Tenbin’s mission is to create tokenized assets superior to their offchain equivalents by merging TradFi liquidity with DeFi composability, allowing onchain assets to trade, settle, and generate yield in ways once inaccessible to traditional and crypto markets. 

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2026 — , a next-generation tokenization protocol, announced a $7 million seed round led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Wintermute Ventures, FalconX, GSR, Nascent, Variant, Archetype, Bankless Ventures and more. Tenbin is building the next wave of tokenized asset infrastructure by making onchain assets faster, more liquid, and more functional than their offchain counterparts. The company’s mission is to accelerate global adoption of onchain capital markets and tokenized assets, starting with gold, FX, and commodities.

Tokenization has surged in recent years. Treasuries, credit, gold, and FX are now being tokenized onchain at a rapid pace. The global tokenized asset market (excluding stablecoins) was valued at $33 billion in 2025 and, per Deutsche Bank research, is projected to hit $3–4 trillion by 2030 (a 150%+ compound annual growth rate). Institutional allocators are expected to put 7–9% of their portfolios into tokenized assets by 2027.

Yet, most tokenized assets are structurally weaker than their offchain equivalents, with limited utility and scalability. Today’s tokenization models wrap assets without rebuilding the market infrastructure that gives these assets their purpose. As a result, tokenized gold, FX, and commodities often trade with thin liquidity, slow settlement times, and onchain price inconsistencies that reduce their value as collateral or store-of-value. Tenbin was launched to solve this.

Tenbin reverses this pattern by linking onchain assets directly to the global derivatives infrastructure where real liquidity resides—starting with CME futures markets. Tenbin’s architecture aligns pricing, liquidity, and yield with the real-world markets underlying each asset. This design lets Tenbin’s tokenized assets inherit deep real-world liquidity onchain while unlocking yield from both institutional carry and DeFi. The result is a new class of institutional-grade, yield-generating tokenized assets that remain fully liquid and composable across the onchain ecosystem.

“Tokenization only works if onchain assets become more useful than their offchain equivalents. Simply wrapping gold or FX onchain without rebuilding the underlying market structure creates assets that are slower, less liquid, and harder to use. Tenbin is the solution built to fix this broken system,” said Yuki Yuminaga, Co-Founder & CEO of Tenbin Labs, who previously served as a research partner at Fenbushi and Head of Growth at Sorella. “Our goal is straightforward: to make tokenized assets trade more efficiently, settle quicker, and deliver utility that legacy offchain assets can’t match.”

Through a structured exposure mechanism and dual onchain/offchain collateral architecture, Tenbin enables:

• ≈30-second minting and redemption (≈3 Ethereum blocks)
• Zero mint/redemption fees under normal conditions
• Yield-bearing exposure sourced from institutional carry and onchain stablecoin yield
• Deep liquidity inherited from underlying TradFi markets
• Full composability across the DeFi ecosystem

“What impressed us about Tenbin is their approach. They’re not wrapping assets—they’re rebuilding the entire issuance and liquidity framework for onchain markets. We believe Tenbin will play a foundational role in the evolution of onchain capital markets,” said Will Nuelle, General Partner of Galaxy Ventures

Tenbin will debut its first asset—yield-bearing tokenized gold—in early 2026, via integrations with major market makers and prime brokers including Hidden Road, Ripple Prime, and additional partners to be announced.

Following the gold launch, Tenbin will expand its asset suite to include global FX currencies (BRL, MXN, JPY, etc.), commodities, metals, energy products, and more. 

About Tenbin Labs 

Tenbin is a tokenization protocol founded on a simple yet unwavering belief: tokenized assets should be better than the assets they represent—faster to redeem, easier to use, more composable, and capable of generating yield. By merging institutional derivatives infrastructure with transparent onchain collateral systems, Tenbin creates a new type of asset that is liquid, accessible, yield-bearing, and instantly redeemable. Tenbin is building the next foundation for the onchain financial system. For more information, please visit .

SOURCE Tenbin Labs