Ozean Partners with Polytrade to Bring $4.5 billion of RWAs to Ozean
Ozean, the blockchain platform for Real-World Asset (RWA) yield being launched by Clearpool, has partnered with Polytrade, a leading cross-asset RWA marketplace that will launch on Ozean’s mainnet.
Polytrade is one of the largest asset-agnostic RWA aggregators covering over 7,000 individual RWA assets from 70+ issuers across 9 asset categories. Polytrade’s marketplace acts as a central hub where users can find, trade, and leverage different RWAs and tokens based on their preferences. The marketplace lists RWA assets in 3 modes: discovery, primary, and secondary, based on how users can interact with assets.
Polytrade now hosts 95% of all public chain RWAs and is in the process of introducing utility tokens, gamification, and RWA-based predictions to its dApp.
“We’re delighted to bring Polytrade to Ozean and to be an integral part of growing the Ozean ecosystem. The Ozean team’s depth and experience in the sector set them apart as a premier RWA team. Making RWAs more accessible, connecting them across chains, and making RWAs flow across chains has been part of the Polytrade vision, and we are excited to work closely with Ozean,” said Piyush Gupta, CEO of Polytrade
“Polytrade is a key partner of Ozean’s journey. Not only does their team bring an impressive RWA marketplace to Ozean, but brings in an ecosystem for Ozean to leverage,” said Jakob Kronbichler, CEO & Co-founder of Clearpool.
Aggregating all RWAs
Tokenized RWAs have been growing steadily since 2020. Total tokenized assets have grown from $150M in 2020 to $8.4B in 2023 to $13.5B today. While categories such as private credit led the first growth cycle, tokenized treasuries and commodities, have been breakout sectors more recently. Alongside these leading categories, the number of asset categories has exploded over the past 2 years, with assets such as collectibles, creator royalties, IP, carbon credits, art, and more springing to life. Moreover, the number of issuers has risen from under 10 to more than 250 as of today.
As the number of assets rose, users needed a marketplace to discover, consider, trade, and leverage RWAs — all in one place. Today, Polytrade lists almost all public chain (95%) RWAs, working closely with 70+ RWA partners.
Anchoring and Launching RWAs on Ozean
Powered by the CPOOL token, Ozean is revolutionizing DeFi by seamlessly integrating RWAs in a compliant, user-friendly manner. Built as an Ethereum Layer 2 and part of the Optimism Superchain, Ozean includes an optional compliance layer, enhancing interoperability across permissioned protocols. This growing ecosystem enables RWAs to be traded, used as collateral, and integrated into DeFi with added functionality.
These features make a perfect fit for Polytrade, which shall aggregate all RWAs on Ozean in a single one-stop-shop and provide integrated tools inside the dApp for lending and DeFi.
Taking this a step further, Polytrade and Ozean will jointly work together to launch primary drops from amongst Polytrade’s 70+ RWAs partners, bringing more assets and breadth to the Ozean ecosystem.
Wavemaker Partner
Polytrade will also become a key partner and marketplace for WaveMaker, Ozean’s accelerator and end-to-end solution for tokenizing RWAs.
WaveMaker leverages a hand-picked alliance of service providers and institutions. It accelerates RWAs for issuers by streamlining the process with expert support and guidance, launching them on the Ozean blockchain, and boosting their growth through strategic investor connections and increased market visibility.
Polytrade shall serve as a marketing partner and marketplace for Wavemaker project launches.
Strategic Alliance
The partnership between Ozean and Polytrade is an important step in strengthening both project’s RWA ecosystems. Together, they’re setting a bold course for innovation and building a thriving future for RWAs as the sector grows.
