Tokenized Treasuries and RWA

The Cardano Foundation, a Swiss nonprofit, announced on Oct 7, 2026 that token standard CIP-0113 is live on Cardano after independent security audits, with no hard fork required. It lets issuers of regulated stablecoins, funds and bonds restrict recipients, run identity and sanctions checks on every transfer, and freeze, seize or transfer holdings under set rules. Eternl, GeroWallet, CardanoScan and BloxBean are among the tools supporting the launch.

This is a pilot without a live product yet: the UK government named Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets joint lead managers for its first digitally native government bond, the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT), announced Oct 6, 2026 by Economic Secretary Lucy Rigby. The pilot is expected by Q1 2027 on a platform in the UK's Digital Securities Sandbox, testing DLT and onchain settlement across the bond's lifecycle, with HSBC as DLT supplier since February.