Uniform Labs has launched its flagship institutional liquidity layer for tokenised financial markets, Multiliquid. It enables instant conversion between stablecoins and tokenised Treasuries.
Uniform Labs is a blockchain infrastructure company founded by Standard Chartered, UniCredit, and Allica Bank veterans and digital banking executives.
The novel product, the press release says, allows instant conversion between blue-chip tokenised money market funds and stablecoins, available 24/7. Institutions can swap between stablecoins on the one hand and tokenised money market funds or other blue-chip real-world assets (RWAs) on the other in a single atomic transaction.
Therefore, the team says, the product does away with redemption delays and illiquidity “that have made tokenized assets incompatible with institutional treasury operations.” Portfolios can “move at blockchain speed without waiting on issuer redemption cycles.”
Multiliquid supports tokenised money market funds, private credit, private equity, real estate, and other RWAs.
Moreover, the protocol is available on Ethereum. Solana deployment is coming soon, per the announcement.
Supported stablecoins include USDC and USDT, with more assets to come.
Also, it supports tokenised Treasury assets issued or managed by Wellington Management and other asset managers.
This enables constant and instant liquidity, so that “holders can access instant liquidity anytime,” the team says.
Finally, use cases include automated stablecoin sweeps, on-chain repos, instant RWA redemptions, on-chain treasury management, and collateral optimization for exchanges and trading platforms looking to generate yield on stablecoin balances.
Source: MultiliquidMaking Non-Treasury Assets Structurally Liquid
Uniform Labs argues that there are hundreds of billions of dollars in stablecoins that are unable to earn yield directly.
Therefore, institutions need a compliant method to pair regulated, yield-bearing assets with the 24/7 liquidity of stablecoins.
With Multiliquid, says the team, stablecoins remain “pure payment instruments.” Yield comes from tokenised money market funds and other regulated RWAs connected via Multiliquid’s swap layer.
Moreover, the company argues, the tokenized RWA market has jumped to more than $35 billion, yet non-Treasury assets remain structurally illiquid. This includes private credit, private equity, real estate, and commodities.
Source: Multiliquid“The tokenisation thesis only works if these assets are actually liquid,” said Uniform Labs CEO Will Beeson, ex-co-founder of Standard Chartered’s tokenised asset platform. Most RWAs are “just poorly wrapped versions of the same old assets,” he said.
“There’s essentially zero secondary liquidity for most tokenised assets, whether money market or private credit funds, with investors largely forced to wait for issuer-controlled redemption windows.” Multiliquid is a liquidity layer that enables “onchain capital markets [to] actually function in real time,” Beeson says.
According to Mark Garabedian, Director of Digital Assets and Tokenisation Strategy at Wellington Management, “for large asset owners, tokenisation only becomes compelling when it fits cleanly into existing liquidity and treasury workflows. Infrastructure that can reconcile regulated funds with always-on stablecoin rails is an important part of making tokenised portfolios practical at scale.”
Angelo D’Alessandro, COO of Uniform Labs and former CEO of UniCredit’s Buddybank, added that “for decades, institutional finance accepted that yield and liquidity don’t coexist. That was never a law of nature – just a limitation of the pipes.” Multiliquid, he argues, is new pipes that run finance at internet speed.
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