Tagged: tokenization
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GOLDEX GLOBAL
GOLDEX GLOBAL builds the world's first mass-produced robotic terminal for automatically assaying, buying, selling, pawning and storing gold and silver. Its self-service kiosks - branded Goldomat and ATM-Pawnshop - combine X-ray spectrometry, hydrostatic weighing and AI to appraise jewellery, coins and scrap in roughly 3-5 minutes and pay customers instantly to a bank card. The company pairs the hardware with management software, a vending line for investment bars and coins, and a blockchain layer for gold tokenization, positioning itself at the intersection of physical precious metals and digital finance.
NymCard
NymCard is an Abu Dhabi-based embedded finance and payments infrastructure company that lets banks, fintechs, telecoms and enterprises launch and run card programs, lending and money-movement products through a single API-first platform called nCore. Founded in 2018 by Omar Onsi, it owns its issuing and switching technology rather than licensing it, is licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE, and is a certified partner of Visa and Mastercard across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan.
SDAX
SDAX is a Singapore-based, MAS-regulated digital asset exchange that tokenises and fractionalises institutional-grade real-world assets - from real estate and private credit to securitised gold - so investors can access private-market deals from as little as SGD1,000 and trade them on a regulated secondary market.
Stake
Stake is a Dubai-based digital real estate investment platform that lets people buy fractions of income-generating property from as little as AED 500. Investors earn passive rental income and capital appreciation while Stake handles sourcing, acquisition, management and exit. Regulated by the DFSA in the UAE and the CMA in Saudi Arabia, the platform serves more than two million users across 181 countries and has expanded from Dubai into Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and US industrial real estate.
DeFi Devs
DeFi Devs is a Miami-based blockchain and AI development company that serves as the lead community developer of the Accumulate Protocol, an identity-based, delegated-proof-of-stake blockchain built for decentralized finance, digital identity, and enterprise tokenization. Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of Inveniam Capital Partners and led by Factom founder Paul Snow, the firm builds infrastructure for cross-chain atomic transactions, human-readable addresses, and hierarchical key management, positioning Accumulate as an 'Internet of Blockchains' that bridges regulated real-world assets onto decentralized rails.
Evervault
Evervault is a developer-first encryption platform that lets companies collect, store, process and forward highly sensitive data - especially payment card data - without ever handling it in plaintext. Founded in 2019 by Irish entrepreneur Shane Curran, the New York and Dublin based company pairs a dual-custody encryption model with products for card payments, secure enclaves and network proxying. It processes over $5 billion in transaction volume and generates more than 100 million encrypted tokens per month for customers including Ramp, Rippling and CarTrawler.
Fintiv
Fintiv is an Austin-based fintech infrastructure company that builds patented, white-label digital wallet ecosystems for telcos, banks and brands. Formerly known as Mozido, it pioneered the Trusted Services Manager (TSM) system for NFC tap-and-pay and says it has deployed wallet ecosystems across more than 35 countries. Today it positions its stack as a bridge from Web2 payments to Web3, adding digital-asset tokenization, real-time clearing and cross-border rails alongside its long-held mobile-wallet patent portfolio.
Dave Hendricks
Dave Hendricks is the co-founder and CEO of Vertalo, an Austin-based platform that acts as an SEC-registered transfer agent and tokenization engine for real-world assets. He has spent close to a decade building infrastructure to turn illiquid private securities into compliant, transferable digital assets. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded LiveIntent, the programmatic email advertising platform, and helped build CheetahMail into the world's largest email service provider before its 2004 sale to Experian. Earlier he ran the worldwide relationship between Arthur Andersen and Oracle and worked on large securitization projects. He is known for a pragmatic, institution-focused view of crypto and a habit of dismissing hype cycles in favor of durable financial plumbing.
David Wells
David Wells is the CEO of Ondo Perps, the equity-perpetuals trading arm of Ondo Finance, where he leads the push to bring leveraged trading of U.S. stocks, ETFs, and commodities onchain with tokenized shares usable as collateral. He founded and ran Enclave Markets, the first Fully Encrypted Exchange, incubated within Ava Labs, after earlier roles at Two Sigma and Paxos. A Harvard Business School graduate and long-time markets operator, Wells has spent his career building institutional-grade trading infrastructure and arguing that crypto markets still hold real inefficiencies for those who can build fair, private, and efficient venues.
Integral Privacy Technologies
Integral is a privacy engineering company that turns sensitive real-world data - starting with HIPAA-regulated healthcare records - into compliant, AI-ready datasets. Founded in 2022 by Shubh Sinha and John Kuhn, it pairs automated de-identification and continuous risk assessment with embedded statisticians and privacy engineers (its Forward Deployed Privacy Services) so enterprises and AI labs can use regulated data quickly without violating privacy law. The company positions itself as an independent privacy layer for the real-world data economy and has raised roughly $24.9M to date, including an $18M Series A closed in July 2026.
Noble
Noble is a purpose-built blockchain for native asset issuance, focused on stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. Built on the Cosmos SDK and connected through IBC, it is the canonical home of native USDC in the Cosmos ecosystem and the issuer of the yield-bearing Noble Dollar (USDN). Founded in 2022 by Jelena Djuric, Stefan Coolican and John Letey after the collapse of Terra's UST, Noble gives issuers such as Circle, Ondo Finance, Hashnote and Monerium a neutral, compliant rail to mint dollars and distribute them across dozens of connected chains - with no gas token required and fees paid in USDC.
Vertalo
Vertalo is an Austin-based fintech that operates an SEC-registered digital transfer agent and tokenization platform connecting the digital asset ecosystem. Since 2018 it has helped issuers, fund managers, broker-dealers and custodians move private securities on-chain - handling digital cap tables, investor onboarding, compliance and settlement across multiple blockchains. More recently it has pivoted toward 'agentic' infrastructure, exposing its regulated transfer-agency operations through APIs and an MCP server so AI agents can issue, record and transfer securities.
Basis Theory
Basis Theory is a payments infrastructure company that gives merchants a cloud-native, PCI Level 1-compliant vault to tokenize, route, and control sensitive payment data across any payment service provider - without vendor lock-in. Founded in 2020 by fintech veterans from Dwolla, Yodlee, and Klarna, the company has raised roughly $50 million and now positions its vault as the foundation for AI-driven, agentic commerce.
Qualpay
Qualpay is a San Mateo-based payments company that combines a merchant account and a payment gateway into a single cloud-based platform. Founded in 2014 by payments-industry veterans, it lets businesses accept card and ACH payments across online, in-person, phone and recurring channels, with tokenization, a customer vault, real-time reconciliation reporting and PCI DSS Level 1 security. In 2022 Synovus Bank took a majority stake to build an embedded finance platform on top of Qualpay's technology.
Michelle Neal
Michelle Neal is Group Chief Executive Officer of Fnality International, the London-based fintech running the first regulated DLT-based wholesale payment system. She joined Fnality in early 2025 after leading the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and previously ran BNY Mellon's global markets business as its CEO. Her mandate: extend Fnality's central-bank-backed settlement rails from sterling into dollar and euro, and turn a working pilot into the plumbing of 24/7 institutional finance.
Mike Love
Mike Love is the CEO and a founding team member of Fintiv, an Austin-based fintech that builds patented digital wallet infrastructure bridging traditional finance, loyalty, and Web3. A computer scientist by training and a career-long payments architect, he helped lead technology transformation at First Data (Fiserv) before joining Fintiv in 2012, and also founded Cloud Payments Network. He describes himself as a serial technology entrepreneur with over four decades in TMT and work across 75+ countries.
Paul Snow
Paul Snow is the inventor of the Factom protocol and the architect of the Accumulate blockchain, currently building tokenization and digital-identity infrastructure at DeFi Devs and IDD Labs. He co-founded the Texas Bitcoin Conference, testified before the U.S. Congress on blockchain, and is listed as inventor on more than 40 patents that now underpin Accumulate.
Sota Watanabe
Sota Watanabe is the founder and CEO of Startale Group, a Singapore-based Web3 infrastructure company backed by Sony and SBI. He is the founder of Astar Network, one of Japan's most recognized Layer-1 blockchains, and a central figure in Japan's push to bring tokenized stocks, JPY stablecoins, and onchain finance into the mainstream.
BAXUS
BAXUS is a New York-based peer-to-peer marketplace for fine and rare wines and spirits, built on the Solana blockchain. It authenticates physical bottles, stores them in climate-controlled vaults, and issues digital tokens representing direct ownership - giving collectors and institutions real-time pricing, instant trade settlement, and the ability to use bottles as loan collateral. The platform has facilitated over $20 million in whiskey trades and raised a $5M seed round led by Multicoin Capital in 2024.
Checker
Checker is a New York-based financial infrastructure company that lets regulated banks, fintechs and payment providers plug into stablecoins, digital-asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury and credit through a single API. Founded in 2023, it stitches together 50+ liquidity and infrastructure providers across 75+ currencies, and processed roughly $3 billion in volume over its first year - about 1% of global B2B stablecoin payment flows. In May 2026 it raised $8 million from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures and Framework Ventures to expand its network across Brazil, Kenya, Hong Kong and the United States.
N1
N1 (formerly Layer N) is a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain built specifically for onchain finance at scale. Founded by DeFi veterans Dima Romanov, David Cao, and Sheheryar Parvaz, N1 pairs an ultra-low-latency, congestion-free execution layer with native financial primitives - an onchain orderbook, atomic transaction bundles, unified margining, and RFQ - so that trading applications that previously had to run offchain can run natively onchain. Every app runs in its own isolated environment with no state congestion, and developers can write smart contracts in TypeScript (with Python and other languages on the way). Backed by Founders Fund, Multicoin Capital, dao5, Kraken Ventures, and Arthur Hayes, the New York-based team is targeting the performance ceiling that has kept serious finance from moving onchain.
Plural
Plural is a San Francisco fintech building the financial operating system for infrastructure - a programmable execution layer that tokenizes real-world energy assets like solar farms, battery storage, and data centers. It targets the 'missing middle' of clean energy: sub-$100M projects too small for traditional project finance but too big to ignore. By pairing smart-contract automation with a registered broker-dealer, Plural lets developers raise capital faster and lets institutional and alternative investors underwrite, monitor, and trade cash-flow streams from the electron economy.
Satschel, Inc.
Satschel, Inc. is a Whitefish, Montana-based financial technology company building frictionless compliance and investment infrastructure with blockchain, biometrics, and AI. Its Simplici platform compresses KYC, KYB, AML, accreditation, and e-signature into a mobile-first onboarding flow that runs in about four minutes, while its subsidiary Liquidity.io operates an SEC-regulated Digital Alternative Trading System for tokenized, traditionally illiquid assets.
Tirios
Tirios is an Austin-based proptech platform that lets everyday investors buy fractional shares of single-family rental homes for as little as $100. It uses AI to source and underwrite properties, records ownership on blockchain via tokenization, and manages the homes end-to-end - collecting rent, paying expenses, and distributing quarterly dividends. Founded in 2021 by former Icahn Enterprises executive Sachin Latawa, Tirios is SEC-qualified under Regulation A+ and pitches itself as a vertically integrated, low-fee way to make real estate investing accessible to millennials and first-time investors.
Karn Saroya
Karn Saroya is the co-founder and CEO of Re, a decentralized reinsurance protocol built on Avalanche that connects alternative capital to the nearly $1 trillion global reinsurance market. A Canadian-born, MIT-trained Fulbright scholar, he previously co-founded the YC-backed insurtech Cover and worked as a financial-services consultant at Oliver Wyman before deciding the insurance stack itself needed to be torn down and rebuilt on-chain.
Adam Silver
Adam Silver is the co-founder and CEO of Plural (Plural Finance / Plural Energy), a San Francisco startup building a financial operating system for energy infrastructure. Plural tokenizes real-world clean energy assets - solar arrays, batteries, and data centers - turning them into programmable, investable products, and runs a FINRA-member broker-dealer with a transfer agent license. A former Deloitte consultant and ServiceNow product lead, Silver became obsessed with what he calls 'the miracle of lights turning on,' then with the unacceptable difficulty of financing the assets behind it. In September 2025 Plural closed an oversubscribed $7.13M seed round led by Paradigm, bringing total funding to roughly $9.3M, with over $300M in distributed solar and battery assets available for investment.
Austin Trombley
Austin Trombley is the founder and CEO of Satschel, Inc., the Whitefish, Montana parent company behind Liquidity.io (a regulated tokenized trading platform), Simplici (KYC/AML onboarding and compliance), and ARQ Securities. A software engineer turned fintech executive, he co-founded the machine-learning hedge fund Random Forest Capital, which Franklin Templeton acquired roughly 15 months in, then served as VP of Blockchain & AI at Franklin Templeton and EVP at the payments company SpotOn before building Satschel's stack for bringing private credit and private equity onto public blockchains.
Jack Chong
Jack Chong is the co-founder and CEO of Checker, a New York fintech that gives banks and payment companies a single API to reach the world's stablecoin and digital-asset liquidity. An Oxford PPE graduate who once trained to be a Chinese diplomat in the Arab world, he co-wrote one of the industry's first rigorous primers on real-world-asset tokenization before building Checker, which moved more than $3 billion in volume in under a year and raised $8M led by Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures and Framework Ventures.
Sachin Latawa
Sachin Latawa is the founder and CEO of Tirios, an Austin-based proptech platform that lets everyday people invest in single-family rental homes for as little as $100. Before building Tirios, he ran real estate for Carl Icahn's empire as CFO of Real Estate at Icahn Enterprises, where he managed more than $1.1 billion in assets across homebuilding, distressed assets, resorts, offices and industrial property. He now pairs that institutional pedigree with AI-driven underwriting and blockchain tokenization to crack open a $10 trillion asset class that, by his own count, only about 5% of people can actually reach.
Tzvi Wiesel
Tzvi Wiesel, who also goes by Todd, is the co-founder and CEO of BAXUS, an on-chain marketplace for rare wine and spirits built on Solana. A former fine-and-rare bottle and cask trader, he set out to fix what he calls an antiquated, broken secondary market for collectible liquids by giving each bottle a tokenized, tamper-proof record of provenance and ownership. Under his lead BAXUS acquired the collection-tracking app BoozApp, raised a $5M seed round led by Multicoin Capital, and now connects thousands of collectors, brands and institutions worldwide. He is also a working whiskey reviewer, heading the US reviews team at The Whiskey Wash.