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Polymath Builds Global Momentum with New Partnerships Across Europe and North America

Polymath Builds Global Momentum with New Partnerships Across Europe and North America

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Partnerships include collaborations with Black Manta Capital Partners and Patina Capital, showcasing Polymath's expanding global presence and interconnected network of trusted partners
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 21, 2025) - Polymath Research Inc. (Polymath), the tokenization blockchain infrastructure company for private markets, has announced a series of strategic partnerships with global tokenization and digital assets organizations. These collaborations strengthen Polymath's global reach and advance the organization's goal of increasing the adoption of tokenization across traditional markets.
From European capital markets and community-focused tokenization projects in the U.S., Polymath is establishing a robust infrastructure for market tokenization.
The announced partnerships are:
Black Manta Capital Partners, a pioneer in the regulated tokenization of assets, will license Polymath's white-label Capital Platform to deliver tokenization and asset management services across Europe, adding deal flow and regulatory expertise to Polymath's network.
Real estate investment firm, Patina Capital, is pioneering community-focused real estate tokenization with its $375M Westinghouse development in Cleveland, Ohio, enabling local residents to invest in large-scale regeneration projects through the licensing of Polymath's white label Capital Platform.
CycleX, the digital asset infrastructure firm, will combine its end-to-end fund management expertise with Polymath's purpose-built security token blockchain to streamline tokenization of real-world assets, enhancing issuance and lifecycle management for a wide range of asset classes.
These announcements follow additional collaborations with Polymesh, including partnerships with Ocree Capital, REtoken, Republic, AlphaPoint, and Paysafe, as well as Wallet Tech integrations with Dfns and GK8 by Galaxy.
REtokens USA Inc. has successfully tokenized approximately $66 million in real estate offerings on Polymesh, with an additional $34 million in contracted projects currently underway. In total, this represents $100 million in tokenized real estate offerings, showcasing how Polymesh provides the secure, transparent, and purpose-built infrastructure that makes large-scale real estate tokenization possible.
"Traditional financial institutions don't have faith that tokenization is secure and reliable," said Vince Kadar, CEO of Polymath. "That's why we're establishing these partnerships. By building an ecosystem of trust and reliability, we can enable traditional institutions to have faith in tokenization. From sophisticated institutional collaborations in Europe to community projects in the American Midwest, we're proving that tokenization can create inclusive pathways to wealth creation while maintaining the highest standards of regulatory compliance."
The announcement comes as Polymath nears completion of its current funding round, expected to close on September 4, 2025, ahead of its previously announced anticipated public listing by way of a reverse takeover transaction with AnalytixInsight Inc., indicating its market traction and the scalability of its technology across diverse asset classes and jurisdictions.
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About Polymath Research Inc.
Polymath is the fintech company tokenizing the global financial system. The company is transforming the private securities market with a white-label SaaS platform that tokenizes real-world assets. Scalable and highly customizable, Polymath lets issuers design compliant, efficient issuance flows while integrating via APIs with custodians, fund-management platforms, cap-table tools, CRM systems, and KYC/AML providers. Polymath brings institutional-grade security, liquidity, and efficiency to private markets.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on Polymath's expectations, estimates and projections regarding its business and the economic environment in which it operates. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "will", "can", "expect", "intend", "believe", "continue" or similar words or the negative thereof, and include the following: the implementation of collaborations with Black Manta Capital Partners and Patina Capital, the outcomes of such collaborations and partnerships, the completion of Polymath's current funding round, Polymath's potential global presence and interconnected network, Polymath's ability to transform the private securities market, to increase adoption of tokenization across traditional markets and future infrastructure for market tokenization and to establish trust, reliability or faith in tokenization, and Polymath's capacity to create pathways to wealth and maintain regulatory compliance. Although Polymath believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to control or predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward looking statements and readers should not place undue reliance on such statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Polymath undertakes no obligation to update them publicly to reflect new information or the occurrence of future events or circumstances, unless otherwise required to do so by law.
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