{"id":20362,"date":"2026-01-21T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/treasuries-on-the-chain-wall-street-tests-tokenization-with-a-t-bill-etf\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:35:22","slug":"treasuries-on-the-chain-wall-street-tests-tokenization-with-a-t-bill-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/treasuries-on-the-chain-wall-street-tests-tokenization-with-a-t-bill-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasuries on the chain: Wall Street tests tokenization with a T-Bill ETF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">One of Wall Street\u2019s safest and most tightly regulated assets is inching onto the blockchain, as an ETF issuer seeks approval to tokenize part of the U.S. Treasury market without changing how investors trade or hold the fund.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_eed0dadaf428181cb78ae55f59f66838\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is not just a one-off experiment with TBIL. The push to bring traditional financial assets onto blockchains \u2014 often called tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) \u2014 has gained significant momentum in the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Major firms and banks are launching tokenized products. <\/li>\n<li>BlackRock\u2019s digital liquidity fund has scaled quickly on Ethereum, and JPMorgan recently launched a tokenized money-market fund for institutional investors.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>F\/m Investments, which runs the $6.3 billion US Treasury 3-Month Bill ETF (TBIL), has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to record some existing ETF shares on a blockchain. <\/p>\n<p>The firm <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/831114\/000139834426000957\/fp0097248-1_40app.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">filed for permission<\/a> on Jan. 21. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal would leave the fund\u2019s holdings, ticker and trading unchanged, while allowing tokenized and conventional shares to coexist with identical fees, rights and disclosures. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">F\/m Investments becomes first ETF issuer to file w\/ SEC for tokenized ETF shares\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Would be for the F\/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill ETF (TBIL).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tokenization is coming to securities markets whether we file this application or not.\u201d \u2013 CEO Alexander Morris<\/p>\n<p>First of many. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lyH9Qh8LPR\">pic.twitter.com\/lyH9Qh8LPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nate Geraci (@NateGeraci) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateGeraci\/status\/2014063598490747180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">January 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If approved, the move would position short-term treasuries as a real-world test case for bringing blockchain-based ownership records into the heart of regulated securities markets\u2014on regulators\u2019 terms rather than outside them.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just a one-off experiment with TBIL. The push to bring traditional financial assets onto blockchains \u2014 often called tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) \u2014 has gained significant momentum in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Major firms and banks are launching tokenized products. <\/p>\n<p>BlackRock\u2019s digital liquidity fund, for example, has scaled quickly on Ethereum, and JPMorgan recently launched a tokenized money-market fund for institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Wall Street\u2019s safest and most tightly regulated assets is inching onto the blockchain, as an ETF issuer seeks approval to tokenize part of the U.S. Treasury market without&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20363,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions\/20363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}