Startale Group, a crypto infrastructure company from Singapore, and SBI Holdings, a financial group from Japan have teamed up to launch a new onchain trading platform. The platform will focus on tokenized stocks and real-world assets (RWAs).
The duo said in a statement on Friday that this partnership positions the alliance at the forefront of the global tokenized stock revolution, capitalizing on the explosive momentum created by Robinhood’s recent launch of tokenized stocks and major crypto exchanges like Kraken, Bybit, and Gemini expanding their tokenized stock offerings.
The joint venture is targeting the huge $18.9 trillion tokenized asset market expected by 2033, aiming to build a global, institutional-grade onchain trading system.
This partnership comes as 2025 is being called the “year of institutional adoption in crypto,” with DeFi playing a big role in changing traditional finance.
SBI Holdings and Startale plan to push this further by offering true 24/7 onchain trading and cross-border settlement with lower fees.
The venture has also secured milestone-based funding to support development and expansion, ensuring careful execution and steady growth toward its commercial launch.
“The whole financial market is moving from an offchain environment to on-chain,
“We believe that the tokenized stock revolution is the largest opportunity and onchain trading is the next frontier,” said Sota Watanabe, Founder of Startale Group.
While traditional markets remain closed 70 percent of the time, he noted the firm’s platform will enable continuous, programmable trading of tokenized stocks, including US and Japanese native stocks, with near-instant settlement capabilities.
“This isn’t just about digitizing existing assets, it’s about creating entirely new financial primitives that merge the trust of traditional equities with the composability and accessibility of DeFi,” he added.
According to the statement, the platform will leverage cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure aiming to offer 24/7 tokenized stock and other financial assets trading; near-instant cross-border settlements; fractional ownership; composable financial products.
The eventual aim is to create a tokenized world where all the value can flow freely, said the statement.
“A structural transformation is currently underway in global financial markets, characterized by the on-chaining of RWAs—in other words, the tokenization of real-world assets,
“As tokenized RWAs enable 24/7 real-time settlement and achieve unprecedented liquidity and capital efficiency, the convergence of traditional finance and DeFi will likely accelerate,” commented Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of SBI holdings.
He predicted that this movement will eventually lead to the digitalization of capital markets themselves, including exchanges.
“By capturing this trend and by leveraging our corporate ecosystem together with Startale’s blockchain technology, we have great expectations for creating a new decentralized platform,
“This platform will be highly interoperable, always open, accessible to anyone, and designed to meet the needs of users worldwide in the global market,” he added.
The joint venture also aims to fix major problems seen in traditional tokenized stock platforms.
Unlike current platforms that work only during certain hours or in limited regions, this new system will offer 24/7 global access with top-level security and compliance making it easy and safe for users everywhere.
Built on Startale’s reliable blockchain technology and SBI Group’s strong finance and digital network, the platform will include features like smart account management, secure institutional custody, simple onboarding for retail users, and real-time compliance checks.
This business alliance is structured around the establishment and operation of two specialized joint venture companies with clear mandates: one entity will be responsible for core technology development, while the other will handle the planning and execution of brand and business expansion strategies, said the statement.
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