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Story: ADI Chain Targets $30.9B in Real-World Asset Tokenization with Settlemint Partnership

By Jean-Luc Maracon

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What's Actually Getting Tokenized. The platform will focus on real estate and commodities first.

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Why Institutional Money Cares. Institutional investors have been sniffing around tokenized assets for a couple years now.

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Regulatory Fog Ahead. The announcement didn't mention regulators at all. That's probably deliberate.

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ADI Foundation wants to put real-world assets on blockchain. Big ones.

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The group said Tuesday it's teaming up with Settlemint to build out digital securities infrastructure on ADI Chain, targeting roughly $30.

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ADI Foundation and Settlemint announced the deal on May 13. They're building what they call a "tokenization rail" that converts ownership stakes in real-world assets into digital…

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The platform will focus on real estate and commodities first. Those two categories make up a huge chunk of the $30.9 billion figure the partnership's throwing around.

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Commodities work the same way. Gold, oil, agricultural products—all of it can theoretically live on-chain as tokens that represent ownership or a claim on the underlying asset.

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The partnership didn't say exactly which assets will go live first. No names, no addresses, no specifics on what's already lined up. That's pretty typical for these announcements.

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Institutional investors have been sniffing around tokenized assets for a couple years now. The appeal is obvious: blockchain makes settlement faster, cuts out intermediaries, and…

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ADI Chain's pitch is that it can handle the security requirements institutional players demand.

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Settlemint brings the integration piece. They've worked with enterprises trying to bolt blockchain onto existing systems without ripping out everything and starting from scratch.

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Smaller investors might get access too. That's the whole point of tokenization—lowering the barrier to entry.

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The announcement didn't mention regulators at all. That's probably deliberate. Tokenized securities sit in a weird legal zone where different countries have different rules, and…

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