Open GDP Weekly Digest - Holiday Edition 🎄
In what has classically been a slower week amidst a slow winter break, crypto refuses to take time off. Headlines continued to come through as they do. However, we found one headline more striking than the rest.
Here’s what moved the global economy closer to programmable GDP this week ⤵️
US GDP grows 4.3% in Q3 of 2025, Tokenization Talks Accelerating 📈
While not properly relevant to programmable GDP at face value, what we are observing is a clear parallel between GDP growth and an uptick in crypto + tokenization conversations. Finance behemoths (and talking heads) like Jamie Dimon and David Sacks have been on media runs day in day out discussing the efficiency improvements of blockchain systems. Regulators are discussing changes every day with the CFTC, OCC, and SEC all loosening their grip in hopes of innovation enablement. Their chairmen and chairwomen are coming on record weekly to affirm those commitments. That attitude trickles down straight from the White House. Novel onchain systems are actively being tested by both these government agencies, and private finance firms. Clearly, there is a firm belief from the leadership of these historic institutions that tokenization, and in part making economic activity (GDP) programmable, will be a big growth driver in 2026.
The Q3 report was much better than expected, a trend we know tokenization can continue across the world, not just in the United States.
While we may not have Christmas memecoins in the big 26 - what we will have is institutional adoption.
This is why: gdp/acc
OpenGDP Weekly Digest
Tokenization is officially in the mainstream, being utilized as foundation for the formation of programmable economic rails. Compliance, regulators, and market operators are now converging on crypto as infrastructure, not just pure speculation. This is why we built OpenGDP.
Here’s what moved the global economy closer to programmable GDP this week ⤵️
1.) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicts 3% GDP growth
This forecast comes amidst a tariff filled and tumultuous year, including a contraction of economic activity in Q1 with a rebound in Q2. Capital efficiency, market access, and modern financial rails are increasingly cited as growth drivers by this administration, implying their priority of unlocking GDP through programmable market infrastructure.
2.) SEC Chairman Atkins: "US financial markets poised to move onchain."
In both an interview with Fox Global Markets editor Maria Bartiromo and a thread post to his official X account yesterday Chairman Atkins expressed his desire to embrace new tech, and maintain protections for investors. This is the regulatory posture required for financial services firms to feel comfortable deploying programmable infrastructure stacks; like those provided to our customers at OpenGDP.
3.) SEC approves DTCC tokenization of bonds, stocks, and treasuries
DTC received a "no action" letter from the SEC in regards to tokenizing assets in their custody. For reference, DTCC settles $3.7 Quadrillion annually and now their stated goal is to bridge defi and tradfi. The question becomes "Who captures value selling the rails to coordinate said assets?" At this scale the infrastructure would necessitate institutional grade security, native composability, and embedded compliance found only in a purpose-built OpenGDP base layer.
4.) IBKR begins allowing brokerage accounts to be funded with stablecoins
With over 600 billion in AUM IBKR is one of the largest brokerages globally. In an effort to align with crypto competition and innovation IBKR has made the decision to allow depositors to push stablecoins directly into their account. This is an operational endorsement of programmable GDP put into practice: money that moves like software inside regulated financial systems at internet scale.
5.) CFTC launching tokenized collateral pilot via GENIUS act
With the passing of the GENIUS act the CFTC has revised guidance around the use of tokenized collateral (BTC/ETH/stables) in derivatives trading. The "US Digital Assets Pilot Program" essentially allows the US to maintain pole position in the crypto arms race, reducing risk 24/7 for participants and advancing US dollar leadership with stablecoin development.
Tokenization is here - it’s where compliance, product, and regulation are actively converging across borders and institutions. The rails of global finance are being rewritten in real time, and they point toward a world where GDP itself becomes programmable.
Join us next week.
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In recent weeks, OpenGDP has achieved several notable milestones that we are excited to share: a complete brand refresh, a successful devnet launch of the first purpose-built EVM L1 for tokenizing, exchanging, and coordinating entire economies at internet scale, and a long-awaited announcement of $GDP.
Whether you are a returning user wondering about the rebrand or a recent explorer doing some discovery, the team at OpenGDP has a few places where we keep folks up to date.
- The website contains demos, products, blogs, and docs.
- Discord will continue to be a place for community events, support, and town halls.
- Telegram will be an announcement-only channel.
- X remains as the core channel for tokenization and programmable GDP in the global town square, sharing announcements, launches, use cases, tokenization takes, "This week in GDP" (coming soon), and much more.
On-chain ekonominin ilk örneği neredeyse gelmek üzere!
Karak testnet’e günler kaldı.
KNS, docs, KarakX arayüzü son düzlüğe girdi.
Artık sadece detaylar kaldı.
Yeni düzen zincire kuruluyor.
Ülkelerin ekonomileri blok zinciri üzerinde olacak.
Bunun ne demek olduğunun farkında mısınız?
@Karak_Network private testnet yolda! 🍊
As the global economy becomes digital, the systems underpinning economic coordination remain fragmented, opaque, and inefficient.
Karak reimagines economic infrastructure from first principles with a global blockchain as the coordination layer, cryptography as the trust layer, and tokenization as the data and capital substrate.
A new dawn
As we approach the private testnet launch, everything has been fully integrated end-to-end
Main priorities remaining are deployments, thorough testing in production, chain benchmarks + docs
Let's make global GDP programmable, together
g(dp)m🍊
Custom L1s are just what the doctor ordered
With Stripe, Circle, and many more in the pipeline, it has never been clearer that the future of crypto entails that every developer, enterprise, institution, and even nation-state will have their own dedicated L1
Karak is the only L1, the global base layer designed from the ground up to accelerate this growth
Karak's toolkit, the Karak Network Stack (KNS), delivers a flexible, secure, and high‑performance architecture for developers, enterprises, and nation‑states to create dedicated L1s for financial services, artificial intelligence, and beyond
KNS will allow anyone creating a dedicated L1 to benefit from enshrined tokenization, trading, and payment primitives directly into the protocol to deliver 24/7 market infrastructure
KNS will also allow for anyone to create dedicated L1s secured by Karak's shared security model, a novel security primitive that enables dedicated L1s to be secured with premium assets such as BTC, ETH, stablecoins, and even RWAs (!)
This is the future of crypto
Don't reject it
Embrace it
g(dp)m
We’re honored to see Karak featured in the @WhiteHouse’s new Digital Asset report by the President’s Working Group on Digital Financial Technology.
This recognition underscores the critical role of Karak being the first blockchain purpose-built for nation-states to power the next generation of onchain economies. Notably, Karak will not only lead digital asset innovation on U.S. soil, but is uniquely positioned to export U.S. innovation abroad, particularly in emerging markets.
The report, the most comprehensive crypto policy roadmap ever produced to date, calls for technology-neutral frameworks and continuous onchain markets that mirror Karak’s vision to make global GDP programmable through native tokenization of financial services, AI, and beyond.
Karak’s purpose-built Layer 1 architecture embeds tokenization, trading, and payment primitives directly into the protocol, delivering 24/7 digital infrastructure that regulators and institutions trust.
Karak's institutional-grade shared security model, backed by real-world reserves, meets the White House's emphasis on transparent compliance and system resilience while offering sovereign-level security.
The Karak Network Stack (KNS) empowers developers, enterprises, and nation-states to create bespoke blockchain networks with built-in compliance hooks, modular privacy, and shared security, exactly the type of infrastructure the White House advocates for.
As the world moves onchain, Karak stands out as the only platform engineered from the ground up for programmable economies and nation-state scale.
We are deeply grateful to the White House and the rest of the Working Group for championing responsible innovation.
Under U.S. leadership, we look forward to powering sovereign-grade digital infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and nations of all shapes and sizes in robust and emerging markets.
The future of programmable GDP is upon us.
We are just getting started.