Stellar Development Foundation Makes Strategic Investment in Marketnode to Expand Institutional Tokenized Real-World Asset Adoption in Asia-Pacific
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Investment in Asia-Pacific’s trusted digital market infrastructure operator will support greater institutional connectivity and access to tokenized financial products on Stellar
LISBON, 29 OCTOBER 2026 — The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) today announced a strategic investment in Marketnode, Asia-Pacific’s trusted digital market infrastructure (DMI) operator backed by Euroclear, HSBC, SGX Group, and Temasek.
The investment will support Marketnode’s work to expand institutional access to tokenized real-world financial products on the Stellar network across Asia-Pacific—connecting asset managers, issuers, distributors, and eligible investors with a growing ecosystem of digital assets and financial institutions.
Marketnode provides institutional market infrastructure across funds, credit, and structured products—supporting the issuance, distribution, and servicing of tokenized assets, providing institutions with the infrastructure to bring products onchain and connect them with established distribution channels and investors.
The investment builds on existing initiatives between SDF and Marketnode to broaden institutional access to financial products on Stellar. Most recently, Marketnode announced that it would offer onchain access to select BNY Investments funds on the Stellar network. Marketnode also distributes tokenized investment products from regional and global asset managers including CGS International, Franklin Templeton, Maybank Asset Management, and WisdomTree that are available on the Stellar network.
Together, these initiatives position Marketnode within a growing institutional ecosystem on the Stellar network, which today includes global asset managers and financial institutions using the network for tokenized funds and other real-world assets, payments, and settlement.
For SDF, the investment reflects a continued focus on growing institutional adoption of the Stellar network in Asia-Pacific, as financial institutions across the region move digital asset initiatives from experimentation toward commercial deployment.
José Fernández da Ponte, President and Chief Growth Officer of Stellar Development Foundation, said: “Asia-Pacific is an important market for the continued growth of institutional activity on the Stellar network. Marketnode brings together deep connectivity across the region’s financial institutions with the infrastructure needed to issue, distribute, and service financial products onchain. Our investment will support Marketnode as it expands that connectivity and helps bring more institutional assets, products, and participants onto the Stellar network.”
Rehan Ahmed, CEO of Marketnode, said: The Stellar network offers highly resilient infrastructure and a growing institutional network to support the next phase of tokenized RWA adoption. Marketnode brings multi-asset capabilities across funds, structured products, and credit, and our work with SDF has already shown how we can connect these products and investors with onchain markets. This investment gives us an opportunity to deepen that work across Asia-Pacific with Stellar and our existing partners.”