Real Finance and Anchorage Digital Forge Strategic Alliance to Bolster Institutional On-Chain Markets
Real Finance, an EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain designed for real-world asset tokenization, has announced a strategic partnership with Anchorage Digital, the United States’ first federally chartered crypto bank. The collaboration, which also includes a qualified institutional custodian, aims to establish the regulated infrastructure essential for institutional-scale tokenized finance.
As real-world assets increasingly migrate onto the blockchain, financial institutions are seeking more than just the foundational technology for tokenization. The current tokenized asset ecosystem is characterized by fragmentation across various sectors, presenting significant hurdles for maturation into functional on-chain capital markets. Institutions frequently cite operational trust and disconnected counterparties as primary barriers to progress.
This partnership is designed to directly address these challenges. It integrates Anchorage Digital’s expertise in regulated custody, treasury management, settlement, and institutional security with Real Finance’s permissionless yet compliant issuance layer, lifecycle management tools, native risk visibility, and programmable financial primitives. The overarching objective is to construct a unified, institutional-grade framework that encompasses the entire lifecycle of tokenized assets, from compliant issuance and secure custody to servicing, settlement, and secondary liquidity.
The collaboration is also geared towards long-term strategic alignment across several key areas, including the development of regulated infrastructure for the future financial system. By connecting blockchain networks, regulated custody providers, financial institutions, and asset originators, this infrastructure will enable tokenized private credit, funds, real estate, structured products, and bank-integrated financial tools to operate with the operational trust and cohesion that institutions require.
Ivo Grigorov, CEO of Real Finance, stated, “Real Finance and Anchorage Digital are collaboratively building the institutional infrastructure for the next generation of tokenized financial markets. Tokenization alone is not enough. Institutions need trusted, regulated layers that integrate custody, servicing, settlement, and lifecycle management. Together we are moving the industry from experimentation toward functional on-chain capital markets and delivering the unified experience institutions demand.”
Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital, added, “RWAs are one of the clearest examples of how blockchain can modernize capital markets, but institutions need more than tokenization rails alone. They need regulated, secure infrastructure that can support custody, settlement, and lifecycle connectivity at scale. Our partnership with Real Finance brings together the core building blocks institutions need to move from isolated pilots to real onchain capital markets.”
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