DigiFT: Product Launch

The leadership read

The GOLDX launch commits DigiFT, OCBC, and Lion Global to operating a regulated, on-chain financial product simultaneously across two public blockchains, Ethereum and Solana, against an underlying fund with custody, audit, and redemption obligations tied to physical gold. That is a materially different operating posture than running a private-chain pilot or a single-network proof of concept. The partnership structure distributes regulatory surface area across a licensed exchange (DigiFT), a major retail bank (OCBC), and an established fund manager (Lion Global), which means the coordination overhead for net asset value reporting, investor onboarding, and on-chain settlement is now a live production problem rather than a design question. The related signals in the last 90 days are thin on directly comparable tokenised-asset launches in Southeast Asia, which is itself the read: this is an early structural move in a corridor where institutional infrastructure is still being assembled. The more relevant comparables are outside this signal set. Franklin Templeton's on-chain money market fund on Stellar and Benji, and the Hong Kong SFC's tokenised fund approvals in late 2025, both of which established that multi-chain, regulated fund tokenisation at institutional grade requires a compliance architecture built before distribution, not after. Companies reaching this stage of institutional tokenisation in Asia face concentrated demand for leadership across three functional areas: regulatory operations capable of spanning MAS, fund-licensing, and blockchain disclosure requirements simultaneously; product and technical operations fluent in cross-chain settlement reconciliation; and institutional commercial leadership experienced in selling on-chain instruments to corporate treasuries and family offices rather than retail.