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The NUVA marketplace, a venture co-created by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, launched on the Ethereum mainnet May 13, aiming to bridge more than $19 billion of tokenized real-world assets from Figure Technologies with the decentralized finance ecosystem.
"The launch of NUVA and its partnership with Figure are vital steps toward making global finance more efficient, transparent, and accessible," Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said in a statement. "The on-chain financial system already provides the infrastructure for openness, and now NUVA will help broaden the spectrum of capital available within the decentralized economy.”
The platform debuts with two flagship products built on ERC-20 standards for composability across DeFi on Ethereum. The first, nvYLDS, is a vault containing a U.S. SEC-registered instrument backed by short-term treasuries. The second, nvPRIME, provides tokenized exposure to Figure's $18.4 billion portfolio of prime home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), which currently offers a yield of over 7 percent. Users can deposit stablecoins into the vaults to receive these tokens, which can then be traded or used as collateral.
The launch is a significant event for the tokenization sector, which is estimated to have a total market value of approximately $32 billion, according to data from rwa.xyz. NUVA's strategy of using a public blockchain follows a wider industry trend, as major financial institutions recognize the limitations of private, permissioned networks. JP Morgan recently filed for a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, signaling a deliberate choice to use public infrastructure to achieve scale. "Cheaper, faster and safer will win," said Nuva Labs CEO Anthony Moro. "That’s how all financial assets eventually come onchain."
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