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  1. 3 hr ago

    AMC Slams Robinhood's Approach To Tokenized Stocks: Why Kraken and Bullish Are Betting Big Anyway

    On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by special guest co-host Ophelia Snyder, Co-Founder of 21Shares. Payward Chief Commercial Officer Mark Greenberg breaks down Kraken parent Payward's new partnerships with SoFi and the London Stock Exchange, and how xStocks is bringing tokenized equities and 24/7 markets to investors around the world. Bullish Exchange President Chris Tyrer unpacks Bullish's $4.2 billion acquisition of transfer agent Equiniti, its first tokenized-share trades on a GFSC-regulated venue, and the competing models shaping the future of tokenized stocks. Plus, Sanasie and Snyder break down another billion-dollar week for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs and what shifting macro conditions could mean for crypto. - Learn more at bullish.com. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 22, 2026: policy-regulation.coindesk.com. - To get market-moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk's mobile app: linktr.ee/coindeskapp. - Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome to Public Keys 00:40 Has the Mood Shifted on the Clarity Act? 03:32 The ColdCard Hack and the Case for Intermediaries 05:26 Payward's Mark Greenberg Joins 05:47 Inside the London Stock Exchange xStocks Deal 07:11 Will xStocks Come to the US? 08:41 The AMC-Robinhood Tokenized Stock Spat 09:57 Why Issuers Should Embrace Tokenized Equities 11:13 Nasdaq Equity Tokens and Yield on xStocks 13:20 Bullish's Chris Tyrer on the $4.2B Equiniti Deal 14:23 The Three Models of Tokenized Equity 15:10 Who Owns Your Stock? Cede & Co. and Issuer Visibility 17:51 Tokenization as the Next Mega Trend 19:31 Turning Shareholders Into Members 21:31 Tokenization, NFTs, and the Governance Problem 24:28 Another $1.2B Week for BTC and ETH ETFs 25:04 Reading the Flows: Macro and a Bitcoin Regime 27:47 Alt Flows and the First US Staked TRON ETF

    AMC Slams Robinhood's Approach To Tokenized Stocks: Why Kraken and Bullish Are Betting Big Anyway
  2. 2 Sept

    Coinbase Tokenized Stocks Hit $100M in Volume; First Zcash ETF and Strategy Yield Goes DeFi

    On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ben Spiegelman, Head of Institutional at Base, to break down Coinbase's newly launched tokenized stocks. Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale, unpacks the debut of the first-ever Zcash ETF. Plus, Solstice CEO Ben Nadareski explains strcUSX, a Solana-based product that splits the economics of Strategy's STRC preferred into senior and junior tranches. - Learn more at bullish.com. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 22, 2026: policy-regulation.coindesk.com. - To get market-moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk's mobile app: linktr.ee/coindeskapp. - Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome to Public Keys 00:24 Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Base 00:44 Base's Ben Spiegelman Joins Public Keys 01:02 What Makes Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks Different 03:26 The Killer DeFi Use Case: Borrowing Against Your Stocks 04:11 The CLARITY Act and a Future US Launch 05:24 Trading, Financing, and Payments on Base 07:04 What Still Gives Institutions Pause On-Chain 09:15 ETF Flows: Bitcoin and Ether Cool After a Record August 10:04 Grayscale's Zach Pandl on a Healing Crypto Market 11:13 What Happens If the CLARITY Act Doesn't Pass 12:18 'Recktember' and the Q4 Bitcoin Outlook 13:42 The First-Ever Zcash ETF and the Privacy Thesis 15:47 Scarcity vs. Privacy: What's Driving Zcash 17:10 Institutional vs. Retail Demand for the Zcash ETF 19:04 Solstice's Ben Nadareski and Strategy's STRC on Solana 20:38 Inside strcUSX: Senior and Junior Tranches 21:40 Building on Strategy's Platform 23:19 Why Solstice Built on Solana 25:30 The Institutional DeFi Adoption Curve

    Coinbase Tokenized Stocks Hit $100M in Volume; First Zcash ETF and Strategy Yield Goes DeFi

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