Unleash the power of digital assets
Capitalize on the digital economy by tokenizing financial assets, such as bonds, loans, and money markets, as well as assets like gold and real estate using DLT.
Welcome to the Digital Assets Hub
Tap into the potential of digital assets—those issued natively on blockchain and traditional securities that are digitally represented—with the latest insights, best practices, and resources from R3.
The time for digital assets is now
$5 trillion in assets could be tokenized on blockchains in the next five years, according to a June 2023 report from Bernstein. Potential benefits include operational efficiencies as well as access to new asset classes.
Settle in real time
Access to new sources of liquidity
Utilize global markets 24/7
Better manage counterparty and credit risk
Programmable and immutable transactions
Diversify asset universe
Lower transaction and asset servicing costs
Peer-to-peer direct-value transfer
Financial services leaders are already capitalizing on the digital asset revolution
The Six Digital Exchange is live and powering ground-breaking firsts
The world’s first bond issuance using a pure digital part in a fully regulated environment
The first to deliver a single seamless workflow from execution to atomic settlement on ledger
24/7 operating hours with reduced settlement risk and cost from T+0 settlement
First wholesale CBDC to be used to settle digital security transactions on SDX
DTCC’s Project Ion Platform
The goal of Project Ion is to provide a resilient, secure and scalable alternative settlement service.
Represents one of the largest DLT initiatives in equities settlement.
Processing 100,000+ bilateral equity transactions per day, and almost 160,000 transactions on peak days.
DTCC partnered with R3 to develop and launch the platform leveraging Corda as the underlying infrastructure.
Platform for investing in and financing sustainable assets
Regulated and supervised by BaFin (Germany)
Any sustainable asset can be financed, tokenized and individually allocated
Fractionalization allows minimum investment of €500
Digital Central Securities Depository (CSD) Platform and Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (D-FMI)
1st live digital bond issuance on Euroclear’s D-FMI
Reduced settlement time to reduced counterparty, credit and default risk
Expand customer and asset bases over time
Impactful shift in how capital markets operate
Manage full end-to-end asset lifecycle from issuance to settlement
Supporting the issuance, distribution and primary market settlement of fully dematerialised international securities – Digital Native Notes (DNN), on DLT
Digital Vault and Tokenized Securities Custody Services
$20B valued assets during launch
Cutting down administration costs and delays from issuance to participation
Asset owners can check their records without the need to request the paper certificate
1st bank in the world to offer tokenized gold
Cross-border digital cash solution
Faster transfer and reduced liquidity risk
Irreversible, near real-time settlement and reconciliation
Expanded operating hours with 24×7 transactions
Corda is a native tokenization platform for blockchain-based tokens and assets that are digitally represented
Leverage the tokenization API
Define tokens according to business need
Issue and consume tokens
Split and merge tokens
Transfer tokens across parties
Blockchain-based tokens
Native blockchain-based token where the direct issuer is the entity that’s liable for the claim against the token.
Traditional securities digitally represented on blockchain
Bridge between real-world assets and their trading, storage, and transfer in a digital form.
Growing consensus from industry participants that securities tokenization is a game-changer
“By enabling the digitalization of assets, tokenization expands the utility of blockchain beyond cryptocurrencies by demonstrating how it can securely represent and transfer real-world assets. Overall, tokenization is a compelling use case for blockchain technology, helping to increase its mainstream adoption.
Source: Gartner Blockchain Hype Cycle (2023)
“Citi Global Perspectives and Solutions forecasted USD 4 to 5 trillion of outstanding tokenized securities by 2030, coming from debt instruments, fund products, securities financing, and collateral.
Source: Money, Tokens, and Games: Blockchain’s Next Billion Users and Trillion in Value (Citi Global Perspectives and Solutions, 2023)
“HSBC estimated that digital assets would represent 5 to 10% of global assets by 2030.
Source: Beyond asset tokenization: the evolving role of asset servicing (HSBC, 2023)
Take advantage of the new era of digital finance
The old way
Asset lifecycle involves cumbersome contract management across multiple participants and systems
Manual trades take days to settle
Restrictions on asset fractionalization limit investor interest
Transactions involve a myriad of intermediaries making them slow, costly and bound by domestic borders
Multiple versions of the same transaction lead to costly and frequent reconciliation
The new way
Increased revenue through the identification of new asset classes and global markets
Borderless, fast and secure exchange of value between parties distributed across different jurisdictions
Faster, cheaper and more transparent international settlement
Increased transparency and liquidity through tokenization of traditional assets
Fractionalized assets eliminate barriers to entry for a larger market of investors
Immediate opportunities for financial services leaders
Resource corner
The regulated liability network on Corda
From fringe to future: why digital assets hold the key to the future of finance
Blockchain in the Digital Asset Ecosystem
Corda for Digital Assets Fact Sheet
The Incentives to Embrace Digital Assets
The Digital Assets Journey
The Role of Regulation in the New Digital Economy
Regulated digital assets are built on trust
R3’s Corda is the first DLT platform built specifically for regulated markets. As a native tokenization platform, Corda enables solutions that modernize, and digitize financial assets and existing market infrastructure without compromising on privacy and regulatory oversight.
R3 is a leading provider of enterprise distributed technology and services that enable the secure exchange of value in regulated industries where trust is critical.
A scalable tokenization platform that has facilitated hundreds of blockchain networks across capital markets and banking.
Connect with R3
No matter where you are on your digital asset journey, R3 can help you design, develop and deploy tokenization solutions that will provide immediate value to your customers.
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