The Commodity Futures Trading Commission updated its guidance to allow supervised financial intermediaries to use tokenized versions of already authorized investments and employ blockchain as an official ledger. This clarification notably applies to futures commission merchants, who can now hold client funds in tokenized versions of authorized instruments provided these versions meet the same regulatory requirements as their traditional equivalents. Tokenized real-world assets reached approximately 46 billion dollars as of September 24, 2026, according to Token Terminal. This development does not automatically make cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or ether eligible investments: an authorized asset does not necessarily lose its regulatory status when tokenized. The published FAQs express the position of three CFTC administrative divisions and constitute neither new regulation nor a guarantee against future enforcement actions.
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