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Exciting news for the future of Ascend ⚡

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Today, Ascend is announcing a strategic partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (@StellarOrg), including a direct investment of US$1 million in Ascend. The work is centered on a simple market question: what comes after tokenization? Ascend is being built to help regulated real-world assets become usable as onchain credit collateral under explicit compliance controls. That includes permissioned vaults, continuous risk monitoring, and structured resolution for distressed assets. This work extends Ascend’s compliance-first framework for regulated RWAs to the Stellar network and reflects a broader push toward making tokenized assets usable within public blockchain credit infrastructure. Read the full announcement: psg-digital.com/post/stellar-d…

.@AscendFi is solving a critical gap in the market by building credit infrastructure purpose-built for regulated, real-world assets. This is how RWAs move from being issued onchain to being actively used across financial markets at scale. stellar.org/press/stellar-…

$100B in tokenized assets is only meaningful if those assets can be used. Today, most regulated RWAs remain economically idle after issuance. They can be recorded onchain, but cannot be pledged, moved, or connected to liquidity without breaking compliance. Ascend is being built to solve this. Working with @trex_network, bolstered by its recent $100B commitment via @ApexGlobalGroup, helps us enable ERC-3643 assets to function as compliant collateral within onchain credit markets. Much thanks to @0xMuchScience , @LucFalempin and @RealDennisO for helping facilitate this partnership.

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The innovation exemption for tokenized securities will be one of the most important things to watch this year, especially when paired with the recent Fed/OCC/FDIC capital guidance on tokenized securities being treated the same as traditional ones. Historically, one core blocker for institutional RWA credit reaching open markets has been the absence of a compliant pathway that lets regulated, identity-bound assets interact with permissionless liquidity. Every prior attempt to solve this struggled to address even the foundational regulatory pieces simultaneously. An innovation exemption would change that calculus by creating the regulatory surface for permissioned-to-permissionless architectures; where assets are issued with wallet-bound identity and transfer rules, and can then be routed into open credit markets. Meanwhile, there is finally increased regulatory clarity on how tokenized capital treatment. Compliant RWA credit at institutional scale is still a work in progress: but the path ahead is beginning to look clearer by the moment.

In a nutshell, here's what Ascend is doing to create a market structure for RWAs that will actually work. ERC‑3643 gets regulated assets onchain, T‑REX (@trex_network) keeps identity + compliance coherent across chains, and Ascend's Permissioned Vaults add the missing credit layer. That mirrors how TradFi actually works (80–85% of flows are collateralized), ensuring a standards‑first, regulator‑aligned approach from day one. This week we’ll be spotlighting how Ascend’s Permissioned Vaults work in practice: from ERC‑3643 collateral, to stablecoin credit lines, to permissionless DeFi usage. Follow @AscendFi to learn more about the market structure we’re building.

Credit markets run on reference data, automation, and enforceable processes. As tokenization moves from pilots to real flows, @chainlink's stack (data + interop + orchestration) becomes foundational. Looking forward to unveiling more detail on our Chainlink integration soon.

Happy Year of the Horse. May all of us in this space gallop toward prosperous markets built on strong foundations.

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Markets need standards. So do you. Bonds form where standards hold. Happy Valentine’s Day.

The direction is becoming clear. Regulated RWAs are moving into DeFi. Permissioned and permissionless tokens will coexist; each will serve a particular purpose. But scaling credit markets onchain requires more than wrappers. Identity, reliable data, and clear rules must be built in from the start. That’s what Ascend is designed for. Follow for more on how institutional credit can evolve onchain.

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The future of RWAs is here to stay!

Chainlink's infrastructure makes Ascend possible. Specifically, we're building on CCIP, CRE, ACE + custom RWA oracles. Reliable data. Cross-chain connectivity. Secure offchain compute. The infra RWAs need to operate compliantly onchain is on @chainlink . Ascend will leverage it all for composable RWAs. Follow us + hit the bell to be first to know.

Tokenizing assets was never the hard part. Making a market for them was. #RWA summer never happened. Not because the tech was bad, but because the market structure for them simply didn’t exist yet. Something new is being built.