filed to trade tokenized shares on its main order book. Together they activate the ownership layer.