Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Back OKX at Flat $25B Valuation
A London quantitative hedge fund joins the round too, seven months after the NYSE's owner bought in at exactly the same price.
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What happened
A London quantitative hedge fund joins the round too, seven months after the NYSE’s owner bought in at exactly the same price.
Reported details
- The funding round highlights growing collaboration between traditional finance and crypto, potentially reshaping market infrastructure globally.
Why this matters
The OKX funding round is an infrastructure change, not a market event: the thing to verify is whether the underlying record moved, or only the wrapper around it. A tokenized claim is unchanged if the ledger, custodian, and redemption terms are unchanged, however the announcement is framed.
Evidence boundary
The scope is limited to what the linked reports state, and where two of them diverge both positions are recorded without either being picked in advance.
What to verify
Verify the OKX round on the chain: the deployed contract address and version, and whether the ledger of record changed or only the interface that reads it.
Sources and editorial check time
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Decrypt: https://decrypt.co/380157/circle-ripple-and-standard-chartered-back-okx-at-flat-25b-valuation
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Crypto Briefing RWA: https://cryptobriefing.com/hedge-fund-qrt-joins-ripple-circle-and-sc-ventures-in-okxs-25b-extension-round/
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Editorial source check time: 2026-10-06T13:11:31.660Z
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