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Story: Brazil’s B3 Tokenizes Cattle for a $19,600 Loan as Blockchain Reaches the Farm

By Dan Saada

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From Cattle to Uranium: The Wild Range of Tokenized Assets. Brazilian investment fund Target FIDC ran the cattle tokenization, giving each cow its own digital…

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Fish, Farts, and a Burning Banksy. Not every tokenization attempt sticks. Brickken, a tokenization platform, got a proposal from a…

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Jack Dorsey's Tweet and the Limits of Digital Collectibles. The NFT boom had no cleaner symbol than Jack Dorsey's first tweet.

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Cows on a blockchain. That's where we are now. Brazil's B3 stock exchange — one of the largest in Latin America — recently helped a farmer in the country's south secure a $19,600…

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And people thought DeFi was already getting weird.

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But cattle aren't even close to the strangest thing being tokenized right now.

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Tezos-backed metals.io is working on tokenizing uranium. Between November 2024 and July 2026, the platform logged $21.5 million in trading volume across 18,200 trades.

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It's basically fractional ownership, but on-chain.

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Not every tokenization attempt sticks. Brickken, a tokenization platform, got a proposal from a Chilean fish-processing company that wanted to issue tokenized debt linked…

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Related: Galaxy Digital Posts $85M Q2 Loss as Crypto Rout Hits Revenue Hard

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Then there's the fart NFT. Filmmaker Alex Ramírez-Mallis turned his own flatulence into non-fungible tokens during the pandemic, selling each for 0.

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The art world got a more dramatic version of this. A group called Burnt Banksy bought a Banksy print — specifically Morons (White) — physically destroyed it, and minted an NFT of…

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Music royalties went the same direction. DJ 3LAU and rapper Nas both offered streaming rights through Royal, a blockchain platform built specifically for music royalties.

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The NFT boom had no cleaner symbol than Jack Dorsey's first tweet. Twitter's co-founder sold it as an NFT for $2.

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See also: Coldcard Bug Cost Bitcoin Holders Over 1,596 Coins and $100 Million

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