Ownera and LayerZero announced a partnership to connect their platforms to enable cross-chain solutions for institutional tokenization. The collaboration integrates LayerZero’s interoperability protocol – which “connects 160+ blockchains and has facilitated over $200 billion in value transfer since inception” – with Ownera’s Router and SuperApps Platform, live in production with financial institutions enabling “applications such as intraday repo, trading platforms, collateral mobility, aggregated payment solutions and CSD connectivity.”
This partnership connects the platform in the application layer with the platform in the network layer to “provide a solution for financial institutions, asset issuers, and application providers that look to strategically scale their tokenized products across business use cases, partners, and assets on all blockchains.”
As traditional finance and blockchain-native infrastructure converge, financial institutions and financial application developers face “a fundamental challenge: how to effectively deploy multiple use cases across trading partners while issuing and accessing assets on any blockchain – without building costly bilateral integrations for each use case and connection.”
The Ownera-LayerZero partnership now reportedly “solves this by combining the interoperability protocol with the institutional application layer that major banks trust for production deployment.”
The partnership launches with LayerZero SuperApps on the Ownera SuperApps Platform:
- LayerZero Cross-chain Asset Platform enables issuers to make assets available across all supported chains, instantly accessible on the Ownera platform—including applications for subscription, trading, collateral, repo, data, lending, payments, and custody.
- LayerZero Cross-chain Connector provides a utility integration that allows SuperApp developers to seamlessly access assets across 160+ blockchains without complex technical implementation.
The partnership addresses converging market realities: all assets will ultimately be tokenized, the market will “remain multi-chain, and every institution will deploy multiple use cases requiring interoperability across heterogeneous blockchain networks.”
Current approaches force institutions to “choose between limited blockchain coverage or building extensive integrations that are operationally intensive.”
The Ownera-LayerZero solution provides:
- Any Asset: Institutions can move any token or asset cross-chain using LayerZero to achieve unified supply and universal composability, optimizing capital efficiency across their entire operation.
- Any Blockchain: Institutions can distribute and source capital from customers on any of 160+ connected chains, maximizing market reach without infrastructure complexity.
- Security: Institutions can own and operate their entire cross-chain security stack with LayerZero’s configurable approach, maintaining the control and oversight that institutional compliance demands.
Both companies share a fundamental architectural principle: connecting financial institutions, applications and blockchains “directly with one another, without intermediary networks of unknown third parties.”
This direct-connection model allows for “application-specific security, robust control and shared accountability that regulated institutions require to safeguard customers.”
LayerZero currently powers interoperability “for 9 of the top 20 stablecoins and over 250 tokenized equity assets.”
Ownera’s FinP2P protocol reportedly orchestrates “over $5 billion in monthly trading volume and works with a network of 70+ financial institutions and dozens of application providers to deliver institutional-grade applications to market.”
The Ownera SuperApps Platform enables institutions and developers to build applications that operate “across any blockchain network, with deployments live at banks for intraday repo, collateral mobility, and distribution use cases.”
As noted in the update, Ownera is a UK fintech and global firm focused on digital asset interoperability, “connecting financial market infrastructure to enable financial institutions to trade, settle and manage tokenized assets across any blockchain, legacy ledger or network with security and compliance.”