Ζαγκάκης Δημήτρης @zagkakis

Last week we wrote that Europe has a framework built for tokenized securities which almost nobody uses — the DLT Pilot Regime — and that the ECB itself describes it as having failed to attract substantial take-up. ➖ The EU has now decided what to do about it. And the ECB disagrees. On 9 October, EU finance ministers agreed the Council’s negotiating position: raise the ceiling per DLT market infrastructure from €6 billion to €300 billion, with a route to €500 billion by delegated act. The Commission had proposed €100 billion. Bank-group settlement schemes go from a proposed €10 billion to €50 billion. Christine Lagarde objected to the €300 billion figure and asked Parliament to revisit it, warning that DLT structures that aren’t interoperable could reintroduce exactly the fragmentation this package exists to remove. Here is the part worth sitting with. Six. That is how many DLT market infrastructures currently hold permits under the regime, on ESMA’s register. If a €6 billion ceiling were the binding constraint, you would expect a queue of applicants pressing against it. There isn’t one. Which suggests the cap was a symptom rather than the cause — and that raising it fifty-fold addresses the complaint the industry made loudest rather than the problem it actually has. Lagarde’s objection points at the real one. The IMF said the same thing last week: fragmentation across platforms and the absence of common settlement assets undermine the network effects that would let this market grow. A larger sandbox with no interoperability requirement gives you bigger isolated pools, not a deeper market. ➖ Both things can be true. The ceiling was too low, and lifting it alone won’t be enough. #Tokenisation #DLTPilotRegime #CapitalMarkets #ECB #Regulation #XBG

The programme for Greece in the International Capital Markets is out, and our co-founder and CEO Tasos Oureilidis is one of two speakers on the digital assets panel. Fixed income reinvented: digital assets & AI in market transformation — 10:35, moderated by Georgina Jarratt, ICMA's Head of FinTech and Digitalisation, with Eleni Koutrouli of the Bank of Greece. Two seats on that panel. One of them the central bank, the other a company building this from Athens. That says something about where the conversation has moved. The wider programme is worth the morning on its own: keynotes from Vassiliki Lazarakou, Chair of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Dimitris Tsakonas of the Public Debt Management Agency, and George Handjinikolaou of Piraeus Bank Group, plus sessions on repo markets, T+1 and MiFIR reform, and the track record of Greek issuers in sustainable bonds. Held under the auspices of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, with the support of SEV. 📍 Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens 🗓️ Wednesday 8 October, 09:00–12:40, networking lunch to follow Free to attend and open to all market participants. Registration through ICMA. 👇 lnkd.in/e4CA7q8N #CapitalMarkets #FixedIncome #DigitalAssets #Tokenisation #ICMA #Athens #XBG

Ένα ερώτημα που μας τίθεται συχνά ➡️ Γιατί από την Ελλάδα; Η υπονοούμενη εκδοχή είναι σαφής. Αυτή η δουλειά γίνεται από τη Ζυρίχη, το Λουξεμβούργο, το Λονδίνο. Εκεί είναι οι δικαιοδοσίες, οι σχέσεις, οι δεκαετίες θεσμικής μνήμης. ➖ Η απάντησή μας είναι απλή: επειδή υπάρχει μια αγορά που κανείς δεν εξυπηρετεί σοβαρά. Ένας ελληνικός ή κυπριακός διαχειριστής, ένα family office στη Θεσσαλονίκη ή τη Λευκωσία, δουλεύει σε ένα πλαίσιο που ένας πάροχος στη Γενεύη δεν έχει λόγο να γνωρίζει σε βάθος. Το τοπικό ρυθμιστικό περιβάλλον, ο τρόπος που λειτουργεί εδώ η σχέση με τον πελάτη, οι φορολογικές και νομικές παράμετροι της περιοχής — όλα αυτά απαιτούν παρουσία, όχι απόσταση. Και σε αυτή τη δουλειά, η απόσταση φαίνεται. Εμείς είμαστε εδώ. Μιλάμε την ίδια γλώσσα — κυριολεκτικά και θεσμικά. Ξέρουμε αυτό το περιβάλλον όχι από αναφορές αλλά επειδή δουλεύουμε μέσα του καθημερινά. Το πρώτο ελληνικό ψηφιακό εταιρικό ομόλογο δεν εκδόθηκε από την Ελλάδα κατά τύχη. Εκδόθηκε επειδή κάποιοι έπρεπε να καθίσουν σε τραπέζια με ρυθμιστές, δικηγόρους και εκδότες, εδώ, επί μήνες, μέχρι να λυθούν ερωτήματα που κανείς δεν είχε λύσει ξανά σε αυτή τη δικαιοδοσία. ➖ Αυτό δεν γίνεται εξ αποστάσεως. Δουλεύουμε με τρόπο που ο πελάτης μιλάει απευθείας με τον άνθρωπο που κάνει τη δουλειά — όχι με τον τρίτο κρίκο μιας αλυσίδας. Είναι επιλογή, και σκοπεύουμε να την κρατήσουμε. #Greece #Cyprus #FinTech #Tokenisation #CapitalMarkets #XBG

Our Co-Founder & CEO, Tasos Oureilidis, will join the panel "Fixed income reinvented: digital assets & AI in market transformation" at Greece in the International Capital Markets — a regional conference hosted by ICMA - International Capital Market Association. The programme brings together the people who actually operate this market: welcome remarks from ICMA Chief Executive Bryan Pascoe, keynotes from the Public Debt Management Agency and the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, and sessions on the role of repo markets, ICMA's standards and documentation, and the track record of Greek issuers in sustainable bonds. ➖ We take the invitation seriously, for a specific reason. Conversations about tokenized fixed income are most useful when they happen in the room where the market's plumbing is discussed — with sovereign issuers, banks, regulators and market infrastructure providers present. That is a different conversation from the one held at a crypto conference, and a more consequential one. Our CEO will speak to what we have learned building in this space from Greece for the whole EU: that digital innovation in bond markets advances at the speed of legal certainty, settlement finality and supervisory confidence — not at the speed of the technology. 📍 Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens 🗓️ Thursday 8 October 2026, 09:00–12:40 EEST Registration through ICMA. 👇 icmagroup.org/events/greece-… #XBG #CapitalMarkets #FixedIncome #Tokenisation #DigitalAssets #SustainableFinance #ICMA

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Xenios Blockchain Group @xenios_group

3 months ago

Tokenized money market funds are emerging as one of the clearest winners in tokenized finance — and the use case is straightforward. Take a fund structure that treasurers already understand and that regulators already supervise. ➖ Put it on-chain. What you get is cash that

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Tokenized money market funds are emerging as one of the clearest winners in tokenized finance — and the use case is straightforward. Take a fund structure that treasurers already understand and that regulators already supervise. ➖ Put it on-chain. What you get is cash that keeps earning while it moves: collateral that can be posted, transferred and reused without first being parked in idle, non-yielding balances. A new joint report from @BCG and @Anchorage Digital puts numbers behind the intuition. Tokenized MMFs sit at roughly $10 billion today. The authors project a path toward $600 billion to $1 trillion+ in assets by 2030 — broadly what a 5–10% migration of the ~$8 trillion global money market fund industry would imply. Their explanation for why this category should scale ahead of other tokenized securities is refreshingly unglamorous: the product is easy to explain, and the benefit shows up immediately. The report's examples are drawn largely from the US market. Europe's path will look different — shaped by MiCA, by the DLT Pilot Regime and by supervisors who have been part of this conversation for some time rather than arriving late to it. ➖ That is the environment we chose to build in. Since Greece's first tokenized corporate bond, our position has not changed: tokenization earns its place in finance when it is regulated, secure, and boring in all the right ways. Infrastructure has to be trustworthy before it can be transformative. The full report is worth your time. 👇 cdn.prod.website-files.com/64b0dcb6fecf02… #XBG #Tokenization #RWA #DigitalAssets #MiCA #Blockchain

"Tokenization" sounds technical. ➖ The idea behind it isn't: proof of ownership that moves at the speed of a message. For a business, that changes three things: → Fractional Ownership — assets that took months to sell can be divided and traded in fractions → Transparency — ownership lives on an immutable ledger, not in a drawer of paperwork → Transferability — your asset becomes accessible to interested parties far beyond your postcode The buildings, machinery and portfolios sitting on European balance sheets don't lack value. 👉They lack bankable features. That's what we build tBox for: one login to tokenise & manage real-world assets — compliantly as per the issuer’s discretion. Explore tBox ➡️ tbox.io Book an Introductory Call ➡️ tinyurl.com/tBox-io #XBG #tBox #Tokenization #RWA #Blockchain

➖ Xenios Blockchain Group Receives MiCA CASP Authorization Xenios Blockchain Group (#XBG) is proud to announce that it has been granted authorization as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. This milestone reflects XBG’s commitment to compliance, transparency, security, and responsible innovation. The authorization enables XBG to operate within a harmonized European regulatory environment and reinforces confidence among customers, partners, and investors. As digital assets continue to mature, XBG remains focused on delivering trusted blockchain solutions and contributing to the development of a secure, regulated, and forward-looking digital economy across Europe. #MiCA #CASP #EU #Regulation

A number worth sitting with for a moment. 👉 $31,000,000,000. That is the value of real-world assets tokenised on public blockchains today. ➖ Up more than 400% since January 2025. Nearly 1,000,000 individual holders. 167 platforms. Three years ago, tokenisation was a whitepaper concept. Two years ago, it was a pilot. Today, BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Franklin Templeton are running it in production — against real capital, real clients, real risk. ➖ This is no longer the future of finance. It is the present infrastructure of finance. For businesses in Greece and Southeast Europe, this matters more than most realise. MiCA gives European operators something no other jurisdiction currently has: a single regulatory passport to access the entire EU digital asset market. The firms that establish regulatory credibility now — with proper CASP authorisation, compliant infrastructure, and institutional-grade operations — will be the ones sitting at the table when this market reaches its next inflection point. 👉At Xenios Blockchain Group, we have been building for exactly this moment. VASP and CASP pending licensed. Official consultant to the European Regulators. Operational in Greece, with reach across the European market. The $31 billion is not the ceiling. ➖ It is the starting line. #XBG #RWA #Tokenization #Blockchain #MiCA #DigitalAssets #XeniosBlockchainGroup #tBox

22nd Asia Private Banking and Family Office Summit Vasilis Apostolidis, member of Xenios Blockchain Group and founder of Apostolidis Law Firm, at the 22nd Asia Private Banking and Family Office Summit, Shanghai Station — one of Asia's leading gatherings for private banking and family office professionals. As part of a panel on Non-Dom Tax Regimes and Golden Visa revocation procedures, Vasilis joined a distinguished group of international experts to discuss the legal and tax challenges facing family offices and cross-border investors today — issues closely tied to the work we do at Xenios Blockchain Group around regulation and transparency across both digital and traditional assets. This appearance reflects Xenios Blockchain Group's ongoing commitment to building bridges between Europe and Asia, bringing Greek expertise in legal, tax, and blockchain matters to a global audience of wealth management decision-makers. 📍 Shanghai Station | 22nd Asia Private Banking & Family Office Summit #XBG #XeniosBlockchainGroup #FamilyOffice #PrivateBanking #Blockchain #Shanghai

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The $340 Million Question. For years, tokenization sat in the "interesting, eventually" column. A new report from Nasdaq and the ValueExchange takes it out of there — for good. The headline finding is blunt: 52% of global financial firms expect to manage live tokenized collateral by the end of 2026. Not a pilot. Not a sandbox. In production, against real exposures. The numbers explain why: → Up to $340M in annual savings for a single Tier 1 firm → -13% settlement fails through real-time automation → ~25% of collateral sits idle, costing the industry over $2B a year But the most important finding isn't the opportunity — it's the bottleneck. Minting a token is the easy 10%. The hard part is everything around it: common data standards, institutional-grade controls, and above all, regulatory certainty. In other words: the bottleneck to tokenized finance isn't the chain. It's the rules. And that's exactly where Xenios Blockchain Group was built — with compliance as the product, not an afterthought. VASP-licensed (CASP authorization pending under MiCA), official advisor to the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, and the tBox platform: one login — tokenize, trade, compliant by design. The firms going live in 2026 will be looking for partners who solved the compliance problem first. Read our full analysis 👇 open.substack.com/pub/xeniosbloc… #XBG #Blockchain #Tokenization

#Blockchain isn't one-size-fits-all — and neither are the challenges your business is trying to solve. At Xenios Blockchain Group, we help businesses and organizations cut through the hype and figure out where blockchain actually adds value: transparency, security, efficiency, and trust built into your operations. Not sure where to start? That's exactly what we're here for. 📅 Book a free discovery call with our team. We'll listen to your needs, map them to real solutions, and show you what's possible — no jargon, no pressure. 👉tinyurl.com/xbgCall Let's explore what blockchain can do for your organization. #XBG #B2B

A new BIS Working Paper (No. 1359, June 2026) delivers a finding the tokenization industry should sit up for. Read our foul view 👉 open.substack.com/pub/xeniosbloc… #XBG #RWATokenization #Stablecoins #DeFi #XBG #MiCA #PFMI #OnChainAnalytics

The window for banks to shape the future of finance is open. ➖But not indefinitely. A new BCG flagship report on the Future of Digital Assets puts it starkly:

We’re not building for next quarter. We’re building for the next decade.

Xenios Blockchain Group @xenios_group

5 months ago

➖ What your plan for #PostQuantum? Imagine someone is photocopying your most confidential files every day — your contracts, financials, IP, customer data — and locking the copies in a vault. They can't read them. The encryption is too strong. But they're patient. #XBG

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Two countries have dominated the global digital finance conversation for a decade. Switzerland. Luxembourg. ➖ It is not an accident. 🔷 What they got right👇 #DigitalFinance #Switzerland #Luxembourg #Greece #Blockchain #MiCA #XBG

How is SWIFT adapting to the era of Real-World Asset tokenization? At Xenios Blockchain Group, we break down the collision of TradFi and Web3. 📖 Our latest article: tinyurl.com/xbg-swift 🌐 Our vision: xeniosblockchaingroup.com #XBG #Tokenization #RWA #SWIFT #Blockchain

Don't rely on VASPs that lack a clear plan or have not taken action to transition into CASPs under MiCA regulations —a standard that XBG has already successfully met. #MiCA #CASP #VASP #CryptoCompliance #Blockchain #EUPassporting #UninterruptedService #DigitalAssets

From all of us at Xenios Blockchain Group, we wish you a joyful season of renewal and hope! Whether you are celebrating Easter or simply enjoying the arrival of Spring, may this time bring peace, inspiration and new beginnings. Warmest wishes, The #XBG Team

📢 Η Xenios Blockchain Group στο 34ο Money Show! Με ιδιαίτερη επιτυχία πραγματοποιήθηκε η συμμετοχή της εταιρείας μας στο 34ο Money Show, σε μια εξαιρετική εκδήλωση που διοργάνωσε το Προξενικό Σώμα Θεσσαλονίκης στο Hyatt Regency. #XBG #MoneyShow2026 #Blockchain #Tokenization

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