
Morgan Stanley launches Digital Asset Lab to test DeFi and tokenization
- —Morgan Stanley opened a Digital Asset Lab to test stablecoins, tokenization and DeFi
- —The bank manages $9.3 trillion in client assets
- —In February it filed for a national trust bank charter as Morgan Stanley Digital Trust for custody, staking and trading
- —It launched the MSBT bitcoin trust and ether and solana ETPs, with spot trading on E*Trade via Zerohash
Why it matters: Major US banks are racing to build tokenization infrastructure, widening institutional access to crypto assets.
Source: Crypto Briefing