Animoca Brands announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Rayls, a blockchain ecosystem to bridge traditional finance with decentralized finance, for a strategic partnership focused on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs). The partnership will leverage Animoca Brands’ network to spearhead the “origination of RWAs by identifying asset classes and issuers for tokenization on Rayls infrastructure.”
Animoca Brands will now aim to support the structuring of the economic, technical, privacy, utility parameters for the tokenization of such RWAs.
NUVA, a unified and chain-agnostic vault marketplace, is expected to be used as a distributor of Rayls-tokenized RWAs. Rayls will provide NUVA with assets, technology or services “to enhance yields, liquidity, and investor engagement. Rayls will supply the core institutional settlement and privacy infrastructure to NUVA.”
To support NUVA’s distribution of Rayls-tokenized RWAs, Rayls will also make available “to NUVA cross-chain bridge solutions, the necessary technical interfaces, and settlement workflows. ”
Marcos Viriato, co-founder and CEO of Parfin, the core developer of Rayls, said that now more than ever, “institutional adoption is increasingly important to provide stability and reliability within crypto.”
They added that with Animoca Brands’ reach, Rayls can now “enable more widespread adoption of RWAs and new sectors for tokenisation.”
Evan Auyang, group president of Animoca Brands, has said that their latest partnership with Rayls potentially unlocks a “pipeline for tokenizing trillions in real-world assets globally.”
Auyang added that by fusing Rayls’ settlement and privacy rails with Animoca Brands’ “ecosystem and NUVA’s chain-agnostic vaults, they’re forging the future infrastructure for institutional DeFi’s next era in driving yields, liquidity, and true global access.”
As noted in the update, Rayls is the blockchain for banking institutions as well as financial institutions, “bridging traditional finance and DeFi.”
Developed by Parfin, Rayls is an EVM-compatible, “public-permissioned network engineered to meet institutional requirements for privacy, scalability, and compliance.”
Rayls utilizes quantum-safe privacy, native “governance controls, and its unique Privacy Node technology to securely link TradFi systems to public blockchains.”
This infrastructure accelerates the global adoption of “tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins, and CBDCs.”
Rayls’ stated mission is to bring $100T in liquidity and 6 billion users onchain—strengthening DeFi through “deeper liquidity, broader asset access, and a more competitive and innovative onchain ecosystem.”
As covered, Animoca Brands Corporation Limited is a global digital assets leader building blockchain and “tokenized assets to advance the future of Web3.”
