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The $807 billion asset manager is bringing a high-yield corporate bond strategy onto blockchain with Centrifuge as Wall Street expands beyond tokenized Treasury funds.

The move expands DeFi institutional assets to include Wall Street heavy hitters. Centrifuge is bringing tokenized Treasurys, AAA-rated CLOs and private credit to the Monad blockchain, making for the first availability of institutional-grade assets on the network. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the integration includes tokenized products from Janus Henderson and Apollo Global Management, including JTRSY, JAAA and ACRDX, with investors holding onchain fund shares that represent direct claims on the underlying assets and support in-kind redemptions. Centrifuge is also introducing freely transferable versions of these assets (deJTRSY, deJAAA and deCRDX) designed for use across the Monad ecosystem in lending, collateral and secondary market activity. Read more

Panelists in Rio have outlined how real-world assets have progressed from trials to production, with treasuries and high-quality funds leading, institutions piloting digital twins, and deeper liquidity and interoperability set to expand the market toward trillions by 2030.ons by 2030, panelists said during a session moderated by CryptoNews in Rio, Brazil. The post ‘Trillions by 2030’: Stellar, Centrifuge and Moody’s Outline What’s Next for Real-World Assets appeared first on Cryptonews.

Centrifuge joins BlackRock’s BUIDL and Ondo Finance in the $1 billion RWA club as demand grows for tokenized products. Blockchain infrastructure platform Centrifuge has crossed $1 billion in total value locked (TVL), joining the ranks of BlackRock’s BUIDL fund and Ondo Finance as the only real-world asset (RWA) platforms to surpass the milestone. Centrifuge CEO Bhaji Illuminati attributed the milestone to institutions moving from pilots to “real deployments,” alongside strong onchain allocator demand. “Markets need more than T-bills,” Illuminati told Cointelegraph, pointing to JAAA, an onchain version of Janus Henderson’s AAA-rated collateralized loan obligation (CLO) investment fund, as a natural next step for institutions seeking higher yields than risk-free rates. Read more