HashKey Group, Asia's leading digital asset financial services group (hereinafter referred to as 'HashKey'), announced the completion of a strategic investment in fintech company Asseto Holdings Limited (hereinafter referred to as 'Asseto'). This cooperation marks that both parties will engage in deep collaboration in the field of RWA (real-world asset) tokenization, jointly building an efficient and scalable on-chain asset infrastructure, promoting the development of stablecoin ecosystems, and the integration of traditional finance with decentralized economies to jointly promote the landing and scaled development of digital asset infrastructure.
This cooperation is not only a strategic investment but also a comprehensive collaboration between Asseto and HashKey in the RWA field. Both parties will rely on their respective advantageous resources to build an efficient and scalable on-chain asset platform, bridging traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), and promoting industry compliance, standardization, and institutionalization.
A major highlight of this cooperation is that Asseto's institutional-level RWA issuance capabilities will be deeply integrated with HashKey's self-developed high-performance Layer 2 blockchain platform, HashKey Chain. Both parties will collaboratively develop end-to-end technical solutions to support on-chain issuance, settlement, and circulation of various financial assets including cash management, funds, and bonds, ensuring efficient flow and traceability of assets between 'off-chain and on-chain'. Asseto will prioritize the native deployment of its high-quality RWA products within the HashKey Chain ecosystem, and in the future, users are expected to easily and efficiently access diversified on-chain assets through trading platforms provided by HashKey.
In this strategic cooperation, HashKey Chain participates in construction as an underlying infrastructure and also takes on the role of technical guidance and ecological coordination for the entire process of RWA asset on-chain. As a high-performance Layer 2 network designed for financial-grade assets, HashKey Chain provides Asseto with comprehensive standardized solutions in several key aspects such as smart contract standards and modular deployment—on-chain issuance requires high-specification channels and also needs a system and protocol layer that can accommodate complex asset structures, and HashKey Chain is the key builder of this role.
At the same time, HashKey Chain will also serve as one of the main chains for the deployment of Asseto's diversified RWA products, assisting projects to quickly enter the vast market of on-chain financial networks through ecological incentives, liquidity support, developer resources, and other support systems. The advancement of this cooperation not only demonstrates HashKey Chain's strong adaptability in real-world asset landing scenarios but also further establishes its systematic position in the construction of financial-grade RWA infrastructure standards.
This cooperation also extends to the fields of education and industry-university-research collaboration. By June 30, 2025, Asseto and HashKey will jointly become one of the first companies to sign a strategic cooperation memorandum (MOU) with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), promoting academic research, talent cultivation, and industry ecosystem development in areas such as blockchain finance, RWA standard-setting, and digital asset regulation, jointly contributing to Hong Kong's construction of a global leading digital financial innovation center.
In the future, Asseto and HashKey will continue to deepen cooperation in multiple dimensions such as industry standard building and cross-border pilots, promoting the healthy development of the global RWA market, accelerating the compliant landing of new types of assets such as stablecoins, tokenized funds, and on-chain bonds, and assisting the comprehensive transformation of traditional financial assets into the Web3 architecture.
This strategic investment is not only a high recognition of Asseto's technical strength, product capabilities, and market vision by HashKey, but also lays a solid foundation for both parties to build Asia's leading RWA tokenization ecosystem. By collaborating to build the underlying technology, exchanges, custody, research, and regulatory interaction mechanisms, both parties will work together to promote the standardization and scaling of RWA infrastructure, further unleashing the long-term potential of on-chain finance.
About Asseto
Asseto is a fintech company focused on RWA tokenization, committed to building a new generation on-chain asset platform. The company starts with cash management RWA products and continuously expands into funds, bonds, stocks, private credit, real estate, gold, and other alternative assets, creating a diversified and sustainable income model. Asseto adopts an institutional-level compliance technology framework, deeply integrating traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi), and has established a strategic cooperation network covering Hong Kong and Asia, including two companies that are about to submit applications for a stablecoin license in Hong Kong. The core team members come from top international financial institutions and Web3 projects, possessing rich experience in both TradFi and DeFi. With the rapid development of stablecoins and on-chain yield assets, and as products continue to be launched and ecosystems expanded, Asseto is steadily entering the core ranks of Web3 financial infrastructure construction in Asia. Asseto's total locked value (TVL) is expected to continue to grow, and it is expected to become an important participant in Asia's Web3 financial infrastructure.
About HashKey Group
HashKey Group is a leading digital asset financial services group in Asia with a global layout.
Since 2018, HashKey Group has built a global Web3 ecosystem covering Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Bermuda, and other locations within a regulatory framework of high compliance standards, which includes: Hong Kong's largest licensed virtual asset exchange HashKey Exchange, virtual asset exchange HashKey Global, holding
