Aave’s Horizon Marketplace, the DeFi protocol’s institutional-grade platform for real-world assets (RWA), is receiving a major boost as Securitize and VanEck bring their tokenized treasury fund, VBILL, to the platform.
The integration, powered by Chainlink’s Oracle NAVLink technology, represents another step forward in bringing traditional finance and decentralized finance (DeFi) together.
Since its launch in August, Horizon has quickly become the fastest growing venue for RWA in DeFi, surpassing $460 million in total market size, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. The platform’s goal is to meet institutional compliance standards while maintaining transparency and liquidity in on-chain finance.
VBILL, launched earlier this year by Securitize and VanEck, is the asset manager’s first tokenized fund.
Now, with VBILL added as eligible collateral, institutions can borrow stablecoins against their VBILL holdings. The integration into Aave Horizon is supported by Chainlink’s NAVLink and LlamaGuard NAV oracles, which provide verified, risk-adjusted net asset value (NAV) data to ensure tamper-proof pricing, the team claims.
Securitize also plans to integrate its Trusted Single Source Oracle (TSSO) system in the future, adding another layer of verification for on-chain fund valuation.
“VanEck’s VBILL integration with Aave and Chainlink expands access to one of the most trusted forms of on-chain collateral and demonstrates how regulated assets can now flow seamlessly through DeFi,” Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize, said in the press release.
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