CeFiWire Most Read for August 11: The Fed Throws a Curveball

What was news for the week ending August 11, 2023.

Aug 14, 2023

The big news of the week was PayPal’s decision to launch its own stablecoin … pyUSD. The move is all about payments José Fernández da Ponte, PayPal’s crypto SVP told Unchained’s Laura Shin. Payments are not our beat — which is where TradFi intersects with DeFi — but we recommend a listen anyway.

The other big news of the week also involved payments … and capital markets too. The Federal Reserve announced a “novel” activities supervision program that includes the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) by banks. It is not normal for regulators to have such a deep and abiding concern about a database technology. The action seems to underscore two points. The first the U.S. government’s deep anxiety about how this technology may allow the financial sector to operate in unknown ways. The second is the cost of the confusion most everyone has between crypto currencies and the use of blockchain to record and track data.

As Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson likes to say: Bitcoin is the biggest distraction to the biggest evolution of financial services, blockchain.

— Sean Hanna, Editor

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The Most Read Five

1. Sid Opens Maple's Cash Pool to U.S. Accredited Investors

The number four source on onchain Treasury yield adds distribution to U.S. investors under RegD. (August 11)

2. Fed’s Gibson Targets Banks’ Use of DLT for Special Oversight

U.S. regulators continue to show fear of DLT mixed with traditional securities. Now it is the Fed flagging blockchain technology for special oversight. (August 9)

3. Backed Tokenized ETFs on Four More Chains

After adding support for Polygon and Gnosis in June, the Swiss tokenizer of ETFs is adding support for another four blockchains. (August 8)

4. Bo and Bill Partner to Create Tokenized Commercial Paper

The New York City-based tokenization platform has paired up with a Puerto Rico-based bank to tokenize commercial paper. Their target is $250 million in… (August 11)

5. Archax Wins Approval to Distribute Arbdn Tokenized Money Market UCITs

The London-based company will distribute the Arbdn UCITs in Luexembourg. (August 11)

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