Securitize has signed a memorandum of understanding with KB Securities and the Optimism Foundation to explore tokenized securities for institutional investors in South Korea. The partnership brings together KB Securities’ capital-markets and distribution capabilities, Securitize’s regulated tokenization infrastructure and Optimism’s blockchain technology.
The initial plan is to develop a tokenized money market fund and a fund based on a flagship KB Asset Management strategy. The companies are also looking at eventually expanding into stocks, American depositary receipts, corporate bonds and Korean government bonds.
We signed an MOU with KB Securities and @Optimism to explore tokenized securities for institutional investors in Korea.
This combines KB Securities’ distribution and capital-markets capabilities, our regulated tokenization infrastructure, and Optimism’s blockchain technology. pic.twitter.com/zkUIxwYmVm
— Securitize (@Securitize) September 23, 2026
The agreement is focused on institutional investors rather than retail users. KB Securities is expected to use its existing underwriting, issuance and distribution infrastructure to support the planned products and reach professional investors in the Korean market.
Securitize will provide the technology needed to issue and manage tokenized financial assets. Optimism, meanwhile, will contribute its blockchain infrastructure to the project.
The first two products provide a relatively defined starting point for the collaboration. A money market fund could give institutional investors an on-chain version of a familiar investment product, while the fund linked to a KB Asset Management strategy would bring an existing investment approach into a tokenized structure.
The companies have indicated that the partnership could expand as South Korea’s regulatory framework for digital assets develops. Potential future products include tokenized equities, American depositary receipts, corporate bonds and Korean government bonds.
Source: securitize.io
The agreement comes as South Korea prepares for the first phase of its regulatory framework for tokenized securities. That framework is scheduled to take effect on February 4, 2027, alongside amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act that would recognise distributed ledgers as valid securities registers.
Other financial institutions in South Korea are also developing infrastructure ahead of the new framework. On September 7, Hanwha Investment & Securities completed a tokenized-securities platform supporting both Avalanche and Hyperledger Besu. The platform was developed with blockchain technology company FairSquare Lab and is designed to work across multiple distributed-ledger networks.
Securitize has also been active in other markets. On September 3, the company signed a separate memorandum of understanding with Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority. That agreement focused on technical and regulatory cooperation around digital-asset infrastructure and tokenized financial markets in Dubai.
The Korean partnership is therefore part of a broader move by financial institutions and technology companies to bring traditional investment products onto blockchain networks.
For now, the agreement remains a memorandum of understanding rather than a commercial launch. The products, distribution arrangements and wider range of tokenized securities will remain subject to the applicable regulatory requirements in South Korea.
The immediate focus is on building the infrastructure and testing how institutional investment products can be issued and distributed in tokenized form. If the framework develops as planned, the partnership could eventually cover a much wider range of securities.
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