Digital artist, Beeple, launched an non-fungible token (NFT) platform and helped Tennis Champion Andy Murray sell an NFT that records his victory at Wimbledon in 2013.

The firm will look to challenge Coinbase and Robinhood, which are currently the focal points of custodial crypto trading in the U.S.

German property developer Bauwens is making a long-term bet on the future of tokenized real estate investments... The company has acquired 15% of a regulated crypto property platform built on Ethereum. It hopes to open the German property market to investors from around the world.

Widespread digitization of property in the massive $217 trillion real estate market could be transformative for the global economy. Property rights can be hard to prove in developing nations, where ownership can suddenly change hands unbeknownst to a home’s tenants. The immutable nature of blockchains guarantees property ownership, and token flexibility could potentially liquidate capital locked up in a home.

In the past months, regulators began cracking down on token sales and exchanges that do not comply with existing securities regulations. While officials have suggested that bitcoin and ETH are not securities, uncertainty still hangs over other digital currencies like XRP.