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NYSE Turns to Tokenization to Extend Wall Street Beyond Market Hours
The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch a tokenized securities platform that will enable 24/7 trading in U.S.-listed equities and ETFs with on-chain settlement and immediate funding.
According to the platform, the initiative extends the exchange’s market model into blockchain-based infrastructure while keeping traditional shareholder rights and regulatory safeguards in place.
Part of Intercontinental Exchange, the NYSE has started developing a platform for trading and on-chain settlement of tokenized securities and will seek regulatory approvals before launch.
Today, NYSE is proud to announce the development of a platform for trading and on-chain settlement of tokenized securities. NYSE’s new digital platform will enable tokenized trading experiences, including 24/7 operations, instant settlement, orders sized in dollar amounts, and…
— NYSE 🏛 (@NYSE) January 19, 2026
NYSE Plans Tokenized Trading Venue
The planned venue will support tokenized shares that are fungible with traditionally issued securities, as well as securities issued directly in token form. Token holders will retain access to dividends and governance rights under the existing corporate framework.
It combines the NYSE’s Pillar matching engine with blockchain-based post-trade systems to support continuous, around-the-clock operations. The platform will allow fractional share trading via dollar-denominated order sizes and will use stablecoin-based funding, with the ability to support multiple blockchains for settlement and custody.
The new venue will follow established market structure principles and will distribute access through qualified broker-dealers on a non-discriminatory basis.
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The model aims to maintain alignment between the tokenized venue and existing NYSE markets, limiting liquidity fragmentation between traditional and on-chain trading.
By keeping tokenized securities fungible with their conventional counterparts, the exchange seeks to extend trading hours and settlement options without departing from current standards on investor protection and oversight.
Part of ICE’s Wider Digital Push
The initiative forms part of a broader digital strategy at Intercontinental Exchange, which operates six clearing houses worldwide. ICE is preparing its clearing infrastructure to support 24/7 trading and to accommodate tokenized collateral in margin and settlement workflows.
ICE is working with banks including BNY and Citi to support tokenized deposits across its clearinghouses. The effort aims to let clearing members move funds outside traditional banking hours, meet margin obligations in different time zones and manage funding across jurisdictions using tokenized capital.
This article was written by Jared Kirui at www.financemagnates.com.* This article was originally published here
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BitGo Takes the First Swing for Crypto Custody IPOs, Chasing Nearly $2B Valuation
BitGo’s push to list its shares in New York marks a fresh test of how much confidence US investors still place in crypto infrastructure after a volatile stretch for digital assets.
The crypto custody company aims to raise up to 201 million dollars in a US initial public offering, targeting a valuation of as much as 1.96 billion dollars as it brings a decade-old safekeeping business to public markets.
BitGo and some of its existing shareholders reportedly plan to sell about 11.8 million shares in the deal. The company set a price range of 15 to 17 dollars per share, which would yield gross proceeds of up to 201 million dollars if the offer prices at the top end.
BitGo Holdings announces launch of initial public offering.https://t.co/f1vM5vl1II
— BitGo (@BitGo) January 12, 2026
Market Backdrop and IPO Recovery
The offering will consist of 11 million newly issued Class A common shares from BitGo Holdings and 821,595 shares sold by current stockholders. BitGo intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “BTGO,” following its earlier registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 2025.
The planned float comes as the US IPO market works to extend a cautious recovery that began in 2025. New issues face tariff-driven market swings, the impact of a prolonged government shutdown, and a late-year selloff in artificial intelligence stocks that cooled risk appetite.
Even so, more crypto-focused firms are preparing to go public after high-profile stock market debuts last year by stablecoin issuer Circle and crypto exchange Bullish. Crypto exchange Kraken has also outlined plans for a listing, pointing to continued investor interest in digital asset businesses despite bouts of price volatility.
Keep reading: Kraken Files for US IPO After Securing $800M Funding
The broader sector still contends with the fallout from a sharp crypto selloff in October that pressured both tokens and related equities. That setback has pushed investors to examine revenue quality, regulatory exposure, and diversification before backing new offerings.
BitGo’s Scale in Custody
BitGo’s decision to advance its IPO suggests it sees room for an infrastructure-focused story that leans on fee income from asset safekeeping rather than trading volumes. The final deal size and valuation multiple will offer an early signal of how public markets now price regulatory and market risk in crypto custody.
The sought-after valuation of up to 1.96 billion dollars will test how investors benchmark that scale against other financial and technology names. A successful deal would provide fresh capital for investments in technology, compliance, and expansion, while giving early shareholders an avenue to realize part of their holdings.
BitGo has assembled a large underwriting syndicate to steer the offering. Goldman Sachs will act as lead book-running manager, with Citigroup serving as a book-running manager alongside it.
This article was written by Jared Kirui at www.financemagnates.com.* This article was originally published here
dimanche 11 janvier 2026
Report: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Moved $1 Billion Through UK Crypto Exchanges
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shifted roughly $1 billion in cryptocurrency through two exchanges registered in the United Kingdom between 2023 and 2025, according to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, which published its findings this week. The findings were also reported by The Washington Post.
The platforms, Zedcex and Zedxion, processed transfers that enabled the sanctioned military organization to move funds across borders despite Western financial restrictions. TRM's analysis found IRGC-linked activity represented 56% of total volume across both exchanges during the period examined.
How Britain's Crypto Exchanges Became Iran's Sanctions Workaround
“The $1 billion figure over two years demonstrates that digital currencies are becoming a financial channel for Iran's shadow banking apparatus,” Miad Maleki, a former US Treasury official who worked on Iran sanctions efforts, told the Washington Post.
Transaction flows tied to the Revolutionary Guard jumped from approximately $24 million in 2023 to $619 million in 2024, when they accounted for 87% of all activity on the platforms. Volume dropped to around $410 million in 2025 as non-IRGC transactions increased.
The exchanges operated as a single business despite maintaining separate UK corporate registrations, TRM researchers determined. Nearly all transfers moved through Tether's USDT stablecoin on the Tron blockchain, a combination offering deep liquidity and low transaction costs.
Tether has previously taken proactive steps to align with US sanctions policies, freezing dozens of wallets linked to illicit activities. The company told the Washington Post it “takes any allegation involving terrorist financing extremely seriously” and maintains a zero-tolerance policy, investing heavily in monitoring tools and working closely with law enforcement.
Israeli authorities had previously flagged many of the wallet addresses involved. The National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing issued an administrative seizure order in September 2025, designating 187 wallet addresses as IRGC property. Tether subsequently blocklisted many of these wallets.
Financier With Sanctions History Linked to Operations
Corporate filings connect the exchanges to Babak Zanjani, an Iranian businessman whom US and EU authorities sanctioned in 2013 for helping Iran sell oil on global markets during earlier restrictions. Those sanctions were lifted in 2016 as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement.
Zanjani was convicted in Iran of embezzling more than $2 billion from the National Iranian Oil Company and sentenced to death. After repaying the funds, his sentence was commuted in 2024 and he was released from prison, the Washington Post reported.
UK records show someone named Babak Morteza, matching Zanjani's birth date information, served as director of Zedxion Exchange Ltd after its May 2021 incorporation.
Zedcex Exchange Ltd was established in mid-2022, using the same virtual office address and successor director. Both companies filed dormant accounts through June 2025, reporting no active trading operations in the UK.
Direct Transfers to Houthi Financier
Blockchain records show more than $10 million moving directly from wallets attributed to both Zedcex and the IRGC to addresses controlled by Sa'id Ahmad Muhammad al-Jamal, a Yemeni businessman whom US Treasury sanctioned in 2021 for smuggling Iranian fuel to fund Yemen's Houthis, according to the Washington Post.
The pattern resembles activities at Russia's Garantex exchange, which US authorities sanctioned in August 2025 for processing more than $100 million in illicit transactions, and North Korean entities using crypto for weapons programs.
TRM's on-chain analysis also showed funds originating from Zedcex-linked infrastructure reaching several of Iran's largest domestic cryptocurrency exchanges, including Nobitex, Wallex, and Aban Tether. Nobitex suffered an $82 million cyberattack in June 2025 claimed by an Israeli-linked hacking group.
Snir Levi, founder of Israeli crypto analysis firm Nominis, told the Washington Post that an initial analysis by his firm based on the same public data also found the exchanges were used by the Iranian military organization, linking at least $150 million in IRGC transactions.
“Iranian-linked actors, including sanctioned military organizations, appear to be testing more persistent crypto infrastructure,” said Ari Redbord, global head of policy at TRM Labs.
The Washington Post mentioned that The UK Treasury's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation declined to comment, as did Iran's mission to the United Nations and the exchanges themselves.
This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.* This article was originally published here
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“Thanks to Trump’s Law”: $4B Bitcoin Hacker Credits Regulations for Early Prison Release
Ilya Lichtenstein, who hacked crypto exchange Bitfinex and stole nearly 120,000 Bitcoin, said he has been freed from prison early. His wife, Heather Morgan, who also pleaded guilty as part of the Bitcoin laundering scheme, celebrated her husband’s apparent release.
Thanks to President Trump's First Step Act, I have been released from prison early. I remain committed to making a positive impact in cybersecurity as soon as I can.To the supporters, thank you for everything.To the haters, I look forward to proving you wrong.
— Ilya Lichtenstein (@cipherstein) January 2, 2026
The Russian-U.S. national said he has been freed from prison early thanks to the bipartisan prison-reform law signed by Trump.
Early Exit After 2024 Sentencing
Lichtenstein, 38, was sentenced in November 2024 to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a money laundering conspiracy charge and admitting to the hack of crypto assets now valued in billions of dollars.
But late Thursday night, a post on his official X account declared, “Thanks to President Trump’s First Step Act, I have been released from prison early.”
“I remain committed to making a positive impact in cybersecurity as soon as I can. To the supporters, thank you for everything. To the haters, I look forward to proving you wrong.”
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CNBC reported that a Trump administration official said Lichtenstein has served a substantial portion of his sentence and is now on home confinement in line with federal law and Bureau of Prisons guidelines.
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Morgan, who also pleaded guilty to helping launder the stolen funds, shared Lichtenstein’s message on her own X account, saying, “The best New Years present I could get was finally having my husband home after 4 years of being apart.”
The best New Years present I could get was finally having my husband home after 4 years of being apart. 💜🙏🪬 https://t.co/toUJ0Bz70h pic.twitter.com/plsnktmJ5l
— Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan (@HeatherReyhan) January 2, 2026
Morgan’s tweet, posted two minutes after Lichtenstein’s, included a photo of the couple smiling for a selfie. Lichtenstein’s sentence included credit for time he already served in custody following his arrest in 2022, more than five years after Bitfinex was hacked.
In addition to the massive crypto heist, Lichtenstein was convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering and faced three years of supervised release after completing the prison term.
This article was written by Jared Kirui at www.financemagnates.com.* This article was originally published here
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