Animoca Brands & Rayls team up to boost RWA tokenisation access
Animoca Brands has agreed a strategic partnership with Rayls to accelerate the tokenisation of real-world assets (RWAs), aiming to create new pathways for institutional and retail access to digital securities.
Tokenisation expansion
The two firms plan to utilise Animoca Brands' network to source asset classes and issuers suitable for tokenisation using Rayls' blockchain infrastructure. Under the agreement, Animoca Brands will also work on structuring the economic, technical, privacy, and utility elements required to bring RWAs onto the blockchain.
Distribution marketplace
The companies are set to employ NUVA, described as a chain-agnostic vault marketplace, as the distributor for Rayls-tokenised assets. Rayls will deliver assets, technology, and services to NUVA, providing the marketplace with enhanced yield options, improved liquidity, and tools for deeper investor engagement. Rayls will also offer the institutional settlement and privacy systems behind the distribution process on NUVA.
In addition, Rayls will support NUVA with cross-chain bridge solutions, technical interfaces, and settlement workflows. These components are intended to facilitate cross-network movement and management of digital assets in a manner that meets institutional market needs.
Institutional requirements
Rayls is developed as a blockchain platform for banks and financial institutions. It offers a public-permissioned environment compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine and is engineered to comply with requirements for privacy, scalability, and governance. Rayls' infrastructure incorporates privacy features considered suitable for connecting traditional finance systems with public blockchains, supporting the tokenisation of various assets, including stablecoins and central bank digital currencies.
Adoption focus
Rayls' strategy focuses on enabling wider industry adoption of RWAs, which are physical or traditional financial assets represented in tokenised digital form. This approach is intended to increase the liquidity and accessibility of such assets for institutional investors and, eventually, a global investor base.
"Now more than ever, institutional adoption is increasingly important to provide stability and reliability within crypto. With Animoca Brands' reach, Rayls can enable more widespread adoption of RWAs and pioneer new sectors for tokenisation," said Marcos Viriato, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Parfin.
Animoca Brands will contribute its ecosystem of digital assets and partners, which the firm says is key to helping develop the infrastructure underpinning institutional decentralised finance (DeFi). The partnership intends to address both commercial and regulatory priorities around privacy, compliance, and asset governance for tokenised assets.
"Our partnership with Rayls unlocks a seamless pipeline for tokenizing trillions in real-world assets globally. By fusing Rayls' institutional-grade settlement and privacy rails with Animoca Brands' vast ecosystem and NUVA's chain-agnostic vaults, we're forging the future infrastructure for institutional DeFi's next era in driving yields, liquidity, and true global access," said Evan Auyang, Group President, Animoca Brands.