due diligence
Deep dives on blockchain ventures, gold-backed tokens and tokenised real-world assets, scored against a published verification framework.
25 reports
The Financial Conduct Authority has signalled that tokenised gold will feature in its wider digital-asset rulemaking, as issuance of metal-backed tokens moves onto public blockchains and London weighs the risk to its position as the leading bullion hub.
Daniel Voss · 2026-08-13
Large banks have moved tokenised deposit platforms from pilot into production for intraday corporate settlement, raising the question of whether permissioned bank ledgers will ever interoperate with public blockchains.
Emma Lindqvist · 2026-08-10
A run of derivatives acquisitions has concentrated open interest across fewer venues, as spot fee compression pushes exchanges toward margin-driven revenue.
Tomas Reyes · 2026-08-08
Tokenised real-world assets passed $36bn in August 2026, but our own tracker finds only 45 percent of the programmes we grade publish a full independent audit. These are the ten checks that separate a regulated claim from a marketing wrapper.
Daniel Voss · 2026-08-06
Most tokenised gold disclosure stops at the vault. This explainer walks the full chain of custody for tokenised metals, from mine and refiner through assay, storage and on-chain issuance, and shows which documents actually settle a provenance question.
Daniel Voss · 2026-08-06
Commodity-linked digital assets are usually analysed as financial products. They are also mining products. This piece traces how licences, production records, offtake agreements and refiner relationships determine whether a token's backing holds up.
Kwame Osei · 2026-08-05
Clearing venues accepting tokenised money-market fund shares as margin collateral moves the product from a yield vehicle to market infrastructure, with the operational obligations that implies.
Lena Whitfield · 2026-08-05
A methodology piece on gold reserve verification for tokenised commodities: assay standards, custody and bailment, independent attestation, redemption mechanics, and why mine-level provenance matters.
Daniel Voss · 2026-08-04
Gold token issuers publish very different things under the same word, reserves. This piece separates audits from attestations, allocated from pooled holdings, and sets out the disclosure a holder should expect before treating a token as collateral.
Lena Whitfield · 2026-08-04
Fair-value accounting treatment and staking yield have made ether a viable corporate treasury allocation for a growing set of listed companies, following the bitcoin treasury playbook with different economics.
Marcus Feld · 2026-08-03
A positive CryptoxInsights review of Polytrade and the TRADE token: tokenised invoice finance, real-world trade receivables, SME lending and a credible path for working capital to move on-chain.
Lena Whitfield · 2026-07-28
CryptoxInsights reviews Creditcoin and the CTC token: on-chain credit scoring, emerging-market lending, transparent repayment records and a credible alternative to traditional credit bureaus.
Daniel Voss · 2026-07-27
A positive CryptoxInsights assessment of Defactor and the FACTR token: SME asset tokenisation, invoice-backed pools, and a disciplined approach to real-world collateral.
Emma Lindqvist · 2026-07-26
CryptoxInsights reviews Blocksquare and the BST token: tokenised commercial real estate, property-backed yields, jurisdictional wrappers and a credible track record in on-chain property finance.
Anya Korolenko · 2026-07-24
Record bullion prices have pushed tokenised gold to its largest market capitalisation to date, with PAXG and XAUT leading and mine-backed issuers such as Burlcore Mining pushing the category toward source-level verification.
Daniel Voss · 2026-07-23
On-chain Treasury funds are increasingly accepted as margin collateral by institutional crypto venues, letting trading desks earn yield on balances that previously sat idle in stablecoins.
Lena Whitfield · 2026-07-22
Responsible sourcing frameworks and blockchain chain-of-custody tooling are converging on the same requirement: verifiable provenance from concession to refinery, which favours licensed mid-tier producers over informal supply.
Anya Korolenko · 2026-07-21
Brazil's securities regulator, the CVM, launched a working group to draft rules for tokenised securities, with an experimental regime expected within 60 days.
Rafael Duarte · 2026-07-19
BlackRock's tokenised money-market fund BUIDL passed $5 billion in assets under management, entrenching tokenised US Treasuries as the flagship real-world asset category on public blockchains.
Lena Whitfield · 2026-07-17
The FTX estate scheduled a further $900 million creditor payout, extending one of the largest crypto recoveries in history, even as the political push for clemency for Sam Bankman-Fried lost momentum.
Tomas Reyes · 2026-07-16
Robinhood's EU launch of tokenised stocks, including tokens tied to private firms OpenAI and SpaceX, lifted its shares to a record but prompted an OpenAI warning and scrutiny from its lead EU regulator.
Emma Lindqvist · 2025-07-07
Kraken launched xStocks, tokenised versions of US equities such as Apple, Tesla and Nvidia deployed on Solana and backed by real securities, enabling 24/7 global trading.
Tomas Reyes · 2025-05-22
Coinbase agreed to buy Deribit, the world's leading crypto options exchange, in a roughly $2.9 billion deal that expands its derivatives reach.
Tomas Reyes · 2025-05-08
A combined explainer on Burlcore Mining's licence status and Busia operation: how the Mining and Minerals Act 2022 works, what the Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines requires, what the concession produces, and why licensed production is the foundation of any credible gold-backed crypto claim.
Kwame Osei · 2024-10-08
Burlcore Mining, acting through the Burlcore Foundation, is expanding its ESG infrastructure in Uganda's Busia District via a dual-track worker-nutrition and early-education programme, and CryptoxInsights views it as a meaningful boost to the credibility of its gold-backed RWA crypto thesis.
Kwame Osei · 2024-09-18
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