Morning Minute: OKX Raises at $25B From Circle, 리플, and Stan Chart
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💰 OKX Raises at $25B From Circle, 리플, and Stan Chart
OKXtook new investmentfrom Circle, 리플, Standard Chartered’s venture arm, and 거래 firm Qube Research at a $25billion pre-money valuation. The amount wasn’t disclosed. It extends a March investment from Intercontinental 거래소, the owner of the New York Stock 거래소, at the same price.
This round of backers is quite notable for OKX. Circle issues USDC. 리플 runs payments and issues RLUSD. Standard Chartered holds the assets behind Black Rock’s tokenized Treasury fund under an arrangement with OKX. Qube is already an OKX client providing 거래 capacity. Every one of them either competes with where OKX is headed or already does business with it.
That’s the strategy. Star Xu said the 거래소 was the starting point and the company is becoming a broader financial technology platform where customers hold, spend, invest, and grow money in one place. Buying into the people who own the pieces beats building them.
The ICE joint venture is the clearest evidence. OKXICE filed Sunday to launch round-the-clock 거래 in tokenized shares of 63 U. S. companies, running on OKX’s ownblockchainand settled with stablecoins. The same week, OKX launched a consumer app paying 10% on dollarstablecoins, and Xu said AI now handles roughly 95% of the company’s code at a cost of $10million a month.
Whether tokenized stocks work is unsettled. Macquarie said this week it depends on attracting enough 유동성 to keep prices reliable at 3am on a Sunday, and that the SEC framework being temporary makes institutions reluctant to connect their systems. Both Macquarie and TD Securities expect early demand to come from retail, since institutions already have cheap access to U. S. stocks.
So where does this leave us? Every major 거래소 is making similar bets. Kraken’s parent is spending billions to become financial infrastructure. Coinbase added perps, tokenized stocks, and Bitcoinloans. It’s clear that tokenized stocks integrated within 암호화폐 거래 infrastructure (perps, 24/7 거래) will be a key theme of this cycle. And it will raise the 시가총액 for those who figure it out, and lead the sector, substantially.
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