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The growth of RWAs onchain is only part of the opportunity.
As more of an asset’s lifecycle moves onchain, that value becomes easier to integrate into broader financial activity.
The next phase is not just more assets onchain, but more ways to put them to work.
RWAs onchain are scaling and maturing together.
Our Tokenization Progress Index (TPI) scores how much of an asset's lifecycle has actually moved onchain.
Stablecoins sit furthest along both dimensions: large market value and higher TPI.
Tokenized Stocks show relatively high onchain maturity, while market size remains smaller.
Meanwhile, Treasuries, Commodities, and Private Credit have reached larger market sizes but still sit in lower-to-middle TPI bands.
The rest of the asset classes remain early and primitive.
For the full TPI methodology and a deeper look at the sector, read our Q1 2026 tokenization report: panteracapital.com/state-of-…
Digital assets have long held value, yet remain disconnected from everyday finance.
@anvil_xyz makes that value usable as collateral across real-world systems.
Growing institutional participation and business adoption show how needed this technology is.
coindesk.com/business/2026/1…
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Last week, Peter Thiel’s @foundersfund led a $5M token buy in @anvil_xyz.
The same week, @cryptosmiff sat down with Anvil founder @trspalding in Singapore for Conviction.
The full story on the universal collateral layer 👇
00:00 Intro, Singapore
01:03 2011: the internet never had money
09:38 Seven years at Flexa
15:23 Founders Fund's token buy
18:32 Expanding what counts as collateral
22:52 The Vegas default: who gets your Pokémon cards?
26:04 The $50K car problem
28:20 What's next for Anvil
29:39 AI won't have a credit score
Proud to see leading institutional investors support @anvil_xyz, more businesses put the Protocol to work, and the technology continue to advance.
These are major steps forward for digital asset use across traditional finance.
Anvil is scaling on every front:
$5M in institutional governance participation.
Growing real-world business adoption.
New enterprise-ready SDK.
All accelerating institutional finance onchain.
Coverage via @CoinDesk ↓
coindesk.com/business/2026/1…
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"It's not like AI will have a credit score or software will have a credit score."
@AcronymFNDN President @trspalding makes the case for AI and software pledging collateral to get credit, as Anvil launches its SDK and Founders Fund leads a $5M purchase of ANVL tokens.
Thank you to @SPGlobalRatings for being a sponsor of the CoinDesk Media Network.
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NEW: $5M from Founders Fund, Pantera and others, plus a brand-new SDK, as Anvil tries to make crypto fade into the background of everyday business.
@AcronymFNDN President @trspalding joins @kateirwin to break down how a DeFi letter-of-credit protocol powers buy now, pay later, accounts receivable and reservations, and why Bitcoin, Ethereum and tokenized real-world assets could become on-chain collateral.
Watch the full conversation on Markets Outlook:
00:00 - Tyler Spalding Joins Markets Outlook
02:02 - Anvil Launches Its SDK for Builders
03:10 - DeFi's New Playbook: Letters of Credit
04:09 - Founders Fund Leads $5M Anvil Token Round
05:40 - Why a Governance Token Still Makes Sense
09:12 - The First Companies to Integrate
11:42 - What Makes Anvil's On-Chain Collateral Different
14:22 - Collateral in the Age of AI Agents
14:57 - Bitcoin, Ethereum and the Future of Collateral
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LATEST: Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil
coindesk.com/business/2026/1…
$40B+ in real-world assets already sit onchain, excluding stablecoins.
Conversations at the latest @Legends4Legends pointed out that the next phase is not just bringing more value onchain, but expanding what that value can do through faster settlement, easier collateralization, and 24/7 markets.
Our tenth Legends4Legends conference made the case that blockchain is becoming infrastructure for both finance and AI, and institutions are now waking up to this.
linkedin.com/pulse/what-350-…
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Bitcoin created value onchain. Ethereum made value programmable onchain. RWA tokenization is migrating existing value onchain.
Collateral systems, however, are either individualized or stuck in the past. @CoinDesk Research notes that every protocol still builds its own vault, liquidation engine, & accounting from scratch.
With Anvil providing a universal collateral management layer, nothing is stopping the transition to a fully onchain financial world.
Institutional adoption goes beyond bringing assets onchain. It requires infrastructure capable of supporting the large-scale financial activity that follows.
@ethereum has spent years building that foundation. As payments, credit, collateral, and tokenized assets converge onchain, that depth of infrastructure matters now more than ever.
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Peace.
Here's a video I made about mass adoption and the current tech/projects I like right now that's been built to help us get there as we wait for Clarity Act.
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Spenders: @Robbieburns65 @fluffyonchain @zooko @cryptosmiff
Projects: @FlexaHQ @zano_project @freedomdollar5
Interview: @briteresi
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Script, Music, Editing: Me
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Assets: ethereum:0xff20817765cb7f73d4bde2e66e067e58d11095c2 zano:native
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Tyler Spalding, President Acronym Foundation, shares his views. Access the full report: thetacapital.com/insights/th…
The Satellite View is compiled from Theta Capital’s annual Legends4Legends event on blockchain technology and its investment opportunities with the top minds in the industry. The report presents bold predictions from leading experts including many of the crypto-native venture funds Theta invests in, with insights on the blockchain industry, investment opportunities, themes and strategies. Unlike other industry reports, The Satellite View is written by investors for investors, offering exclusive insights from top venture capitalists and founders.
This message is for information and education purpose only.
8.8 million crypto card payments in a single month.
The important shift to note here isn't just volume, it’s abstraction. Digital assets are increasingly moving through familiar financial products without requiring consumers or merchants to change how they transact.
Adoption accelerates when modern rails fit into familiar experiences.
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Why Flexa Co-Founder Tyler Spalding Is Bullish on Zano 👀| Free the Money Ep. 40
@Trspalding is President of the @AcronymFNDN and the former Co-Founder & CEO of @FlexaHQ, a digital payments network. He has been mining and building in crypto since 2011 and has more than 20 years of experience across technology, payments and aerospace, including engineering work with the U.S. Air Force and NASA programs. His work in crypto and Web3 has spanned a number of projects, including @Anvil_xyz and @Spenders_club, with a longstanding focus on payments and bringing digital assets into real-world use.
In this episode, Tyler shares his perspective on what it will actually take for digital assets to become usable money and why privacy is essential for adoption at scale. For the first time publicly, Tyler discusses his longtime support for Zano, what he believes the project has gotten right, and why its approach to privacy and security has positioned it ahead of the curve in preparing for emerging AI threats.
We also discuss stablecoins, private digital dollars, Zano’s Hard Fork 6, cross-chain interoperability & Zcash. Tyler makes the case for Proof of Stake over Proof of Work, including the security risks he sees in PoW networks, and we explore the bigger challenge of moving crypto from something people simply hold to something they can privately and securely spend in the real world.
Remember to subscribe and hit the bell “🔔” icon to get notifications.
Want financial privacy? Check out my favorite privacy coin @zano_project
You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: zanolist.com/exchanges
You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@ZanoProject
0:0 Background
2:46 Why Bitcoin Changed Everything for Tyler in 2011
5:48 Stablecoins & Digital Dollars: “Money Is Really Equal to Debt”
10:55 Discovering Zano: Why Tyler Became an Early Supporter
14:12 Why Privacy Is 100% Vital for Crypto Mass Adoption
19:53 Zano Confidential Assets: Bringing Privacy to Bitcoin & Crypto
24:38 Spending Private Zcash in the Real World With Flexa
27:49 Zano Hard Fork 6: Gateway Addresses & Cross-Chain Integration
31:19 Zcash vs. Zano
32:35 Freedom Dollar: The Private Stablecoin Built on Zano
35:56 AI Hacks: The Growing Security Threat to Crypto
39:15 How Proof of Work Vulnerable to a 51% Attack
45:50 Why Proof of Stake Could Be the Future of Crypto
46:34 Digital Spenders Club: Making Crypto Spendable in the Real World
51:38 No KYC: Paying Merchants Directly With Crypto
52:39 Tyler Spalding’s Must-Read Books on Money
54:19 Economic Finality
As markets outpace the financial infrastructure beneath them, protocols and tools that put digital assets to productive use are becoming essential to closing that gap and moving finance forward.
@CoinDesk Research’s recent report outlines how @anvil_xyz puts “dead capital” to work as collateral to back secured credit.
RESEARCH: @Anvil_xyz is aimed at capital that exists but can't be used: over 560M people hold crypto worth billions, yet almost none of it counts in a credit model. Someone holding ETH or a tokenized Treasury still can't walk into a bank and borrow against it.
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Anvil was on full display at @consensus2026 this year! 🎪
Highlights:
→ The @Bullish x @anvil_xyz announcement.
→ @m_at_anvil introducing Anvil's enterprise solution.
→ Thousands of conference goers attending @cryptocarnyhq.
See you next year! 👋
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Grateful for the opportunity to work with a publicly-traded company 🙏
@Bullish x @anvil_xyz
Today at 1:30 pm EST, the President of @AcronymFNDN @trspalding will be speaking alongside @ThomasFarley, the CEO of @Bullish, on how Bullish & Anvil are working together to enable DeFi within TradFi 🤝
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Today at 1:30 pm EST, the President of @AcronymFNDN @trspalding will be speaking alongside @ThomasFarley, the CEO of @Bullish, on how Bullish & Anvil are working together to enable DeFi within TradFi 🤝
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It's a building day here at @consensus2026! The CEO of Anvil Research Labs @m_at_anvil is presenting a workshop today on how Anvil Letters of Credit are levelling up Consensus sponsorships.
Tune in to learn how LOCs can be used for even more use cases & businesses.
Day 1 at @consensus2026
Presenting: The Crypto Carnival @cryptocarnyHQ 🎪
→ Onchain DeFi powered by @anvil_xyz
→ Culture powered by @spenders_club
→ Game credits powered by @useburner
