Anchorage Digital, which is home to the first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank in the United States and a qualified institutional custodian, and Real Finance, which is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that was purpose-built for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, have announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership to support the full lifecycle of tokenized assets. This partnership will cover issuance, custody, settlement, servicing, and secondary liquidity.
Through the cooperation, the capabilities of Anchorage Digital in the areas of regulated custody, treasury management, settlement, and institutional security will be merged with those of Real Finance in the areas of issuance infrastructure, lifecycle management tools, risk visibility framework, and programmable financial primitives.
In order to facilitate the cooperation, many main areas have been designed:
- Treasury & Ecosystem Custody: Anchorage Digital will offer regulated custody and treasury infrastructure for the Real Finance ecosystem and its native $ASSET token.
- Foundational Custody Layer: Anchorage Digital will act as a custody layer that supports greater institutional involvement when new tokenized financial products are deployed on the Real Finance Layer 1 blockchain. This layer is known as the foundational custody layer.
- Mutual Pipeline Support: The two organizations will support one another’s institutional pipelines. Through its asset issuers and onboarding activities, Real Finance will generate extra demand for regulated custody. Anchorage Digital, on the other hand, will link institutional customers with tokenization and blockchain infrastructure solutions that are based on Real Finance.
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, 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, Anchorage Digital, said:
“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.”
As real-world assets continue to move onchain, institutions require more than tokenization infrastructure alone. The ecosystem of tokenized assets continues to be fragmented in terms of issuance, custody and compliance, settlement, service, and liquidity infrastructure. Institutions consistently cite operational trust and disconnected counterparties as barriers preventing tokenized assets from maturing into functional onchain capital markets.
In order to solve these difficulties, the businesses have said that the alliance is designed to bring together blockchain technology, regulated custody, treasury management, settlement capabilities, and tokenization infrastructure inside a framework that is more linked. It has been said by the corporations that this framework is intended to provide support for tokenized private credit, money, real estate, structured goods, and financial instruments that are connected with banks.
