Comprehensive Transformation of RWA: DigiFT Founder Henry Reveals the Strategic Leap in Tokenization of Real World Assets

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Source: ME

Recently, during Hong Kong Fintech Week, Hong Kong, as a global hub for RWA and digital asset regulatory innovation, is attracting top "players" from North America, Singapore, and the Asia-Pacific region. ME Group CEO Jessica and DigiFT Founder and Group CEO Henry engaged in an in-depth conversation. This dialogue not only reviewed DigiFT's breakthrough journey over the past four years but also revealed the strategic blueprint for the RWA track's leap from "0 to 1" to "10 to 100."

Singapore's Maiden Voyage: The World's First Licensed Real World Asset Decentralized Exchange (RWA On-Chain Exchange)

In 2020, as DeFi Summer swept the globe, Henry, with over 20 years of traditional finance background, keenly captured the potential of Web3 to reshape financial infrastructure and founded DigiFT. Notably, it is currently the only decentralized digital asset exchange (RWA On-Chain Exchange) operating in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) fintech regulatory sandbox.

Henry emphasized, "We are the world's first licensed real world asset decentralized exchange (RWA On-Chain Exchange) and currently the only one." This license not only serves as an official endorsement of the "self-custody + smart contract-driven + micro-branch deployment" technology architecture but also positions DigiFT as a compliant bridgehead for institutional-grade asset on-chain.

From Fixed Income to Equity: Robust Expansion of the Product Matrix

After four years of deep cultivation, DigiFT has completed multiple "0 to 1" milestones and is now accelerating the scaling replication from "1 to 2" and even "10 to 100." The product line started with the most easily accepted fixed income assets—U.S. Treasuries and money market funds (MMF)—and gradually expanded to equity assets such as Hong Kong and U.S. stocks. Henry revealed, "Last week we announced the tokenization of shares in Ocean Group Holdings Limited."

At the same time, collaborations with leading institutions such as UBS Asset Management, Invesco, DBS, and CMBI have also been launched. He joked, "Just as Amazon initially only sold books and later expanded into diversified categories, RWA tokenization similarly follows an evolutionary path from simple to complex and from single to diverse."

Full-Stack Infrastructure: One-Stop Empowerment for Asset On-Chain

DigiFT has built a full-stack modular infrastructure covering asset tokenization, distribution, trading, and secondary market applications, providing partners with end-to-end or single-point services. Henry stated, "The core we provide is a complete full-stack technology architecture, mainly including tokenization, distribution, trading, and application."

With dual licenses for brokerage and exchange, the DigiFT platform is continuously deepening the breadth of asset categories and the depth of individual categories, while also adding advanced features such as liquidity solutions and smart routing, truly achieving "faster and more agile" on-chain assets.

Borderless Technology, Global Clients

It is said that blockchain is inherently "borderless," and DigiFT thus targets global asset issuers and investors, operating only within a compliant framework. Henry pointed out, "From a licensing perspective, Hong Kong and Singapore, as global financial centers, along with the U.S. and Japan, are themselves intersections of global assets and funds, so we are targeting the global market." Currently, several Hong Kong and U.S. listed companies are actively seeking stock tokenization partnerships, and the demand from institutions for 24/7 real-time settlement and global liquidity on-chain is exploding.

Historic Migration from "Money on the Internet" to "Assets on the Chain"

Henry's assessment of the RWA track is incisive: this is not only an incremental market but also a comprehensive transformation of existing finance. The core of Web3 is "value transfer," where tokens can represent native crypto assets as well as traditional fund shares, stocks, or physical asset shares, bringing unprecedented combinability and settlement efficiency. He predicts, "The volume of RWA may only be a few hundred million now, but later everyone will estimate it in trillions; this process of conversion will take time."

The real tipping point lies in "money on-chain." Henry emphasized, "Once people have stablecoins, they will ask two questions: how to pay? how to invest? I can use stablecoins to invest." Once funds are fully tokenized, whether stablecoins or central bank digital currencies, users will naturally push for all assets to be on-chain. He likened it to the wave of "money on the internet" 25 years ago, today marking the beginning of a grand era of "assets on the chain."