Companies are staying private longer, and more of their value is being created before they ever IPO.

Pre-IPO tokenization is the future of crypto.

The opportunity isn’t just bringing private markets onchain. It’s making private investments more accessible, programmable, and liquid.

Excited to partner with @l2iterative to help build this future at @NewtonLabs.

thedefiant.io/news/tradfi-an…

Binance's initial report: about $6.34B impacted on Oct 29.

Suspending withdrawals didn't stop all of it. The attacker's EIP-7702 authorizations sat onchain, outside the withdrawal system.

Time to rethink security in a post AI world

The private key is publicly exposed in this demo and it still can't drain the wallet

@NewtonLabs built a Safe policy requiring a TOTP code tied to the exact recipient and amount for every USDC transfer

no valid code, no transfer

try it: safe-totp-demo.newton.xyz

Earlier today, the attacker behind the recent @binance exploit, apparently in error, sent approximately 8.0M NEWT directly to the NEWT token contract address (0xd0ec028a3d21533fdd200838f39c85b03679285d), along with 17 other tokens: $ANIME, ethereum:0x8290333cef9e6d528dd5618fb97a76f268f3edd4, $ARPA, $BARD, $CELR, ethereum:0x3597bfd533a99c9aa083587b074434e61eb0a258, ethereum:0x0f81001ef0a83ecce5ccebf63eb302c70a39a654, $FTT, $GLM, $HIGH, $HOT, $KNC, $LQTY, $RARE, ethereum:0x259338656198ec7a76c729514d3cb45dfbf768a1, $SIGN and $WOO. These tokens are worth roughly $3.5 million at current prices.

To be clear, the NEWT token contract itself was not compromised.

We have reviewed the contract carefully, and unfortunately these tokens cannot be recovered. The NEWT token contract was built to be immutable: it has no owner or admin, all admin rights were renounced onchain in 2025, and upgrades are permanently disabled. That design exists to protect holders, so that no one, including the Foundation, can ever move or alter their tokens. These safeguards mean there is no way for anyone to retrieve tokens sent to the contract itself.

These tokens are now permanently locked. They are out of the attacker’s control and can never be sold into the market.

We have shared our findings with Binance and we will keep helping however we can.

Vietnam's trade hit a record $930B in 2025, and $888B in just 9 months this year.

Yet many exporters still start from zero with every new foreign buyer.

GOE x Newton are changing that: identity, trade docs & history verified onchain before deals settle. 🇻🇳

Tradfi and DeFi are converging. Here’s how.

Thanks to @cryptauxmargaux for interviewing me in the first installment of her Founder Series on tokenization.

We talked about what we're building at @NewtonLabs : pre-IPO stocks onchain, with compliance checks on every transaction instead of only at mint or wallet approval.

Blockchains settle instantly, but they never had a native authorization layer. That's the gap Newton is built for, and it's what institutions kept asking me about while I worked with regulators and central banks in Asia.

The platform with L2 Capital will bring $500M in tokenized holdings within the first years of launch.

If you're a family office, allocator or institutional builder trying to understand where tokenized assets are heading, follow Margaux's Substack, The Cryptaux Edge. Ex-CoinDesk Ethereum reporter, sharp questions, no hype. I'd trust her read on this space.

Read the interview and subscribe: cryptauxmargaux.substack.com/p/founder-seri…

Pre-IPO AI shares, coming onchain with Newton

Private markets are where most of the value now gets created, and most investors can’t reach them.

Proud to partner with @NewtonLabs as founding sponsor of a tokenization platform where the fund’s rules are checked before every transfer settles, with a signed record of each decision.

More soon.

EXCLUSIVE

L2 Capital Signs On To Tokenize $500 Million Of Pre-IPO AI Shares With Newton

L2 Capital, a Hong Kong technology investment firm, has signed on as founding partner of a tokenization platform Newton Labs is developing for private and public-market holdings. The firm is targeting $500 million of tokenized holdings in late-stage, pre-IPO technology and AI companies within 24 months of the platform's launch, according to a release shared exclusively with The Defiant.

Read more here:
thedefiant.io/news/tradfi-an…

Today we are excited to announce our private-market tokenization platform, targeting $500 million in tokenized holdings, with @l2iterative joining as founding partner!! 🎉

Read more ↓

"They say not your keys, not your money. That is true in blockchain, but then mainstream adoption won't happen."

Newton Labs co-founder and CTO @0xdenniswon on why investor protection, the thing TradFi and regulators require, has to come before institutional capital moves onchain.

Our CTO @0xdenniswon on the @0xEastPoint main stage with @Cindyshi0907, @ethermage and Joe Hwang of @googlecloud, moderated by Jongsub Lee of SNU.

Dennis's take on agent payments: using stablecoins safely takes an approval layer that sets limits and conditions.

Always remember guys, the biggest value prop of blockchain is verifability.

Don't trust, verify.

A lot of people are massively underestimating what tokenized stocks and RWAs unlock.

Today, U.S. markets are open 5 days/week from 9:30–4:00.

That’s 6.5 hours/day = 32.5 hours/week.

A week has 168 hours.

32.5 / 168 = just 19.3%.

What happens when capital can move, trade, and earn yield 24/7?

Your money suddenly has 5× more time to work.

This shift is inevitable, and the market is dramatically underestimating how much it will change the financial system.

Every curated vault has two sets of rules: the ones in the docs, and the ones the smart contract actually enforces. A breakdown 🧵

Smart contracts can't see offchain context: sanctions, agent hallucination, spend policy

Newton brings that data into the transaction

Market & risk: @redstone_defi, @CredoraNetwork
Identity: @withpersona, @humntech
Screening: @chainalysis
Vaults: @vaultsfyi
Assets: @mywebacy

unlocking institutional adoption onchain

@seanli at @TokenizeThisNYC 🗽