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Tradeweb Markets Inc.

Electronic marketplace founded in 1996 for rates, credit and money markets, averaging $2.8tn of daily notional, which on 1 July 2026 provided execution for the delivery of a tokenized US Treasury against tokenized cash on the Canton Network.

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Jurisdiction United States
Founded 1996
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The profile

Electronic marketplace founded in 1996 for rates, credit, money markets and equities, where much of the dealer-to-client government bond market is priced; it reported average daily notional of $2.8tn across the four fiscal quarters to the first quarter of 2026 and $3.7 quadrillion traded since launch. On 1 July 2026 it provided execution and price discovery for a transaction in which Franklin Templeton delivered a tokenized US Treasury to Virtu Financial against tokenized cash, denominated USDCx, on the Canton Network, with both legs moving in a single synchronised settlement alongside Blockdaemon, Digital Asset and Societe Generale. The significance is location rather than novelty: tokenized Treasury settlement only changes market structure if it happens on the venues institutional flow already uses, and Tradeweb is one of them.

Products and services

Institutional rates marketplace
Request-for-quote and streaming protocols for government bonds, swaps and money markets, averaging $2.8tn of notional a day to the first quarter of 2026.
Onchain Treasury execution
Execution and price discovery for tokenized Treasury trades settled against tokenized cash on the Canton Network.

Coverage

Developments in which Tradeweb Markets Inc. is a named party, newest first.

Institutions

BNY sets out plan for 24/7 US Treasury settlement with a tokenized Treasury pilot by end-2026

BNY said in July 2026 that it plans to pilot tokenized US Treasuries on its private blockchain by the end of 2026 and offer round-the-clock settlement for both conventional and tokenized Treasuries in 2027. The bank clears an average of $24.3tn a day as a…

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