Finance
What to know:
- ORQO Group makes a splash with $370 million in assets, combining the best of old-school finance and new-fangled crypto under one roof in Abu Dhabi.
- Soil, ORQO’s yield arm, sets out to support Ripple‘s RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger, offering private credit-backed on-chain yields. Sounds fancy, right?
- The latest sign that crypto is on a mission to shove real-world assets like private credit onto blockchain rails. Where else would you put them?
And so, ORQO Group, with its shiny new asset management portfolio worth a not-so-humble $370 million, has officially launched, stepping onto the scene with all the grace of a bull in a china shop. Their goal? To build a yield platform for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, naturally. No small dreams here.
Headquartered in the glittering jewel of the Middle East, Abu Dhabi, ORQO brings together four heavyweight entities from the worlds of traditional finance and digital assets. These include Mount TFI, the private debt maestro and licensed fund manager from Poland (because why not?), Monterra Capital, a hedge fund straight out of Malta, Nextrope, the blockchain engineers, and last but certainly not least, Soil-the DeFi protocol that complies with MiCA, the EU’s attempt at bringing order to the crypto wild west.
Already licensed in Poland and Malta, ORQO is now knocking on the doors of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority at Abu Dhabi Global Market, hoping to make its mark on the Middle East-an area where digital asset growth is apparently booming. Because who wouldn’t want to be part of that?
ORQO CEO, Nicholas Motz, told CoinDesk, “It’s an opportunity to become a global on-chain asset manager. We have all the pieces: the off-chain asset management, and on-chain, too.” And there it is-the dream of becoming the kingpin of both worlds. Take that, traditional finance!
ORQO’s vision is part of a much bigger picture that’s been quietly reshaping the crypto world. Traditional financial instruments-like private credit, U.S. Treasuries, or trade finance deals-are slowly but surely finding their new home on blockchain networks. This process, known as tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs), is where the action is. Data from rwa.xyz reveals that the RWA market has exploded to nearly $30 billion, a far cry from the $2 trillion private credit sector. Still, hold onto your hats: by 2033, tokenized RWAs are expected to soar to a jaw-dropping $18.9 trillion, according to a report by Ripple and BCG.
Enter Soil: ORQO’s ace in the hole, connecting their access to real-world assets with the seemingly boundless capital of the crypto world. It promises to provide some juicy returns on stablecoin deposits from tokenized private credit, real estate, and hedge fund strategies. If that doesn’t sound like a recipe for success, we don’t know what does.
And for the grand finale, ORQO plans to roll out several credit pools targeting Ripple’s RLUSD holders in the near future. Think institutional treasuries and protocol reserves getting cozy with some healthy yields on their holdings. A pretty sweet deal if you ask us.
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2025-09-16 14:09