ZIGChain announced an integration with Ondo Finance, planning to bring tokenized US stocks and ETFs into its blockchain ecosystem. The products will initially launch in phases across select applications and partners before expanding coverage.
This collaboration further extends ZIGChain's RWA footprint to public market assets. Previously, the ecosystem had already integrated with Valdora Finance's liquidity RWA vault and Beehive's tokenized asset pipeline for private lending to SMEs.
The focus is on tokenized security distribution
According to both parties, the core of this collaboration is not to launch new investment instruments, but to move mature products from existing financial markets onto the blockchain. Ondo provides the infrastructure that can map publicly traded US stocks and ETFs into programmable blockchain assets.
Once integrated, users within the ZIGChain ecosystem will be able to access these assets on-chain. Both parties specifically mentioned that the initial focus will be on users in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and other overseas markets.
Both parties stated that this model aims to lower the intermediary and minimum investment thresholds in traditional finance, while providing a more transparent on-chain execution method.
Ondo continues to expand cross-chain distribution
One of Ondo Finance's key focuses in recent years has been tokenizing real-world assets and distributing them across more blockchain networks. Through Ondo Global Markets, non-US investors can gain economic exposure to US stocks and ETFs using on-chain tokens backed by the underlying assets.
Judging from this collaboration, Ondo's goal remains to expand the distribution channels for tokenized securities, while ZIGChain hopes to use this opportunity to supplement its supply of RWA assets in the public market.
- Asset Types: US Stocks and ETFs
- Deployment method: Initially, it will be rolled out in phases in select applications.
- Key regions: GCC area and other overseas markets
The launch will be carried out in phases.
The announcement indicates that the relevant products will not be fully released all at once, but will first be launched to some ecosystem applications and partners, and then gradually expanded to a wider range of ZIGChain users.
Both parties emphasized that this integration does not involve the issuance of new tokens, nor does it promise investment returns or profits. The underlying assets are issued by Ondo Global Markets (BVI) Limited, and ZIGChain does not hold the corresponding real-world underlying assets.
Against the backdrop of the current crypto industry's accelerated push to put traditional financial assets on-chain, such collaborations are becoming an important way for public chains and RWA platforms to expand their user base. For ZIGChain, integrating tokenized US stocks and ETFs also means that its ecosystem is beginning to expand the scope of on-chain assets from categories such as private lending to more standardized public market products.
