launching Corda on @solana

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“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.” — Charlie Munger
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The future of Internet Capital Markets starts here. R3 is proud to back @Solana_SRI on their comprehensive institutional guide to @Solana Proud to back this work as a Founding Member.
A Financial Institution's Guide to Solana. New from the Solana Research Institute. Seven chapters covering protocol, economics, governance, ecosystem, regulation, and live product, written for analysts at FIs being asked to evaluate it. Some of what's in it 🧵
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Bringing institutions and flows to a public network accrues way more value for every participant long term. And is also much easier short term. Eventually the coordination costs are too high to make multiple semi synchronized private networks align. Believe me, I tried! Better to bring it to @solana and corda.xyz

There’s a DLT called @Cordablockchain that solves this and @SolanaFndn already has a partnership with it $CORDA $DLT
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In 3 weeks we’re hosting our next Future Forum webinar: Asset Managers as Market Architects Tokenised MMFs, ETFs and private market funds are now launching on-chain. But what happens to capital markets infrastructure when funds are natively on-chain? In this webinar, we’ll discuss: • New fund structures • On-chain operating models • The evolving role of asset managers Speakers from: • Wellington Management • Standard Chartered • Apex Group • Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Register: streamyard.com/watch/TRM7Zr2…
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The first wave of RWAs focused on one thing: Tokenization. → Take a real-world asset. → Put it on a blockchain. → Wrap it in a token. But tokenization alone doesn’t create demand. Crypto markets don’t just want assets. They want assets that fit into on-chain financial systems. That means: • Liquidity • Transparent yield • Composability • Programmatic settlement Traditional asset structures weren’t built for this. That’s why many RWAs struggle to gain traction in DeFi. It’s not the asset that’s the problem. It’s the structure around the asset. In traditional finance, the most successful products aren’t raw assets. They’re structured financial products. - Asset pools - Tranching - Yield engineering - Liquidity design This is how entire markets are built. Crypto is rediscovering the same principle. The next generation of RWAs won’t just be tokenized assets. They’ll be structured yield products built for on-chain capital markets. That means new infrastructure. Systems that can: • pool assets • structure yield • distribute risk • integrate with DeFi Do you know where things get interesting? There are projects already building this. Projects like @inside_r3 are exploring this model through high-quality yield vaults. Instead of simply tokenizing assets, Corda shifts focus to how these assets are structured and packaged to meet the demands of on-chain investors. Offering diversification from pure crypto assets without sacrificing returns. That shift is very crucial. It turns RWAs from static assets into financial building blocks inside crypto markets. This is where real-world assets actually become part of DeFi. • instant liquidity • composable • integrated with DeFi The first phase of RWAs was tokenization. The next phase is structure. And the infrastructure enabling that shift is Corda. @inside_r3
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Great overview on the RWA bull case. And that priority to make it come true is 1. liquidity 2. legal wrapper as product design and 3. distribution 🤝
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one of the hardest working teams in the Solana eco 👀
1/ Web3 bond protocol, Xitadel's first LTT partner is @FlashTrade, first collateral is sFLP.1. Who are they, what do they do, and why are they the perfect launch partner for Xitadel? Let's break it down.
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Great piece on Vaults in Bloomberg today by @MuyaoShen — Bitwise, Morpho, Gauntlet, and Steakhouse all weighed in. “People want yield,” said Jonathan Man, portfolio manager and head of multi-strategy solutions at Bitwise, which just launched their first vault. “They want their assets to be productive. And the vault is just another way to deliver that.” Finance is moving onchain.
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I keep on hearing that "vaults" are the only way for DeFi to survive/succeed. Looking at this $6 billion market, i started wondering what exactly vaults are? Read my latest deep dive on vaults and curators: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Great convo w Coindesk about our mission to bring liquidity and yield to onchain markets. sign up at corda.xyz to stay up to date 🚀 coindesk.com/business/2026/0… via @coindesk

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Books 2-4 below are essential reads. Ed thorp is the man. I’d also throw in Against the Gods: the remarkable story or risk. Way more exciting of a read than the title implies!
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Honestly the best thing I ever did for myself as a trader was study the history of markets. Especially today as narrative and emotion rules all, you need to learn how humans will react…cycles are predictable when they are based on human emotion as the stocks might change but the people never do. My top 5 books to nail this down: 1. Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard Baruch 2. The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros 3. A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp 4. Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone 5. The Great Game by John Steele Gordon I’ll be writing an article later in the week detailing some of the lessons from these books, but really it boils down to understanding that humans, when faced with similar circumstances, will act in similar ways. Reading these books will give you so many examples from history that are directly applicable to the situations we seem to be experiencing almost every day in these markets
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…and it’s still so early 📈
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Jeff’s writings have helped change my mind on some things I didn’t expect to change my mind on (which is important to do!). Like tokenomics. And now DATs. Worth a read
Wrote some thoughts on where DATs are headed from here
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Love the thesis laid out by Strobe Ventures. The (liquidity) crisis in tokenized RWA presents a large opportunity. Congrats @will_beeson on the raise
We backed @will_beeson to bridge the $35bn liquidity crisis in tokenization Read more below on how @multiliquid_xyz will help drive true adoption of digital assets as a critical settlement layer between tokenized assets and stablecoins.
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The only constant in crypto is change- as reflected in this year's 2025 Founder Survey Results. Distribution has unseated finding PMF as the biggest challenge! >100 founders representing $48B in mkt cap and $4.2B in funding shared their thoughts
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Good to have company :)
Replying to @bloccelerate
Anecdotally, we are seeing more founders building at the convergence of DeFi and tradfi- likely both will soon just be "finance". This unseated infrastructure as the most common focus area
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18 Dec 2025
Vaults are clearing a path for institutions to come onchain. Fintechs, centralized exchanges, and wallets integrate Gauntlet vaults, and we collaborate with industry leaders on several DeFi activations. More to come in 2026.
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18 Dec 2025
🙋‍♂️ noticing —> corda.xyz

17 Dec 2025
Replying to @Bitwise
2026 PREDICTION: Onchain vaults will double in AUM.
 •What are they? Think "ETFs 2.0" – investment funds that manage assets on the blockchain for yield. •The Growth: From $0.1B$ in 2024 to $8.8B peak in 2025. •Why 2026? We expect a wave of high-quality "curators" will be coming in. •Our take: AUM will double, and Wall Street will notice.
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Amazing event and the perfect way to cap off my Breakpoint week. Thanks @keel_fi for hosting me! Sails up on the regatta ⛵️
16 Dec 2025
What happens when you bring together some of the world's largest financial institutions and DeFi's brightest for a night hyper-focused on one thing, tokenized assets on @Solana? Let's find out. Thanks to all those who helped us kick off the Tokenization Regatta in style.
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Get involved: corda.xyz

12 Dec 2025
BREAKING: Institutional crypto giant @inside_r3 launches Corda, an onchain RWA marketplace And it's built entirely on Solana 🔥
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