Anchored Finance is rolling out its brand new ‘onchain market layer’, which incorporates global public equity, institutional funds, and private assets into a programmable infrastructure stack.
With this in mind, Anchored intends to eliminate the large gap between the assets’ geography and their potential across other locations. Currently, there are approximately USD 29 billion being tokenized in the real-world asset (RWA) market, most of which are located within U.S. securities markets and exchanges.
How the Onchain Market Layer Works
The onchain market layer is designed as a modular stack for financial institutions, as well as exchanges or protocols to build upon. Each module serves as a single platform that incorporates the complete life cycle of an asset (origination, compliance, issuance, distribution, secondary market liquidity, and redemption), and all functions are seamlessly integrated on the same stack. To provide this level of integrated functionality, Anchored has partnered with several third-party exchanges and protocols.
These modules have core capabilities that include:
Global public equity (ERC-20 tokens with 1:1 backing and real-time price-parity mechanics), a continuous proof-of-reserve engine, Anchored’s proprietary market-making network that allows secondary market trading with narrow spreads, and an open integration layer that provides both Application Programming Interface (API) and developer tools.
Anchored can currently facilitate live distribution of the Open Integration Layer via Monday.Trade. Is working to integrate additional centralized and DeFi exchanges, as well as partnering with other foundational liquidity architectures to support narrow spread secondary trading without requiring any of their exchange partners to have to pre-deploy capital.
Importance of Tokenized Real-World Assets
The RWA marketplace is at an inflection point after its more than 500% surge since 2022, and is projected to reach more than USD 9 trillion by 2030. However, all of that market cap is held primarily in a single asset class and in one geographic location. Anchored is building a future where no matter where investors are, they can access a listing from NASDAQ, an institutional fund strategy, or a pre-IPO (Initial Public Offering) investment in a biotech company in Asia, for example, through the same programmable layer at any time, anywhere in the world, and without a broker.
