SBI Holdings & Startale Unveil 24/7 On-Chain Trading for Tokenized Assets
- Keyword Financial
- Aug 22
- 3 min read
Introduction
Japanese financial group SBI Holdings and Singapore-based blockchain developer Startale announced a strategic joint venture to build an on‑chain trading platform for tokenized stocks and real‑world assets (RWAs). The platform is being designed for 24/7 global trading with near‑instant settlement, fractional ownership, institutional‑grade custody, account abstraction to simplify wallet management, and real‑time compliance monitoring — features SBI and Startale say will make tokenized equities accessible and interoperable worldwide (CryptoNews, CoinDesk).
The venture will operate through two specialized entities — one focused on core technology development and one on branding and business expansion — and aims to leverage Startale’s experience (including work on Soneium) together with SBI’s corporate ecosystem and scale. Coverage notes the project targets institutional requirements (security, compliance and custody) while enabling DeFi‑style composability, and cites market projections that place the tokenized‑asset opportunity in the trillions over the coming decade.
The announcement places SBI and Startale alongside other firms experimenting with tokenized equities (Robinhood, Kraken, Gemini) and signals broader institutional momentum in 2025 toward on‑chain finance. If successful, the platform could deliver greater liquidity, lower cross‑border settlement times and new financial primitives (fractional and composable products), but it will also face regulatory, custody and market‑structure challenges that remain to be resolved as tokenization moves from pilots to scale (CryptoNews, CoinDesk).
