Nomura's Laser Digital just plowed several million dollars into ZIGChain's push to build tokenized private credit products for institutional clients. The Japanese banking giant isn't just investing in the $ZIG token either. Laser Digital is taking the wheel on structuring and risk oversight for the entire pipeline of onchain lending deals.
This matters because one of Asia's oldest financial powerhouses is now openly betting that private credit, not just speculation, is where blockchain makes real money. ZIGChain set a target of at least $100 million locked in these products, with a starting focus on the Gulf region and Sharia-compliant offerings.
Laser Digital brings serious infrastructure to the table. The subsidiary has held regulatory approvals in Dubai and Abu Dhabi since it launched in 2022, and just landed conditional approval for a US national trust bank license in May. That opens doors to Standard Chartered and Apex Group's distribution networks, giving ZIGChain a shortcut into institutional pipelines that usually take startups years to build.
ZIGChain itself is no overnight project. It evolved from Zignaly, a social trading platform from 2018 that gradually shifted from copy-trading into real-world asset tokenization on its own Layer 1 blockchain. The $ZIG token trades around $0.04 with a market cap between $56 million and $59 million, circulating supply at roughly 1.41 billion tokens.
The broader backdrop here is straightforward. Tokenized real-world assets now sit above $30 billion in value, and private credit is becoming the main engine pulling institutional money into blockchain finance. Loan origination, SME financing, invoice factoring, stablecoin infrastructure, these are all things banks actually use, not speculation.
This article is informational only and should not be considered financial advice. Cryptocurrency and tokenized assets carry significant risk.
