Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo announced that the company is collaborating with Plume’s RWAfi chain and the Nest staking protocol to offer institutional-grade tokenized assets through Apollo, Hamilton Lane, VanEck, and BlackRock. Domingo made these remarks on the social media platform X.
“I am pleased to announce our partnership with Plume – RWAfi Chain and Nest to continue our journey of providing broad distribution and DeFi integration to institutional-grade tokenized assets,” said Domingo. “Thanks Chris Yin and Teddy for the partnership.”
Plume describes itself as a public blockchain compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), designed specifically for real-world assets. Its core protocol, Nest, ties real-world yields to on-chain rewards. In its launch announcement, Plume said that Securitize—supported by investors such as BlackRock and Morgan Stanley—will deploy tokenized funds and other institutional-grade assets into Nest vaults. This will connect what they describe as the “largest onchain RWA holder community” to the “most established tokenization platform.” Domingo thanked Plume and Nest leadership in his post, framing the collaboration as “institutional assets meet composable yield.”
According to Securitize, it has become a leading tokenization platform for major asset managers. Company materials indicate that it has tokenized more than $3–4 billion of assets, including BlackRock’s BUIDL tokenized money-market fund and vehicles for Apollo, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck. Securitize operates as a registered broker-dealer, digital transfer agent, fund administrator, and operator of a regulated alternative trading system in the U.S., allowing it to originate tokenized funds that can now flow into Plume’s Nest vaults.
Plume positions itself as a “full-stack RWA chain” focused on bridging institutional finance and decentralized finance (DeFi). It reports an ecosystem pipeline of approximately $5 billion in assets with over 200 partners. Third-party DeFi coverage notes about $150–160 million in total value locked before the Securitize integration. The design of Nest allows tokenized Treasuries, credit funds, and other RWAs to be used as collateral in composable DeFi strategies while maintaining risk controls such as licensed originators and third-party credit assessments.
Domingo is recognized for his role in bringing real-world assets on-chain. He founded Securitize in 2017 after holding senior innovation roles in telecom and venture capital. He also founded SPiCE VC, a tokenized venture fund. In June 2024, he testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee regarding the benefits of tokenization in capital markets. Under his leadership, Securitize has been named a 2025 Forbes Top 50 Fintech company and plans to go public on Nasdaq via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) merger valuing the firm at approximately $1.25 billion.
