TL;DR
- Animoca Brands signed a memorandum of understanding with Rayls and assigned NUVA a central role in structuring and distributing tokenized real-world assets at an institutional scale.
- The agreement unifies Animoca’s asset origination, Rayls’ tokenization and settlement infrastructure, and NUVA’s multichain marketplace.
- The partnership aims to deliver processes aligned with regulatory standards and infrastructure capable of supporting consistent yields and stable liquidity for institutional investors.
Animoca Brands opened a new path to expand institutional access to the tokenized real-world asset market. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Rayls, an ecosystem designed to connect traditional finance with DeFi, and designated NUVA as a key distribution layer.
The agreement brings together three components that aim to organize how RWAs are originated, structured, and distributed in a market that is beginning to demand stronger infrastructure and processes aligned with regulatory expectations.
What Will Each Company Do?
The partnership establishes that Animoca will identify asset classes and issuers suitable for tokenization on the Rayls infrastructure. That origination layer will be central to supplying a steady flow of assets backed by tangible value. Rayls will provide the technical tools needed to define how those RWAs are represented on-chain: economic parameters, privacy mechanisms, and utilities that dictate how these instruments are used within DeFi applications targeting institutional investors.
NUVA, meanwhile, will function as a multichain marketplace that distributes the RWAs tokenized by Rayls. To support that role, Rayls will deliver liquidity modules, yield-enhancing solutions, and tools designed to increase investor participation across blockchain environments. It will also provide the institutional settlement layer, cross-chain bridges, and the technical workflows required to move tokenized positions securely between networks.
This framework is designed to address a critical gap: the lack of institutional-grade infrastructure for RWAs. The combined strength of Animoca’s reach, Rayls’ tokenization architecture, and NUVA’s vault structure aims to create a complete circuit capable of originating assets, tokenizing them under institutional standards, and distributing them through a system with privacy and settlement processes compatible with regulated entities. The ability to deliver consistent yields and reliable liquidity will depend on how effectively Rayls’ technical stack integrates with NUVA’s operational layer.
Animoca Establishes a Direct Path to Tokenize Trillion-Dollar Markets
Rayls executives noted that institutional adoption is essential to bringing stability and expanding the user base for RWAs. Evan Auyang, president of Animoca Brands, said the partnership opens a direct channel to tokenize global markets worth trillions and to build infrastructure capable of supporting the next phase of institutional DeFi.
If the model is executed as planned, it could attract more issuers and providers seeking to represent traditional assets on blockchain rails and open new investment channels with broader reach. Animoca Brands, Rayls, and NUVA could play a decisive role in shaping the emerging institutional-scale RWA market
