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DigiFT Raises $25 Million Led by SBI Holdings to Expand Real-World Asset Tokenisation Platform
DigiFT, a Singapore-licensed exchange for institutional-grade tokenised real-world assets (RWAs), has raised $25 million to date following the completion of a strategic funding round led by SBI Holdings.
The round included participation from institutional investors including Mirana Ventures, Offchain Labs (Arbitrum), Yunqi Partners, Polygon Labs, and founders and senior leaders from global technology and financial firms.
SBI Holdings is Japan's largest financial group with early investments in companies including Ripple and R3. The conglomerate operates across securities, banking, asset management, and crypto infrastructure sectors.
"DigiFT has the regulatory discipline, product maturity, and focus on real onchain utility to lead the convergence of traditional finance and Web3," said Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative Director, Chairman, President & CEO, SBI Holdings. "What sets them apart is their focus on enabling real onchain utility for institutional-grade assets—going beyond tokenisation to unlock collateral use cases, embedded yield, and secondary market liquidity. This pragmatic approach to infrastructure aligns with the needs of institutional investors, and we're proud to support their growth across Asia and globally."
The capital will support DigiFT's expansion as an RWA infrastructure provider, bridging traditional asset management and on-chain finance through compliant, tokenised investment products. As a licensed exchange, DigiFT facilitates trading and distribution of institutional-grade RWAs whilst enhancing secondary market liquidity and on-chain utility.
The funding will accelerate product diversification across tokenised investment strategies spanning equities, fixed income, alternatives, and digital assets. DigiFT will also develop new on-chain use cases for tokenised RWAs to unlock broader utility across digital finance ecosystems and drive greater interoperability through smart contract-based infrastructure.
Henry Zhang, Founder & Group CEO of DigiFT
"This raise validates the institutional momentum behind tokenised finance—and DigiFT's unique role in driving it forward," said Henry Zhang, Founder & Group CEO of DigiFT. "We're honoured to be backed by both leading TradFi players and top-tier Web3 investors. Together, we're building an open, interoperable capital markets infrastructure for the on-chain economy."
DigiFT enables traditional asset managers to reach new investor bases whilst empowering crypto-native users to access institutional-grade investment strategies across money markets, public mutual funds, US Treasuries, and private credit. Leading asset managers on the platform include Invesco, UBS Asset Management, CMB International Asset Management, and Wellington Management.
The platform has introduced diversified strategies including the Peakwater Volatility Alpha Fund token (pEAK), described as the first institutional-grade tokenised volatility strategy targeting cross-asset volatility returns across traditional and alternative markets.
Beyond tokenisation, DigiFT has enabled new on-chain utility for institutional-grade RWAs, making them eligible as high-grade collateral on digital asset exchanges for active trading and embedding RWA yield directly within payment cards to bring on-chain returns into everyday transactions.
DigiFT was recently granted Type 1 and Type 4 licences by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), making it the first regulated platform for institutional-grade, tokenised RWAs to be licensed by both the SFC and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
