- Real Finance and Anchorage Digital form the Infrastructure RWA.
- The partnership combines tokenization, custody and settlement tools.
- Companies target institutional adoption of cross-chain capital markets.
Real Finance and Anchorage Digital have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at supporting the full lifecycle of tokenized assets, as institutional interest in tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) continues to grow.
This collaboration combines Real Finance’s blockchain-based token infrastructure with Anchorage Digital’s regulated custody, treasury management, settlement, and institutional security capabilities.
The companies said the partnership is designed to address key operational challenges that have slowed broader institutional adoption of tokenized financial products.
Under the agreement, the two companies will work together in the areas of asset issuance, custody, settlement, servicing and secondary market liquidity.
The initiative aims to provide a more integrated framework for institutions looking to participate in cross-chain capital markets.
Focus on custody and coding infrastructure
Real Finance operates a layer-one blockchain technology compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) that was specifically developed for real-world asset tokenization.
Meanwhile, Anchorage Digital is the parent company of the first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank in the United States and serves as a qualified institutional trustee.
As part of the partnership, Anchorage Digital will provide regulated custody and treasury infrastructure for the Real Finance ecosystem and its native ASSET token.
The companies also said that Anchorage Digital will serve as the primary custody layer for tokenized financial instruments launched on the Real Finance blockchain.
This arrangement aims to support broader institutional participation by offering regulated custody services alongside the issuance of tokenized assets.
Additionally, both companies will support their respective enterprise customer pipelines.
Real Finance expects to generate additional demand for custody services through asset issuers and onboarding initiatives, while Anchorage Digital plans to connect institutional clients with tokenization solutions and blockchain infrastructure built on Real Finance.
Companies target institutional adoption
Executives from both companies said the partnership focuses on building the infrastructure needed to adopt tokenized assets at an institutional level.
Ivo Grigorov, CEO of Real Finance, said:
“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, structured 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 that institutions demand.”
Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital, added:
“RWAs are one of the clearest examples of how blockchain is modernizing capital markets, but institutions need more than just tokenization pipelines alone. They need regulated, secure infrastructure that can support custody, settlement, and lifecycle connectivity at scale. Our partnership with Real Finance brings together the building blocks institutions need to move from siled pilots to real capital markets on blockchain.”
Retail processing in token markets
The token asset ecosystem remains fragmented across issuance, custody, compliance, settlement, servicing and liquidity infrastructure, the companies said.
According to the companies, organizations often cite operational confidence concerns and disconnected counterparties as barriers to broader adoption.
The partnership aims to create a more connected framework by combining blockchain infrastructure, regulated custody, treasury management, settlement capabilities, and tokenization tools.
Real Finance and Anchorage Digital said the framework could support a range of tokenized asset classes, including private credit, investment funds, real estate, structured products and financial instruments integrated with banks.
The announcement comes as financial institutions continue to explore tokenized assets as a way to modernize capital markets infrastructure and expand access to blockchain-based financial services.
By integrating custody, settlement and tokenization capabilities within a single ecosystem, the two companies aim to address some of the operational challenges that have limited the growth of enterprise on-chain markets.
