TradFi

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Ondo’s core mechanism is to map traditional financial assets, such as U.S. Treasuries and money market funds, into tradable on-chain tokens. After users subscribe with stablecoins or fiat currency, Ondo purchases the corresponding U.S. Treasury assets through a custody structure and issues yield bearing tokens such as USDY and OUSG. The interest generated by the underlying Treasuries is reflected in token net asset value growth or balance changes, enabling on-chain distribution of dollar based yield.

Gate is further advancing its multi-asset trading ecosystem with the official launch of TradFi CFD trading on the Gate App. Users can now access trading for traditional financial assets, including forex, gold, indices, commodities, and stocks. Leveraging USDx-based pricing and integration with the MT5 platform, Gate delivers a robust solution for cross-market price trading.

Gate is further enhancing its TradFi offerings with the official launch of CFD trading for traditional financial assets—including gold, forex, indices, commodities, and stocks. Leveraging USDx-based pricing, the MT5 platform, and a robust risk management framework, Gate delivers a streamlined, all-in-one solution for multi-asset price trading and effective risk hedging.

Gate TradFi Commodities Trading is a derivative-based trading system that enables users to use crypto assets as margin to speculate on global commodity prices through Contracts for Difference (CFDs), eliminating the need to hold the underlying assets directly. As multi-asset trading platforms evolve, this model has become widely adopted for bridging traditional financial markets and blockchain-based infrastructure, allowing users to access various asset classes within a single system.

Canton is a blockchain network designed for institutional finance. Through the Global Synchronizer, Daml smart contracts, and a shared synchronization mechanism, it enables data interoperability and atomic settlement between different financial systems. Unlike traditional cross chain bridges, Canton places greater emphasis on state synchronization and coordinated validation, helping reduce trust and security risks in cross system asset transfers.

Canton Network (CC) is a blockchain network built for institutional finance, designed to provide privacy protection, cross network interoperability, and atomic asset settlement. Unlike traditional public blockchains, Canton uses a “Sub Transaction Privacy” mechanism, which shares data only with transaction relevant participants. This allows on-chain collaboration to remain efficient while meeting financial compliance requirements.

KAIO, Ondo, and Centrifuge all bring real world assets, or RWAs, onto the blockchain, but they differ significantly in compliance level, asset structure, and user positioning. KAIO is institution focused and emphasizes compliance, Ondo offers standardized assets such as tokenized Treasuries, while Centrifuge leans more toward a DeFi native credit market.

KAIO’s technical architecture is a modular blockchain system centered on an AppChain, designed to support the compliant issuance, management, and cross chain circulation of real world assets, or RWAs. Through its compliance engine, tokenization engine, smart contracts, and oracle system, the architecture maps the lifecycle of traditional financial assets onto blockchain. Its cross chain mechanism enables interoperability across multichain ecosystems, allowing these assets to be used more broadly in DeFi.

KAIO uses smart contracts and a compliance framework to convert traditional fund assets into onchain tokens, covering the full process from asset issuance and investor access to subscription, redemption, and DeFi applications. This mechanism allows institutional grade assets to participate in the blockchain ecosystem with lower barriers and greater liquidity, while maintaining compliance and asset transparency.

KAIO is a protocol designed to tokenize traditional financial assets, such as fund shares, and bring them onto the blockchain. Through smart contracts and a compliance engine, it enables institutional grade assets to be issued, circulated, and managed within DeFi. As the RWA sector continues to grow, KAIO is becoming an important piece of infrastructure connecting traditional capital markets with onchain finance.

Pharos (PROS) uses a technical architecture that combines parallel execution with modular design to improve the throughput efficiency and scalability of on-chain financial applications. The parallel execution mechanism can process multiple transactions at the same time, significantly reducing network congestion and improving processing speed. The modular architecture separates the execution layer from functional modules, providing more flexible underlying support for RWA and institutional finance scenarios. Compared with traditional general purpose public blockchains, Pharos’ architecture is better suited to financial scenarios such as high frequency payments, asset settlement, and bringing real assets on-chain, providing the technical foundation for high performance RealFi infrastructure.

Pharos (PROS) is a high performance Layer1 blockchain network focused on real world assets, RWA, and institutional grade financial applications. It aims to provide underlying infrastructure for bringing real financial assets on-chain through a parallel execution architecture, modular design, and native compliance support. Unlike traditional general purpose public blockchains, Pharos places greater emphasis on high throughput, low latency, and financial grade network capabilities that meet institutional needs. Its goal is to become RealFi infrastructure that connects traditional financial assets with on-chain liquidity. As the RWA sector continues to expand, Pharos is attempting to build a next generation base network for the future of on-chain finance.

Pharos and Plume are both infrastructure projects focused on the real world asset, RWA, sector, but they follow different development paths. Pharos places greater emphasis on building the underlying RealFi network through a high performance Layer1 architecture, providing infrastructure support for asset issuance, payment settlement, and on-chain liquidity. Plume, on the other hand, focuses more on RWA asset issuance and ecosystem connectivity, creating an asset circulation gateway by integrating asset issuers and DeFi protocols. In simple terms, Pharos is centered on improving financial infrastructure performance, while Plume focuses on expanding RWA ecosystem collaboration. Together, they represent two different directions within RWA infrastructure: the infrastructure layer and the asset ecosystem layer.

Pharos (PROS) supports the on-chain adoption of real world assets, RWA, through a high performance Layer1 architecture and infrastructure optimized for financial use cases. With parallel execution, modular design, and scalable financial function modules, Pharos can meet the needs of asset issuance, transaction settlement, and institutional capital flows, helping real assets connect to the on-chain financial system more efficiently. Its core logic is to connect traditional assets with on-chain liquidity by building RealFi infrastructure, thereby providing a more stable and efficient underlying network for the RWA market.