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According to FinanceFeeds, Morgan Stanley stated that real-world asset tokenization has become the “next major step” for its global business and is now a strategic priority in its initiative to upgrade traditional financial infrastructure using blockchain. The firm plans to integrate traditional and digital assets within regulated environments, advance near real-time on-chain settlement, and launch an institutional digital wallet in the second half of 2026—supporting tokenized traditional investment products as well as crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley is also advancing the development of a tokenized private equity secondary market and building both on-chain and off-chain settlement processes.
According to Cointelegraph, Tarek Mansour, CEO of prediction market platform Kalshi, stated that Kalshi will launch a “Parent Portal,” allowing parents to submit identification information to verify whether their children are impersonating them to circumvent the platform’s age restrictions. Kalshi will also add selfie verification to accounts, using facial recognition technology to determine whether the user matches the registered identity. The report notes that Kalshi is currently under scrutiny at both the state and federal levels in the U.S. over sports event contracts and wagers related to military operations. Meanwhile, Kalshi has argued in court that it falls exclusively under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and related state-level lawsuits remain ongoing.
According to Cointelegraph, Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, stated at the EUROFI High-Level Seminar that the Bank of France is advocating for the European Union to strengthen payment restrictions under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) on non-euro stablecoins—particularly U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoins. Beau noted that existing regulatory measures may be insufficient to address the risks posed by widespread stablecoin adoption. Meanwhile, on April 7, the French National Assembly passed an anti-fraud bill that would require annual reporting of self-custodied crypto wallets with a value exceeding €5,000; however, the bill has not yet completed the legislative process.