Assetera
In September 2024 it opened what it called Europe's first regulated blockchain-based secondary market for tokenized securities, settling on Polygon; since 1 August 2025 venues holding no MiFID licence of their own have been able to list tokenized stocks and bonds through its API.
The profile
Vienna investment firm, registered as Assetera GmbH (FN 448308b), authorised by Austria's Financial Market Authority on 28 February 2022 within the regulator's sandbox to give investment advice, manage portfolios and receive and transmit orders, with advice and discretionary management confined to professional clients, and notified across 30 EU and EEA states. It opened what it described in September 2024 as Europe's first regulated blockchain-based secondary market for tokenized securities and other real-world assets, settling trades on Polygon against stablecoins, and on 1 August 2025 opened that market to other exchanges through a MiFID II-compliant API, so a venue without its own licence can list tokenized stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds. It carries instruments from Backed and Dinari, distributes abrdn's tokenized funds in the EU under an arrangement with Archax announced in October 2024, and is named by Realiz among its counterparties.
Products and services
- Assetera secondary market
- Venue for buying and selling tokenized securities and fund units, settling on Polygon against stablecoins and supporting custodial, non-custodial and bank-managed wallets.
- MiFID II-compliant API
- Interface opened on 1 August 2025 through which exchanges without their own licence can offer tokenized stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds across 30 EU and EEA states.
- Issuance and distribution
- Tokenization and placement of securities for issuers, with more than 250 security tokens in the platform's supply engine.
No development naming Assetera has yet been filed against a primary source. The register entry stands so the institution, its jurisdiction and its products are on the record.
Official
Sources
- FMA Austria: Announcement about the granting of a licence as an investment firm within the scope of the Regulatory Sandbox: ASSETERA GmbH
- Assetera
- Cointelegraph: Assetera launches secondary tokenized RWA market on Polygon
- CoinDesk: Assetera opens tokenized securities market to crypto exchanges with MiFID-compliant API