Tokenization · U.S. · Wall Street · CoinDesk
OpenAssets itself raised $10 million last year to build tokenization infrastructure
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Key facts
- In July 2025, Brazilian credit structuring and securitization firm VERT Capital unveiled plans to tokenize as much as $1 billion of debt and receivables on the XDC Network
- OpenAssets itself raised $10 million last year to build tokenization infrastructure
- Itaú Unibanco has started working with digital-asset infrastructure provider OpenAssets on a tokenization pilot run by Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association ANBIMA, the companies said
- Brazil has been one of the most forward-looking markets in finance and it is a natural place to move tokenization from exploration to production,” said Gabor Gurbacs, chairman and CEO of OpenAssets
Summary
Itaú, Latin America’s largest bank by assets, is working with OpenAssets on an industry-led test of tokenized fixed income and investment funds. Brazil has emerged as a testing ground for putting bonds, credit and other financial assets on blockchains under regulated structures. Brazil’s biggest bank is taking another step into tokenized assets, adding to a growing list of the country’s financial heavyweights experimenting with putting traditional investments on blockchain rails. Itaú Unibanco has started working with digital-asset infrastructure provider OpenAssets on a tokenization pilot run by Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association ANBIMA, the companies said Tuesday. The project will test how fixed-income securities and investment funds can be issued, traded and settled using distributed-ledger technology, the firms said in a press release.