ZIGChain, a Layer 1 blockchain built to bring investment products onchain for institutions and everyday users, announced an integration with Ondo Finance to bring tokenized US stocks and ETFs to its ecosystem. The news was shared with Finbold on Monday, June 8, 2026.
Ondo Finance pioneered the tokenization of institutional-grade real-world assets. This integration extends onchain exposure to publicly traded US securities to a new generation of users across the GCC and beyond.
Deepening the real-world asset stack
The partnership deepens ZIGChain’s real-world asset stack. It complements other initiatives like Valdora Finance’s Liquid RWA Vaults and Beehive’s tokenized SME private credit pipeline. Access to Ondo-tokenized products through ZIGChain will roll out in phases. It begins at the end of May, with initial availability across selected ecosystem applications and partners. The rollout will expand over time.
How Ondo Global Markets works
Ondo Global Markets is the issuance and redemption platform behind the tokenized stocks and ETFs. Each token is fully backed by the corresponding stock or ETF. This allows investors outside the United States to gain economic exposure to publicly traded US securities by minting, transferring, and redeeming securities-backed tokens.
What the partners say
Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-Founder of ZIGChain, said: “The next phase of onchain finance is not about replicating access that institutions already have. It is about taking those instruments and making them genuinely accessible to a broader universe of participants, through transparent, scalable onchain infrastructure, without the minimums and intermediaries that have always stood in the way.” He added that Ondo has done the hard work of bringing these products onchain, and ZIGChain is the infrastructure through which that reaches a new generation of users.
Oya Celiktemur, EMEA Director at Ondo Finance, said: “Bringing tokenized US stocks and ETFs to new ecosystems and user bases is core to what the Ondo Global Markets platform enables. ZIGChain’s infrastructure gives investors across the GCC onchain exposure to the world’s most in-demand securities, with the execution quality and transparency that institutional markets demand.”
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