Securitize has initiated a strategic partnership with Plume to deploy tokenized institutional assets on Plume’s chain, aiming to broaden its global reach in real-world assets (RWA). The operation combines Securitize’s base of tokenized assets with Plume’s RWA-specialized infrastructure, seeking greater liquidity and fractional access to traditionally illiquid instruments.
The collaboration materializes the deployment of Securitize’s institutional assets on Plume’s Nest protocol, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 designed for RWA finance (RWAfi). RWAfi is defined as the use of blockchain infrastructures to issue, trade and manage real-world assets in tokenized form on public or specialized chains.
According to the announcement about the alliance, Securitize contributes more than $4 billion in tokenized assets and mentions a strategic $47 million round led by BlackRock. Plume launched its Genesis mainnet in June 2025 and, according to the network itself, incorporated approximately $150 million in on‑chain RWAs during that launch.
Plume’s architecture allows hosting assets with permissioned conditions at the application layer, a technical decision intended to reconcile institutional compliance requirements with DeFi’s native composability. The network declares a base of around 280,000 investors oriented to RWA, which, in theory, opens broader distribution channels for institutional issuers.
Among the assets already mentioned in the ecosystem are tokenized funds such as BlackRock’s BUIDL (with more than $1 billion in assets under management) and VanEck’s VBILL; tokenization turns these instruments into programmable digital elements that can be used as collateral, in lending or in staking. An operational example of the Nest protocol is the nTBILL token, which offers an approximate annualized yield of 5% derived from tokenized government bonds.
Securitize and Plume: details of the alliance and RWA technology
The alliance incorporates contributions from third parties: Solv Protocol committed $10 million in RWA vaults within Plume to boost yield products on Bitcoin. Additionally, Plume counts on institutional backing, including investors such as Apollo Global Management, according to the description of the agreement.
For Securitize, the integration complements its previous interoperability initiatives, including integrations that facilitate cross‑chain movement and exits to stablecoins for tokenized funds. The technical approach of placing permissioned assets at the application layer aims to “protect” compliance against fragmented regulatory frameworks, while enabling the programmable liquidity characteristic of DeFi.
Analysts cited in the documentation project an appreciation of the PLUME token in a range of $0.50–$5 for 2025, a market expectation that reflects the perceived infrastructure role of Plume in RWA. In competitive positioning terms, Securitize maintains a market share reported at around 25% of the RWA sector in August 2025 and announced plans to go public via a SPAC merger valued at $1.25 billion slated for October 2025; that milestone is relevant to gauge the firm’s scaling capacity in public markets.
The alliance between Securitize and Plume seeks to turn institutional assets into more liquid and globally accessible instruments, reconciling regulatory permissions with DeFi openness.
