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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Securitize's Tokenized Credit Fund Set for Solana DeFi Debut as RWA Trend Expands
A tokenized version of Apollo's private credit fund, issued by Securitize, will arrive on Solana's SOL decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, bringing traditional financial instruments closer to the fast-growing network. The launch, orchestrated by lending platform Kamino Finance with support from tokenization specialist Securitize and DeFi risk advisor Steakhouse Financial, aims to make the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED) token the first of its kind to be available for on-chain borrowing and leverage on Solana. The token's debut is pending on completing an audit, Kamino said. The ACRED token, launched in January, offers exposure to Apollo's private credit strategies and is issued under Securitize's regulated token framework. ACRED will also be the first token on Solana using Securitize's sToken standard, with more assets expected to follow later, Securitize said. The product underscores a growing appetite in crypto for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. RWAs—traditional instruments such as funds, bonds or real estate—are being brought onto blockchain rails to reduce friction in investing, improve access and transparency, and allow for programmable use in DeFi protocols. In practice, this means investors can use RWAs as collateral to borrow against, yield farming, or plug into automated investment strategies. "The value of tokenization really comes into play when these assets are integrated into DeFi, and new products and strategies are developed around them," says Reid Simon, head of DeFi and credit solutions at Securitize. Despite Solana's fast-growing DeFi market, RWAs are yet to take off on the chain. According to Solana hosts $330 million worth of RWAs, small compared to the network's nearly $9 billion DeFi market size. It's also trailing rival layer-1 network Ethereum's $7 billion real-world asset market. But with large players in tokenization stepping in, backers of the launch see this as a tipping point. "Solana has experienced explosive consumer growth in recent years, but below the surface we are seeing enormous interest from institutions and asset issuers," said Marius Ciubotariu, co-founder at Kamino, "Finally, the industry is in a position to not only bring these assets on-chain, but to provide genuine use-cases." Through Kamino's Multiply product, users will be able to leverage ACRED for yield strategies—automatically looping the asset to increase exposure while managing collateral and borrow levels through Solana-native smart contracts. That's a similar offering to what Gauntlet introduced on Polygon in late April. "Building on off-chain credit assets in a composable way is the sort of long-term investment we believe can help catalyze further growth of DeFi in Solana," said adcv, co-founder of Steakhouse Financial. CORRECTION (May 20, 20:15 UTC): Clarifies that ACRED is a tokenized feeder fund investing in a diversified credit fund managed by Apollo. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Crypto Insight
14-05-2025
- Business
- Crypto Insight
VanEck to launch its first RWA tokenization fund
Investment firm VanEck is launching a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) fund that offers exposure to US Treasury bills, developed in partnership with tokenization platform Securitize. The initiative places VanEck among a growing number of traditional finance firms entering the RWA tokenization space. The fund, called VBILL, will be initially available on Avalanche, BNB Chain, Ethereum and Solana blockchains, VanEck said in a May 13 statement. The fund's minimum subscriptions start at $100,000 for investments running on Avalanche, BNB Chain, and Solana, while the minimum subscription on Ethereum is $1 million. VanEck joins a burgeoning field of traditional financial firms that have launched RWA tokenized funds, with competitors including BlackRock and Franklin Templeton. In January, Apollo, an investment firm with $751 billion in assets under management, also launched a private credit tokenized fund. With a market capitalization of $6.9 billion, US Treasurys are among the largest asset classes in tokenized funds, second only to private credit, according to data from VanEck's partner, Securitize, has tokenized over $3.9 billion in assets. In May 2024, it raised $47 million in a strategic funding round led by BlackRock. Tokenization of real-world assets has many benefits that outpace traditional finance systems, including faster settlement times and liquidity to previously illiquid assets, advocates say. SEC Chair Atkins on RWA tokenization At the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) roundtable on May 12, Chair Paul Atkins compared the moving of securities onchain to the transition of songs from analog to digital. 'Just as the shift to digital audio revolutionized the music industry, the migration to onchain securities has the potential to remodel aspects of the securities market by enabling entirely new methods of issuing, trading, owning, and using securities,' Atkins said. 'Blockchain technology holds the promise to allow for a broad swath of novel use cases for securities, fostering new kinds of market activities that many of the Commission's legacy rules and regulations do not contemplate today,' he added. Source:
Forbes
08-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
BlackRock-Backed Securitize Raises Strategic Funding From Jump Crypto
Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize Securitize Jump Crypto, the digital asset arm of Chicago quantitative trading firm Jump Trading, has taken a strategic stake in Miami-based Securitize, one of the leading platforms bringing real-world assets (RWAs) like Treasurys and private credit onto public blockchains. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is the first outside investment in Securitize since BlackRock's $47 million round last year, which cemented the firm as a cornerstone of the fast-growing tokenization market. Other blue-chip asset managers, including Apollo, Hamilton Lane and KKR, have also tapped Securitize to issue blockchain-based funds. These aren't fringe crypto experiments. The funds tokenize mainstream products including Treasurys, private credit, and private equity on blockchains like Ethereum and Solana. BlackRock's BUIDL fund, the $10 trillion asset manager's first blockchain-based vehicle, which also is Securitize's marquee product, has become something of a bellwether of tokenization. Structured as a money market fund, it now manages $2.86 billion in assets. Since its debut just a little over a year ago, tokenized Treasury products have surged 800% to nearly $7 billion, a sign that the pitch is resonating with yield-hungry investors looking for alternatives to traditional wrappers. Michael Sonnenshein, COO at Securitize Securitize 'We think that the market should be digesting this investment really as a signal that firms like Jump now have conviction in not only tokenization, but the role and the impact that tokenization is having on capital markets, capital formation and investment accessibility on chain,' says Michael Sonneshein, Securitize's COO and former CEO of crypto asset manager Grayscale. He argues that tokenization offers distinct advantages that legacy formats don't match. Products like BUIDL, for instance, pay daily dividends, something traditional money market funds do not, and investors are increasingly choosing tokenized Treasurys over stablecoins as collateral, largely because tokenized products share yield with holders. In addition, pairing tokenized funds with decentralized finance opens new lending opportunities. Jump will help Securitize to do just that: expand the role of tokenized assets in collateral management and trading. The tokenization sector is growing fast. Since BUIDL's launch, RWAs have more than doubled from about $9 billion in total value locked to $22.4 billion. Boston Consulting Group projects the tokenized asset market will balloon to $19 trillion by 2033. On Monday, the SEC's Crypto Task Force will host a roundtable on tokenization with issuers including Securitize. Meanwhile, the company is preparing its next act. In partnership with Lisbon-based Ethena Labs, it is about to launch a new blockchain called Converge. The idea is to create a compliant gateway for institutional capital into DeFi. Converge is expected to launch later this quarter.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tokenized Apollo Credit Fund Makes DeFi Debut With Levered-Yield Strategy by Securitize, Gauntlet
DUBAI, UAE — Tokenization firm Securitize and decentralized finance (DeFi) specialist Gauntlet are planning to bring a tokenized version of Apollo's credit fund to DeFi, a notable step in embedding real-world assets into the crypto ecosystem. The two firms are unveiling Wednesday a leveraged-yield strategy offering centered on the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED), a tokenized feeder fund that debuted in January and invests in Apollo's $1 billion Diversified Credit Fund. The strategy will run on Compound Blue, a lending protocol powered by Morpho, The offering, called Levered RWA Strategy, will be first available on Polygon (POL). It is expected to expand to the Ethereum mainnet and other blockchains after a pilot phase. "The idea behind the product is we want our securities to be plug and play competitive with stablecoin strategies writ large," Reid Simon, head of DeFi and credit solutions at Securitize, said in an interview with CoinDesk. The introduction comes as tokenized RWAs — funds, bonds, credit products — gain traction among traditional finance giants. BlackRock, HSBC, and Franklin Templeton are among the firms exploring blockchain-based asset issuance and settlement. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries alone have pulled in over $6 billion, according to data from While institutions are experimenting with tokenization, the next challenge is making these assets usable across DeFi applications. That includes enabling their use as collateral for loans, margin trading or building investment strategies not possible on legacy rails. The strategy employs a DeFi-native yield-optimization technique called "looping", in which ACRED tokens deposited into a vault are used as collateral to borrow USDC, which is then used to purchase more ACRED. The process repeats recursively to enhance yield, with exposure adjusted dynamically based on real-time borrowing and lending rates. All trades are automated using smart contracts, reducing the need for manual oversight. Risk is actively managed by Gauntlet's risk engine, which monitors leverage ratios and can unwind positions in volatile market conditions to protect users. "This is expected to deliver the institutional-grade DeFi that our industry has promised for years," Morpho CEO and cofounder Paul Frambot said. "This use case uniquely demonstrates how DeFi enables investors in funds like ACRED to access financial composability that is simply not possible on traditional rails.' The vault is also one of the first uses of Securitize's new sToken tool, which allows accredited token holders to maintain compliance and investor protections within decentralized networks. In this case, ACRED investors first mint sACRED that they can use for broader DeFi strategies without breaking regulatory rules. "This is a strong example of the institutional-grade DeFi we've been working to build: making tokenized securities not only accessible, but compelling to crypto-native investors seeking strategies that objectively outpace their traditional counterparts,' Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said in a statement.
AFP
25-04-2025
- Business
- AFP
Mantle Index Four (MI4) Fund Launches with Securitize as Tokenization Partner and Mantle Treasury as Anchor Investor
Mantle, a leading blockchain ecosystem at the forefront of decentralized finance (DeFi) with over $3 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) across its core products, today announced the launch of the Mantle Index Four (MI4) Fund. MI4 fills a key market gap: an institutional-grade crypto product with native yield generation, structured within a traditional fund format. Tailored for both crypto-native and traditional investors, MI4 offers access to leading digital assets without the operational complexity of self-custody or active token selection. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: Mantle Index Four (MI4) Fund Mantle Treasury has committed up to $400 million as the anchor investment into MI4, following the approval of a governance proposal by the DAO earlier this year. MI4 has also chosen Securitize, the leading real-world asset tokenization platform, to tokenize investors' interests in the Fund on Mantle Network. Structured as a BVI Limited Partnership and managed by Mantle Guard Limited (a newly established investment manager), MI4 combines regulated fund architecture with decentralized yield strategies. Investors gain streamlined exposure to a curated basket of major assets—BTC, ETH, SOL, and USD stablecoins/synthetic dollars—with dynamic weights guided by market capitalization and risk parameters. The fund rebalances quarterly and integrates staking strategies such as Mantle's mETH, Bybit's bbSOL, and Ethena's sUSDe, aiming to enhance returns through DeFi-native yield without sacrificing compliance or investor protections. All assets leverage institutional-grade infrastructure, including Fireblocks and multi-signature controls, with qualified custodians under consideration for added security in the future. MI4 is designed to become a new financial primitive—a bridge between TradFi and DeFi—positioned to serve as a benchmark for crypto beta exposure with yield enhancement. Harnessing Tokenization's Fullest Potential As of April 21, 2025, Securitize has tokenized and issued over $3 billion on-chain, as the launch partner for BlackRock's tokenized fund, BUIDL, with a TVL of $2.47 billion, as well as collaborations with other top-tier asset managers, including Apollo, KKR, and Hamilton Lane. By leveraging Securitize's tokenization infrastructure, MI4 investors can tokenize their fund interests. The tokenized interests can be transferred on Mantle Network between authorized participants in accordance with applicable private placement laws, unlocking crypto-native advantages such as real-time on-chain liquidity and, in compliance with the MI4's transfer provisions, the ability to use the tokenized fund as collateral for leverage on supported exchanges. 'MI4 and associated future products aim to become standards in crypto – our basket of the major crypto currencies aims to capture all capital on chain looking for smart beta with income and is a set-it-and-forget-it solution for institutions without the complexities of direct custody," said Timothy Chen, Global Head of Strategy at Mantle.1 "We've engineered MI4 to meet exacting institutional standards while seeking to deliver enhanced returns, and our partnership with Securitize reinforces our shared commitment to advancing tokenization at scale. Mantle Treasury's anchor investment showcases their confidence in MI4's structure and long-term value,' shared Sohan Sen, Director at Mantle Guard.2 "We're excited to launch MI4 with the Mantle team," said Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and CEO of Securitize. "Through Securitize's platform, investors will gain access to available real-time liquidity, the ability to use fund shares as on-chain collateral, as well as seamless interoperability with DeFi. That level of flexibility, combined with the attractive yields and institutional-grade structure, creates a product that mirrors the best of traditional finance while delivering the full potential of tokenized securities." MI4's initial rollout in Phase 1 will take place over Q2 2025, with future phases focused on broadening partnership and integration in the wider digital asset ecosystem. About Mantle Ecosystem A pioneering on-chain ecosystem dedicated to revolutionizing the future of finance and blockchain scalability, seamlessly bridging traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). Through innovative products like Mantle Network, mETH Protocol, Function (FBTC), and Mantle Index Four (MI4), Mantle's ecosystem empowers users and institutions with a unified financial services platform, redefining how the world spends, saves, and invests in the Web 3.0 era. For more information, please visit: About Securitize Securitize, the leader in tokenizing real-world assets, is bringing the world on-chain through tokenized funds in partnership with top-tier asset managers, such as Apollo, BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, KKR and others. Securitize, through its subsidiaries, is a SEC-registered broker dealer, digital transfer agent, fund administrator, and operator of a SEC-regulated Alternative Trading System (ATS) Securitize has also been recognized as a 2025 Forbes Top 50 Fintech company. For more information, please visit Securitize Disclosures Securities are offered through Securitize Markets, LLC, ('Securitize Markets') a registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Securitize Markets, LLC, and Securitize Capital, an Exempt Reporting Adviser, are not involved in Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization, a service provided by Securitize. Assets such as digital assets or tokens using blockchain, are speculative, involve a high degree of risk, are generally illiquid, may have no value, have limited regulatory certainty, are subject to potential market manipulation risks and may expose investors to loss of principal. Securitize, Inc. (Securitize) is a Delaware corporation. Securitize is a technology provider which, together with its affiliates, maintains an end-to-end web-based platform used by issuers for issuing securities, specifically including digital asset securities. Securitize is not a registered broker-dealer. Securitize, LLC is a transfer agent registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Securitize Markets also operates Securitize Markets ATS, an alternative trading system. Securitize Capital, LLC is an exempt reporting adviser filed with the State of Florida. MI4 Disclaimers The interests will only be offered to (i) non-U.S. Persons as defined by reference to Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or (ii) 'accredited investors' as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act. In each case, prospective investors must also satisfy the definition of 'professional investor' under the BVI Securities and Investment Business Act, 2010. Although general solicitation is permitted under Rule 506(c) offerings, purchasers must be accredited investors and meet certain Securities and Exchange Commission verification requirements for validation of their "accredited investor" status. This document is for information purposes only. This document does not constitute an offer or solicitation by anyone in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is not lawful or in which the person making such offer or solicitation is not qualified to do so or to anyone to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation. It is not intended for distribution or use by any person or entity who is a citizen or resident of or located in any jurisdiction where such distribution, publication or use would be prohibited. No action has been made or will be taken that would permit a public offering of the interests described herein in any jurisdiction in which action for that purpose is required. 1 This quote reflects the views of Mantle's team. MI4 is not a registered benchmark index. 2 This quote reflects the views of the Mantle Guard team and should not be interpreted as a guarantee of future performance or an endorsement by Securitize. 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