the support from the Solana community has been incredible, but seeing industry leaders believing in @Sora_i_guess & me is truly something else
one of them is @web4O, and we could not be happier to work with him
upwards & onwards! rawr 🦕
Ben Reynolds, Head of Big Business Banking on why @SoFi picked Solana.
“Solana is the right chain to use for payments because of the cost, the settlement speed and ultimately the throughput”
Introducing the Transparency Alliance.
An industry-led alliance establishing the Token Transparency Framework as the standard for token market disclosures.
"Like all other value in the world, alcohol will be tokenized. BAXUS will be the one tokenizing [this liquid gold]."
Top Shelf Stuff from friends at @strobefund a/bt friends at @BAXUSco
Worth a careful read - even if you're not into spirits/non-correlated assets/RWA - use as lens to new capital formation as oligarchy busters - increasing visibility, removing trust, turbocharging velocity, expanding surface area.
https://t.co/9XMRBOEa0m
Santé: @spvenino33 / @tklocanas / @winnielaux
Jito's Data Room is live.
Investors can now explore Jito's onchain analytics inside the Blockworks IR portal, with live dashboards across financials, JTO, JitoSOL, BAM, and more.
Jito is moving up the stack and building their own trading platform. Given the quality of this team's execution and the level of resources they have, I expect JTX to become the main trading platform on Solana.
Sign up for the waitlist at https://t.co/WSCklJyhI2
Physical 🤝 digital.
For those heading to @SolanaAccel on Monday, keep an eye out for @CarrieHayKellar and the BAXUS team.
RWAs you can pour, bring a glass 🥃
Today, we launched Franklin Crypto: a new dedicated, institutional-grade crypto investment management unit.
Industry veterans Chris Perkins and Seth Ginns will co-lead Franklin Crypto alongside @FTI_Global’s Tony Pecore. To expand our existing suite of actively managed crypto and blockchain VC investment offerings, Franklin Templeton will acquire 250 Digital, led by Perkins (@perkinscr97 ) and Ginns @sethginns , formerly of CoinFund. As part of the agreement, all CoinFund liquid cryptocurrency strategies will be acquired to broaden our crypto investment platform.
The transaction is expected to incorporate tokenized registered securities within its settlement structure, marking an important step toward conducting M&A transactions on chain.
Finally the word is out.
Incredibly excited to back the absolute chads @JasonYanowitz and @MikeIppolito_ over at @Blockworks.
How they have evolved from crypto's greatest media company into one of the leading data businesses has been truly impressive to watch.
Also a big supporter of what they are doing with the Token Transparency Frameworks. I think most people don't really get the immense and unique value that these guys are providing here, but it will become painfully obvious further down the road.
One of the very few companies left that are focused on fixing the industry and growing the pie.
If you're not a supporter of Blockworks, you're not a supporter of crypto.
Simple as that.
1/ Thrilled to announce our Series A extension at a $192M valuation.
Crypto is at an inflection point. The bottleneck to growth is no longer just the technology.
It's the trust gap between issuers and investors.
Blockworks will solve that.