Republic Digital invests in Centrifuge to tap into the $24 billion tokenized real-world asset market

Republic Digital, the digital assets arm of investment and crowdfunding platform Republic, has made a strategic investment in Centrifuge, a real‑world asset (RWA) tokenization platform, via its Opportunistic Digital Assets Fund. The size of the investment was not disclosed, but both firms frame the deal as a longer‑term alignment around the thesis that tokenized RWAs will become a “foundational” pillar of the next financial system. Centrifuge focuses on bringing financial products such as credit and fixed‑income exposures onchain and reports having tokenized more than 1,700 assets and financed around $1.15 billion in assets, with total value locked in its RWA platform rising from about $120 million to $1.2 billion in six months. The backdrop is the still‑nascent but expanding market for tokenized RWAs: Republic Digital cites roughly $24 billion of RWAs currently onchain compared with an addressable $125 trillion global asset‑management market, underscoring how early tokenization remains relative to traditional finance. Centrifuge’s infrastructure is used by asset managers and individual investors, and its structures include products like the JAAA ETF, which offers exposure to collateralized loan obligations typically reserved for institutional buyers but made accessible to a broader investor base. Republic positions the investment as part of a broader push into tokenization and digital asset infrastructure, while Centrifuge plans to use the capital to accelerate product development aimed at making RWAs more transferable, composable, and liquid, in order to support globally accessible, regulated onchain investment products.

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