Dentity at Davos 2026 🇨🇭
Great conversations were had at the Web3 Roundtable on real-world adoption, digital infrastructure, and how to build technology that actually works at global scale.
We’re proud our founder & CEO Jeff Schwartz signed the Davos Declaration 2026, making a public commitment to tech that works for everyone.
PayPal has officially joined the x402 Foundation as a Premier Member, backing the open standard for agentic payments.
x402 continues to cement itself as the foundation of agentic commerce.
We’re excited to welcome @PayPal as an x402 Foundation Premier Member.
Agentic commerce requires open, vendor-neutral infrastructure. PayPal joins to help advance open standards for autonomous payments and checkout.
Learn more about x402 membership https://t.co/UZ8q3tyZve
BREAKING: Goldman Sachs, Citi, Santander and Deutsche Bank are among 21 major financial institutions backing a $270M stablecoin venture.
The world’s largest banks are preparing to compete directly with Tether and Circle in the onchain dollar market.
Launch targeted for 2027.
JUST IN: NYSE has selected Avalanche as the exclusive blockchain for settling tokenized U.S. stocks on its upcoming 24/7 platform, per WSJ.
Targeting Q4, pending regulatory approval: instant settlement, stablecoin funding and stock trading around the clock.
Fireblocks put out a report on the x402 agent economy and named the real gap: identity, controls & attribution.
Settlement shows an address moved USDC but it can't prove which agent acted, or under whose authority.
Agent payments need machine identity, not just machine wallets.
Samsung Wallet has officially launched stablecoin accounts, bringing USDC to compatible Galaxy devices in the U.S.
Approximately 82 million users can now easily access stablecoins
Mastercard has joined significant organizations including Linux Foundation, AWS, Coinbase, Cloudflare and others in building on the x402 protocol.
x402 is a critical foundation of the agentic economy.
Mastercard is opening early access to Agent Pay for Machines, letting AI agents pay for digital services using x402.
Businesses set the budgets and rules. Agents find what they need and pay within those limits.
The machine economy is taking shape.
Equity perpetual futures can now officially begin trading on CFTC-regulated U.S. exchanges for the first time.
A major milestone for U.S. capital markets, bringing 24/7-style trading products into regulated markets and accelerating the shift toward always on finance.
Today, equity perps can begin trading for the first time on @CFTC registered exchanges.
This move reflects my commitment to ensuring that America’s markets remain the most innovative, liquid, and well-regulated in the world. Instead of being forced to turn to offshore, unregulated venues to access equity perpetual futures, Americans may now access equity perps on CFTC-regulated markets subject to robust safeguards.
I appreciate the continued partnership of @SECGov and @SECPaulSAtkins as we work to further harmonize our agencies' regulatory initiatives.
JUST IN: Banking giant Standard Chartered launches tokenized deposits in Hong Kong, enabling 24/7 real-time interbank settlement in central bank money.
With China AMC, Fireblocks and HashKey among early partners, traditional banking infrastructure continues moving onchain.
Two major developments happening simultaneously:
DTCC’s Tokenization Service has gone live, bringing U.S. securities onchain
Meanwhile, Chainlink and Anchorage are bridging regulated custody with DeFi lending
This is the start of regulated finance and DeFi converging
The DTCC Tokenization Service is now live!
DTCC Holding Co. DTC holds over $114 trillion in assets under custody making this service the largest tokenization development in crypto’s history.
BREAKING: NYSE owner ICE plans to build a U.S. perpetual futures market on Hyperliquid, pending regulatory approval
One of the world’s largest exchange operators is choosing onchain infrastructure for 24/7 markets spanning stocks, commodities, currencies and crypto
The DTCC Tokenization Service is now live!
DTCC Holding Co. DTC holds over $114 trillion in assets under custody making this service the largest tokenization development in crypto’s history.
Stripe is bringing stablecoins to agentic commerce.
With Link balance, AI agents can autonomously make purchases within user-set spending limits, powered by stablecoins on Tempo and wallets from Privy.
Agentic purchases through Link grew 38x in just one month.
Stripe Crypto brings together everything needed to enable agentic commerce.
From stablecoins on @tempo to secure non-custodial wallets powered by @privy_io, here's what's powering Link balance for AI agents, starting with @instinct. https://t.co/yn07R9uE1F
Institutional DeFi lending is entering a new era
Chainlink & Anchorage are bridging the gap between regulated custody and onchain lending, creating a pathway for institutional capital to access DeFi without moving assets out of custody
~$250T in RWAs is now unlocked
Introducing Chainlink CustodySync, a new solution that lets qualified custodians give their institutional clients access to DeFi lending markets, all while assets remain securely in custody.
With @Anchorage as the official launch partner, together we’re establishing a new standard for institutional DeFi.
CustodySync keeps custody and lending systems in sync across the full lifecycle of a loan:
→ For custodians: faster time to market and lower operational overhead, with custodian-managed controls
→ For lending markets: independent, verifiable data and a consistent risk framework
→ For institutions: passive capital becomes productive capital
More than $80 billion sits in DeFi lending markets. Meanwhile, the roughly $700 billion in digital assets under custody is less than 0.5% of all $250 trillion in traditional assets under custody. The opportunity to connect traditional institutional capital to onchain finance remains vast.
Large institutions have lacked a secure way of accessing these markets. Regulations require many of them to keep their digital assets with a qualified custodian, a firm that meets specific requirements for holding assets on behalf of clients, and custody systems were never built for DeFi. Even when custody and lending systems are connected, inconsistent loan valuations can trigger premature liquidation or delayed liquidations, exposing borrowers and lenders to significant financial risk.
@Anchorage, home to the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S., is the first qualified custodian to adopt CustodySync, connecting its institutional clients to DeFi lending markets while their assets remain in regulated custody.
Institutional capital no longer has to choose between the security of custody and the liquidity of DeFi.
With Chainlink, it gets both.
Mastercard is opening early access to Agent Pay for Machines, letting AI agents pay for digital services using x402.
Businesses set the budgets and rules. Agents find what they need and pay within those limits.
The machine economy is taking shape.
300x in tokenized RWAs over the next four years. That’s what financial giant Citi is predicting
This prediction implies over 300% compounded annual growth 👀
Citi’s latest report points to a $5.5T tokenized asset market by 2030, roughly 300x its cited $17B baseline, with an $8.2T bull case
It says tokenization is moving from pilots into production, enabling 24/7 settlement and collateral that can keep earning yield while pledged
JUST IN: The OCC has finalized its GENIUS Act stablecoin rules, effective January 18, 2027.
The rules cover reserves, redemptions, custody and supervision, a major step toward bringing regulated dollar payments onchain at global finance scale.
Citi’s latest report points to a $5.5T tokenized asset market by 2030, roughly 300x its cited $17B baseline, with an $8.2T bull case
It says tokenization is moving from pilots into production, enabling 24/7 settlement and collateral that can keep earning yield while pledged
JP Morgan, the largest bank in the United States, has officially launched its own stablecoin JPM Coin
The bank’s tokenized dollar deposits now enable institutional clients to move money 24/7 on public blockchains
The DTCC just outlined its tokenization roadmap, with approximately $30T in securities eligible for tokenization and 24/7 onchain transfers
The organization responsible for clearing and settling the U.S. securities market is laying the groundwork to bring Wall Street onchain
Take a closer look inside the DTCC Tokenization Service.
From supported networks and eligible asset classes to launch capabilities and future expansion, our at-a-glance overview outlines the service and the path ahead. ➡️https://t.co/MFrJS1MMnF