Animoca Brands has entered a strategic partnership with Provenance Blockchain Labs to develop NUVA, a chain-agnostic vault marketplace that will connect issuers of real-world assets with institutional and retail investors. The platform will launch with access to an existing pool of about US$15.7 billion in tokenised assets, including products such as stable-coin-denominated securities and home-equity lines of credit recorded on Provenance’s blockchain. The companies said NUVA is designed to simplify due-diligence and compliance for asset issuers while widening distribution to investors who want on-chain exposure to traditional financial instruments. The move underscores growing interest in bringing regulated, yield-bearing assets onto public blockchains as tighter capital markets drive demand for alternative sources of liquidity. Separately, the Plasma Foundation announced a collaboration with decentralised-lending protocol Aave to create what it called the first institutional fund dedicated to on-chain finance. The two initiatives, unveiled on the same day, add momentum to an emerging effort by crypto firms to bridge traditional finance and decentralised infrastructures.