Anchorage Digital to Custody Real Finance Tokenized Assets

Anchorage Digital announced a partnership with Real Finance to provide regulated custody, settlement and treasury services for tokenized assets issued on Real Finance’s EVM-compatible Layer 1, including the ASSET token. The integration connects onchain issuance and lifecycle tools with regulated custody for institutional clients.

Anchorage, a federally chartered crypto bank, will serve as the custody backbone for assets built on Real Finance’s chain and provide institutional security, settlement and treasury management services. Real Finance will supply issuance infrastructure, lifecycle management tools and programmable financial primitives used to construct tokenized instruments.

Under the agreement, Anchorage will custody the ASSET token and support new tokenized products as they launch on Real Finance’s network. Real Finance plans to promote regulated custody among its issuer network, while Anchorage will make its institutional clients available to the tokenization infrastructure on the chain.

Both firms said the tokenized asset market remains fragmented across issuance, custody, compliance, settlement, servicing and liquidity, and that those gaps have limited broader institutional adoption. The companies did not disclose commercial terms or a public timeline for wider rollouts beyond initial integration and ASSET token support.

“Tokenization alone is not enough. Institutions need trusted, regulated layers that integrate custody, servicing, settlement and lifecycle management,” Real Finance CEO Ivo Grigorov said. Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley added, “Real-world assets are a clear blockchain use case that require infrastructure that mirrors traditional financial safeguards.”