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Sofia, Bulgaria: REAL, the institutional infrastructure for compliant real-world asset tokenization, today announced a new confidential execution layer to support regulated financial institutions operating onchain. The layer, built using ZKsync's Prividium technology, runs in parallel to REAL's public network giving institutions privacy controls over positions, allocations, and counterparty data, without sacrificing public settlement and liquidity. Because the confidential layer settles to Ethereum, institutions get both privacy and connectivity to the largest onchain capital market, instead of living in a silo. It is privacy without compromising on compliance, liquidity, and distribution.
The launch removes one of the last structural barriers to institutional participation in tokenized markets. Public blockchain rails have delivered global access, instant settlement, and composability. But regulated institutions can't run their business on infrastructure that exposes every position, treasury strategy, and counterparty relationship. Until now, that gap has kept much of the institutional RWA opportunity out of reach for the institutions best positioned to scale it.
"The next wave of tokenization won't be defined by issuance. It will be defined by whether institutions can actually use these systems the way real finance works," said [Name, Title at REAL]. "Institutions shouldn't have to choose between public liquidity and operational privacy. We're building infrastructure that delivers both."
The confidential layer supports core institutional workflows where privacy is non-negotiable: wealth and asset management with protected portfolio activity, balance sheet operations, tokenized deposit models, and selective disclosure to auditors, compliance teams, and regulators when required. Institutions get blockchain-native settlement, distribution, and liquidity, without forcing sensitive activity into a fully public environment.
The launch extends REAL's vision of supporting the full lifecycle of tokenized real-world assets (issuance, risk assessment, insurance, trading, and institutional execution) under a single compliance-aware architecture.
"This is about giving institutions a practical path into onchain finance," added [Name, Title at REAL]. "Real-world assets onchain require infrastructure that reflects how regulated finance actually operates. That's what we're building."
REAL is the institutional blockchain infrastructure for compliant real-world asset tokenization and risk-managed capital flows. Built on Cosmos Tendermint, REAL supports the full lifecycle of onchain financial products (issuance, risk assessment, compliance, liquidity, insurance, and trading). Its dual-validator architecture involves both technical and business validators (tokenizers, risk scorers, insurers, credit agencies), creating a foundation built for institutional trust. Learn more at real.finance.
Prividium is ZKsync's privacy infrastructure for institutional finance, enabling regulated entities to operate onchain with configurable confidentiality, selective disclosure, and settlement on Ethereum. Learn more at zksync.io.
