Japan’s SBI Group Eyes Tokenised Asset Launch with Chainlink Partnership

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Group has inked a “strategic partnership” with Chainlink, a decentralised oracle network, to enable cross-chain tokenisation of real-world assets such as real estate and bonds.

Targeting the APAC Markets

The partnership, announced today (Monday), focuses on key use cases for financial institutions in Japan and the APAC region.

The official announcement further highlighted that Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) will be used to tokenise real-world assets. Additionally, CCIP and Chainlink SmartData will also be used to bring net asset value (NAV) data on-chain for tokenised funds.

“We have been building very advanced fund tokenisation and stablecoin DvP use cases with SBI for a while now, and I am excited to see our great work move towards a state of production usage at a large scale,” said Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink.

The partnership followed a survey by SBI’s digital asset arm covering over 50 financial institutions, which found that 76 per cent of participants intend to invest in tokenised securities due to lower costs and shorter settlement times.

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Another Giant Wants Tokenised Assets

Meanwhile, several other mainstream finance and crypto companies have recently entered the tokenised assets space. The most prominent name is Robinhood, which has launched the service in Europe and added tokenised stocks of popular unlisted companies like OpenAI and SpaceX.

Other companies entering the area are mostly crypto exchanges, including Kraken, Gemini, and Bybit. Coinbase is the only one seeking approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring tokenised stocks to its US-based users.

Interestingly, CMC Markets, known for being a contracts for differences (CFDs) broker, has also hinted at launching tokenised assets on its capital markets arm.

Read more: Tokenised Stocks Are Here, but Do They Really Bring Added Value over CFDs?

Now, the partnership of SBI with Chainlink has surfaced another major financial giant’s interest in this growing sector.

However, SBI's interest in merging blockchain with mainstream finance is well known. It has a strong partnership with Ripple and is preparing to distribute Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin. The conglomerate is also pushing for Japan’s first crypto ETFs, including a planned Bitcoin–XRP fund.