£250M Tokenized: When Banks Go Blockchain, Chaos Ensues!

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Finance

Behold, the Spectacle Unfolds:

  • Monument Bank, a U.K. upstart with delusions of grandeur, has decided to tokenize a staggering 250 million pounds (£335 million, if you’re counting in dollars) of retail deposits on the Midnight network-a blockchain so public, it makes a circus look private.
  • Fear not, dear depositors! Your pounds shall still bear interest, remain fully backed, and be cradled in the loving arms of the U.K.’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme. What could possibly go wrong?
  • This audacious move, they claim, will inspire other institutions to follow suit via Monument’s Banking-as-a-Service platform. Because, clearly, the world needs more banks playing with blockchain.

In a twist that would make even the Master laugh, Monument Bank has announced its plan to tokenize up to 250 million pounds of retail deposits on the Midnight network. “The first such move by a U.K.-regulated bank on a public blockchain,” they proclaim with all the humility of a cat walking on a piano.

The London-based challenger bank assures us that these deposits will remain interest-bearing, fully backed, and redeemable in pounds sterling. Oh, and they’ll still be protected by the U.K.’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme-because even revolutionaries need a safety net.

This, they say, is a bold step toward bringing tokenized financial products into the regulated banking fold. While other banks have dabbled in tokenized deposits, their efforts have been as institutional and closed as a Moscow bureaucracy. Monument, however, is targeting the “mass-affluent”-those with investable assets between 50,000 and 5 million pounds. Because why should the rich have all the fun?

With over 100,000 customers and 7 billion pounds in deposits, Monument’s first phase will mirror savings balances on Midnight’s privacy-focused blockchain. Later phases promise tokenized investment products and lending options, because why stop at deposits when you can tokenize everything?

The Midnight Foundation, birthed by Shielded Technologies (a Cardano offshoot), is providing the blockchain infrastructure. Rest assured, transaction data will remain visible only to the bank and its customers-a level of privacy that would make even the Master’s characters blush.

But wait, there’s more! Monument’s affiliate, Monument Technology, plans to offer this tokenized deposit functionality through its Banking-as-a-Service platform. Soon, every institution under the sun may adopt this model. Chaos, it seems, is not just coming-it’s being tokenized.

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2026-03-25 15:01