ZIGChain Lands Nomura's Laser Digital as Investor and Risk Partner in a $100M Onchain Credit Push
Onchain finance has solved the easy half of its problem. Getting capital onto blockchains turned out to be straightforward once the wrappers were built, which is why tokenized real-world assets have grown from $6.6 billion to roughly $33.5 billion in sixteen months, with six asset categories now past the billion-dollar mark. The hard half is the other direction: finding assets worth funding, underwriting them to a standard a bank's risk committee would sign, and doing it in the markets where the yield actually lives. Capital has been abundant. Credibility has not, and nowhere is the shortage more visible than in emerging-market private credit, where the borrowers are real, the spreads are wide, and the institutional origination has barely existed.
That is the specific gap a Japanese banking group just paid to help close. ZIGChain, the Layer 1 blockchain built for regulated investment products, announced this morning that Laser...
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