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BNY and Citadel Securities settle first tokenized Treasury repo on a major triparty platform

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Peak / day5tracked accounts
Peak dayMonOct 12 · busiest day in the panel
Rest of X / peak day—not measured outside the panel
Cited claims1source links retained
Market—no token attached

Attention

Who was talking, day by day

Oct 11 – Oct 17 UTC
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What happened

Per BNY's October 13 announcement (relayed in posts), Citadel Securities bought a 2-year US Treasury, had its tokenized representation settled in minutes rather than the usual T+1 cycle, and used it as collateral for overnight repo financing — the first use of tokenized assets on a major triparty repo platform, where a bank sits in the middle of the deal. Post @darklord_gr notes tokenized settlement happened in minutes instead of a day but still runs on bank rails with the bank as gatekeeper; @smqkedqg cites BNY at $62.6T; @dokcrypto frames it as freeing collateral liquidity sooner. Separately @the_waveanalyst posted that Citadel went public with a short on $SIVE, with 5.5% of the stock sold short — an unrelated single-name equities claim by that account.

Why it matters

It moves tokenization from holding assets onchain to using them as collateral in the repo market, one of the core institutional funding mechanisms, and it is the first such use on a major triparty repo platform. Distinct accounts discussed it across ai_crypto, macro_rwa, bitcoin and base_farcaster over Oct 11–14, then the conversation faded.

Observed reaction

Positive-leaning and institutionally framed: posts treat it as real infrastructure adoption rather than a crypto narrative, while noting the bank remains the gatekeeper.

Spread

Where it started and who carried it

First seen
Oct 11, 18:18 UTC by @the_waveanalyst
Accounts
9 tracked · 7 elsewhere on X
Communities
ai crypto (2), macro rwa (2), bitcoin (1), base farcaster (1)
Key accounts
@qwinsi0x, @smqkedqg, @gurgavin, @evancrypto17, @kalshi_crypto

Explainability

Evidence register

Every claim links to the posts behind it
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BNY and Citadel Securities completed the first use of tokenized assets on a major triparty repo platform, settling a tokenized 2-year US Treasury within minutes and using it as overnight repo collateral.

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Angles

  • First-use postmortem: which repo steps actually compressed (settlement in minutes vs T+1) and which still depend on the bank
  • Collateral mobility: what 'tokenized but not open' means for triparty repo's gatekeeper structure
  • Explainer on triparty repo for a crypto audience, using this deal as the worked example

In the playbook for Thu, Oct 22

Formats in use

  • quote-tweet short takes
  • thread-style breakdown with bullet points

Risks

  • Details rest on BNY's own October 13 announcement and secondary posts; the underlying transaction has not been independently verified in this week's posts
  • Product/promo framing risk: several posts are promo-style, and @sharkcryptottm's ENTROPY post (see also @_mlnbro quoting @iamyourchaos) also names Citadel Securities as team background; treat those as paid-promotion-adjacent and do not treat the $14M raise, $2.17B traded, $65M OI or $516M/7-day volume as our own verified figures
  • No price calls or buy/sell framing; $SIVE short-sale and $ZRO unlock posts are individual account claims, not market facts
  • For earlier coverage, mention only that prior Citadel-related threads existed

Observed content

Most-engaged posts

6 posts on X
$SIVE: Citadel went public with a short this week, and 5.5% of the stock is now sold short. The former chairman sold his entire stake too. Price is inside my entry zone, and this is the kind of selling I expect to see near the end of wave 2. https://t.co/dJOc2Tst8U
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$14M raised. $2.17B already traded. Entropy is moving from my watchlist into my trading setup. @entropyIO raised its round led by Ribbit Capital. According to the team, its researchers and traders come from Citadel Securities, Optiver, Polymarket and Millennium. And the flow i
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Ken Griffin, who runs Citadel, has invested in two of my dev’s companies And my dev’s coin is $GEOM
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@BNYglobal and Citadel Securities just used a tokenized 2-year US Treasury as overnight repo collateral. Repo is a short-term loan where you hand over bonds as collateral and get cash back. It's the first time tokenized assets were used on a major triparty repo platform, where a
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看了下, @entropyIO 把 pre-IPO 资产做成了能 24/7 交易的永续。 1️⃣ 产品本身
它是 Hyperliquid 上的 HIP-3 部署方,主打之前很难交易的资产:Anthropic、OpenAI 这类 pre-IPO 估值、SanDisk 股权、以及部分股票和指数。
价格按隐含估值走(ANTH 上 1 美元对应约 10 亿美元市值),不是传统股票价格。杠杆和资金费率机制也针对这类资产做了调整,长期持仓成本相对可控。 2️⃣ 资金和团队
8 月官宣 $14M 种子轮,Ribbit Capital 领投,同时有约 $40M $H
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$ZRO strength can't be ignored it's certainly a ticker you want on your watchlist trigger to watch on chart, flip that resistance, build some structure above and there is no limit 20th October "bullish" unlock? few things: buyback/burn mechanism is cool, i like usage linked
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