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NGI+ is now live, bringing the Partners Group Evergreen SICAV - Next Generation Infrastructure strategy on-chain, with Asseto providing the tokenization infrastructure. Private infrastructure is one of the most valued allocation asset classes among institutional investors, yet it has historically been difficult to access. NGI+ was designed to bridge that gap, giving eligible investors on-chain economic exposure linked to the net asset value performance of an established global private infrastructure strategy managed by Partners Group. Asseto built the full on-chain lifecycle infrastructure for NGI+, from aligning legal structures with smart contract logic, to connecting on-chain flows with the underlying fund's operational cadence, to delivering continuous proof of reserves and independent audits. This is the most structurally complex asset we have brought on-chain to date, extending our coverage from money markets, fixed income, and supply chain finance into private infrastructure equity. Read more in our latest article➡️asseto.finance/insights/asset…

The Investment Company Institute, the main trade body for U.S. mutual funds, put out its view on tokenization this week: it can help funds fractionalize shares and lower the entry barrier for retail investors, while stressing that none of it should weaken existing investor protections. Worth noting for who is saying it. When the traditional asset-management establishment starts publishing frameworks on tokenization, the conversation has moved well past whether it belongs in regulated funds.

Japan just reclassified Bitcoin and 105 other crypto assets as financial assets, putting them on the same legal footing as stocks and bonds. Bundled in: securities-grade insider-trading and disclosure rules, and a maximum penalty for unregistered custody raised to 10 years. This is what “institutionalization” actually looks like up close. Not lighter rules, heavier ones. A G7 economy is treating tokenized and crypto assets as serious securities, with the criminal liability to match.

5/ 💡 The Asseto View: This week’s launches ran core clearing and fund-registration functions on-chain under existing regulatory oversight. As those functions move on-chain, the ability to issue compliantly within a regulator’s perimeter, with the blockchain serving as the legal register, and to move collateral in real time may become more relevant to how these markets develop. A digital-twin structure keeps a parallel off-chain book alongside the token; a natively issued structure does not. Asseto provides the technology and operational infrastructure for compliant, natively issued on-chain distribution of institutional-grade assets within Hong Kong’s regulatory perimeter. Follow us for next week’s Asseto RWA Watch brief, and continue tracking the critical evolution of the RWA sector.

4/ Market Data: Distributed on-chain RWA value (excluding stablecoins) sits near $33.5 billion, held across roughly 959,000 wallets and up about 4% over the past month. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries and cash-equivalent instruments account for the majority of non-stablecoin value. For context on usage, the value currently deployed as active on-chain collateral remains under $2 billion, a small share of the total.

This week, Hong Kong authorized a fund that uses the blockchain as its sole register of fund ownership, and the world’s largest securities depository ran tokenized clearing and settlement in live production. Both cases involve core functions of traditional capital markets running on-chain, fund registration in one and clearing and settlement in the other. Asseto tracks this shift. Dive into the critical movements this week. 👇

Introducing Asseto Instant. A new settlement layer built for RWA secondary trading, closing a gap the RWA industry has left open for years. RWA has spent years building the asset side: compliant issuance, on-chain minting, subscription and redemption. But once you hold an RWA token, the next question is simple: I want to buy or sell, now. The answer has never been very good. Primary redemptions come with lock-ups. On-chain DEX pools are thin. Quotes sit scattered across protocols and market makers. Asseto Instant closes this gap. It aggregates on-chain AMM liquidity and off-chain market maker quotes into one interface, matches every order to its optimal execution path automatically, and displays only the best available result. Multiple market makers quoting in parallel. Three settlement paths, all handled behind the scenes. One click, best execution. Read the full breakdown: asseto.finance/insights/asset…

The Japan RWA, Stablecoin & BNB Ecosystem forum took place during WebX 2026 in Tokyo, hosted by ASIAN STAR with @hashglobal and @BNBCHAIN as blockchain ecosystem partner. Asseto CEO & Co-Founder Bridget Li joined Panel 1, "Tokenization of Real-World Assets and Compliance Boundaries“. Bridget emphasized that compliance is the foundation of real-world asset tokenization, shaping which assets can be brought on-chain and how custody, valuation, disclosure, and investor suitability are handled. Once these requirements are built into the underlying infrastructure, a tokenized asset meets institutional and regulatory standards by design. That logic shows in NGI+, where custody, valuation, and disclosure are built into the structure, allowing this tokenized private infrastructure equity fund tracking Partners Group's Next Generation Infrastructure strategy to reach institutional participants within a compliant framework. Thank you to the organizers for a substantive discussion.

At WebX 2026 in Tokyo, Asseto CEO & Co-Founder Bridget Li joined the On-Chain Finance Forum Tokyo 2026, hosted by @HSKChain, on the panel "Bridging RWA and On-Chain Liquidity: A New Paradigm for Institutional Finance." Bridget noted that the value of tokenization depends on whether tokens can move through compliant, liquid on-chain markets, and that closing the distance between an asset going on-chain and becoming usable liquidity takes full-stack infrastructure spanning custody, compliance, pricing, and settlement. That is the work Asseto does as a full-stack asset tokenization infrastructure and service provider. NGI+, recently launched, is one example. Tracking Partners Group's Next Generation Infrastructure strategy, it brings private infrastructure assets on-chain and opens an access route for institutional participants.

Most people assume institutions pick a blockchain on performance. They pick it on risk weighting. Under Basel Committee (BCBS) rules, assets held on permissionless chains, which lack transaction-level privacy and any accountable compliance entity, can carry a risk weight as high as 1,250%. For a licensed bank, that is not a technical footnote. It is a balance-sheet cost heavy enough to make the asset uneconomic to hold. This is the real reason public permissioned infrastructure is winning institutional RWA flows, and why compliance is not a constraint layered on top of tokenization. It is the thing that determines whether a regulated institution can hold the asset at all. The chain question was never really about speed.

5/ 💡 The Asseto View: As yield-bearing Treasuries and blue-chip stocks begin serving as margin for on-chain derivatives, the center of gravity in tokenization is shifting from whether an asset's rights can be confirmed toward whether it can be safely used. The two are not in tension. An asset becomes reliable collateral only when its underlying claim is clear, enforceable, and paired with a compliant path in and out. Collateral without legal certainty is worthless under stress. Asseto builds the technology and operational infrastructure for exactly that, connecting institutional-grade assets to compliant on-chain distribution within Hong Kong's regulatory perimeter, so issuers and partners can bring assets on-chain, and put them to use, without giving up legal certainty. Follow us for next week's Asseto RWA Watch brief, and continue tracking the critical evolution of the RWA sector.

4/ Market Data: Distributed on-chain RWA value (excluding stablecoins) climbed to roughly $33.5 billion as of July 8, up from about $30.6 billion a week earlier, with the holder base near 961,000. The fastest-moving category is tokenized equities, where monthly transfer volume rose about 105% to $8.4 billion and distributed value is up more than 470% year on year, though it remains a small slice of the total in dollar terms. The carryover from SpaceX's June listing kept 24/7 on-chain stock trading elevated, making equities the most actively traded RWA class rather than the largest. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries remain the anchor at more than half of non-stablecoin value.

The most substantive shift in RWA this week was yield-bearing assets moving from static holdings toward programmable collateral. Several new launches let holders post tokenized Treasuries and tokenized stocks as margin for on-chain leveraged positions without giving up the underlying yield. The backdrop is the tokenized-equity momentum carried over from last month's SpaceX IPO, but the new variable is RWAs becoming the collateral base for on-chain derivatives. Asseto tracks this evolution from confirmation of rights toward usability. Dive into the critical movements this week. 👇

Great to see NGI+ reaching eligible investors through DL Holdings, bringing institutional-grade infrastructure assets on-chain.

DTCC is preparing to bring tokenized equities, ETFs and U.S. Treasuries onto the Stellar public network. The detail most coverage will skip is the control layer. Whitelisted wallets pass sanctions and AML screening before activation, and DTCC retains override keys at the smart-contract level, able to burn, reclaim or redirect tokens if a court freeze or theft occurs. This is what institutional-grade assets look like on a public chain: open distribution, central accountability preserved. The infrastructure question is no longer whether, but under whose controls.

Asseto is glad to join The GCC <> APAC Venture Corridor in Hong Kong on 9 July, alongside @brincvc, @Ripple, @AWSCloud, @Cyberport_hk, @ambergroup_io, and @osldotcom. Our Co-Founder JJ joins the panel on tokenization, stablecoins, and the cross-border opportunities connecting APAC and the GCC. Attendance is curated. Apply to attend below. luma.com/myb7hy1a?hss_c…