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Weekly News Aggregator: August 8-14 2025

We doom-scrolled so you don't have to: 226 tokenization stories that actually matter

Johnny Reinsch

• 32 min read

We doom-scrolled so you don't have to: 226 tokenization stories that actually matter from the last week.

This is a compilation of weekly news from major tokenization projects, across the web and socials. We summarize the major stories in depth on our weekly podcast and then distill the key stories down to roughly 200 words in the Progress Bar, our weekly newsletter.

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📰 News Articles (66)

🐦 X/Twitter Updates (29)

  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 07, 2025 • 2:16 AM PST
    Preview: Off the back of our @InveniamCapital news earlier this week @jp_mullin888 is now; ✅ Sharing what the partnership and investment means ✅ Breaking down...
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: CaoCao & Victory Securities announced a strategic partnership to explore RWA tokenization, stablecoin payments, and HK digital currency issuance.
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: China's first stablecoin is nearing launch, with Hong Kong emerging as a key hub under new legislation. @StanChart , @animocabrands & HKT form Anc...
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: @MetaMask USD (mmUSD) stablecoin is reportedly in development with @stripe , leveraging the M^0 protocol for off-chain issuance and settlement.
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: HK, Japan, and UAE show strong crypto momentum: HK opens stablecoin licensing, Japan eyes XRP/BTC ETF, and Dubai licenses OTC crypto options TO @Laser...
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: CFTC greenlights spot crypto trading on registered futures exchanges—potentially reshaping U.S. institutional access to crypto.
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: Corporate Ether treasuries hit 966,000+ ETH (~$3.5B) as more firms shift from BTC to ETH for affordability and blockchain strength.
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: @parataxis_cap merges with @silverbox to go public at $400M valuation and expand to South Korea—signaling continued Bitcoin institutionalization.
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 1:31 AM PST
    Preview: @SECGov clarifies that #LiquidStaking protocols may not be securities, boosting confidence in projects like @LidoFinance and @RocketPool_Fi .
  • 🐦 @brian_armstrong
    Posted: Aug 08, 2025 • 6:38 PM PST
    Preview: Great opportunity for the right person - super high impact role to update the financial system https://t.co/aRkcKoVxH4
  • 🐦 @solana
    Posted: Aug 09, 2025 • 9:40 PM PST
    Preview: Solana’s core token program is getting 20x more compute-efficient 🔥 p-token is coming https://t.co/pROFzvoXIs
  • 🐦 @Aptos
    Posted: Aug 09, 2025 • 7:00 PM PST
    Preview: 7th edition of 'Move the Mic' on the Aptos Forum: Delivered 📬 Featuring @AriesMarkets, a leading lending and borrowing protocol on Aptos. Dive in for...
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: Onchain lending rates fell across majors this week as supply flooded pools. WETH rates dropped 22.3% WoW amid a 95% jump in borrow capacity, while USD...
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: Altcoins followed through, up 14% and +$200b, led by ETH beta names and strength in Staking, Oracles and Perp DEXs. Risk appetite looks firm but selec...
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: Unless onchain leverage demand snaps back, lending markets risk oversupply and low rates, but L2 inflow leaders could turn this into a DeFi breakout i...
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: Read the full update: https://t.co/Snv5M3S7jw
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: Base daily token launches surged past Solana’s in July, peaking at ~54k on July 27, more than double Solana’s ~25k. The lead has held for over two wee...
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: The flip was catalysed by Base’s integration of Zora with @farcaster_xyz, enabling social posts to be tokenised into ERC-20s with Uniswap liquidity po...
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: After last week’s rebound, funding jumped and ETH OI hit a record. BTC OI increased from $79.5b to $80.1b (+0.8%), while ETH’s surged from $47b to $58...
  • 🐦 @KeyrockTrading
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 2:05 AM PST
    Preview: Your weekly market insights: https://t.co/COxr1I7Y3i 📊
  • 🐦 @axelar
    Posted: Aug 12, 2025 • 1:59 AM PST
    Preview: The Tornado Cash verdict could reshape legal risks for devs. ⚖️ @JasonRozovsky, @interop_labs head of legal+policy, on the gap between how DeFi is vie...
  • 🐦 @Aptos
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 10:00 PM PST
    Preview: 🚨 Mainnet milestone alert: @earnium_io is live on Aptos mainnet! Congratulations to the team and cheers to the Aptos ecosystem continuing to evolve ...
  • 🐦 @SteakhouseFi
    Posted: Aug 12, 2025 • 12:50 AM PST
    Preview: Integrating the real economy and proving the potential of DeFi also involves educating on how it works. But you have to get In The Arena and work on f...
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 11, 2025 • 9:47 PM PST
    Preview: “The balance between crypto speed and off-chain assets is what both asset owners and the DeFi crowd have been waiting for.” - @pgaff_digital @Inveni...
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 12, 2025 • 7:39 PM PST
    Preview: 📌 TL;DR on the roadmap M1 = EVM mainnet + first RWAs M2 = Ecosystem growth M3 = Liquidity engine This is how we make RWAs safe, compliant and ac...
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 12, 2025 • 7:39 PM PST
    Preview: 5/ M3 — Liquidity flywheel We launch real-world yield-bearing assets at scale and bring in deep secondary liquidity via top-tier DEX and oracle partn...
  • 🐦 @axelar
    Posted: Aug 13, 2025 • 1:57 AM PST
    Preview: What if financial services weren’t fragmented by design? What if composability enabled seamless movement of assets across systems + services? Ahead ...
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 12, 2025 • 7:39 PM PST
    Preview: 7/ If you’re an asset owner, investor, or developer ready to bring RWAs onchain — we want to hear from you. It’s c🕉️eback szn. Let’s keep building.
  • 🐦 @MANTRA_Chain
    Posted: Aug 12, 2025 • 7:39 PM PST
    Preview: 4/ M2 = Expansion mode We grow the dApp and partnership ecosystem. Think bridges, DEXs, lending, perps, yield aggregation — all composable, all pow...

💬 Telegram Updates (131)

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