Uniswap (UNI), one of the largest and oldest decentralized exchanges, is further investing in tokenized assets, introducing functionality designed to allow regulated securities to be traded on the platform without sacrificing compliance requirements.
Decentralized exchange developer Uniswap Labs is rolling out “permissioned pools” on Thursday, infrastructure that allows issuers of tokenized funds, stocks and other regulated assets to restrict trading to approved investors while still using the protocol’s automated market maker.
This “gives issuers a flexible way to enforce their own compliance rules without creating a separate business infrastructure,” Ken Ng, ecosystem manager at Uniswap Labs, told CoinDesk.
“The next generation of value is coming to the chain, and it’s trading on Uniswap,” he said.
Launch partners include tokenization companies Securitize (SECZ) and Superstate, as well as European digital securities platform Dowgo, all of which plan to use the framework for regulated on-chain assets.
Tokenization trend enters DeFi
The move is part of a broader shift within decentralized finance (DeFi), where protocols originally designed for open, permissionless trading and lending are increasingly adapting to the needs of financial institutions bringing traditional, regulated real-world assets (RWA) onto the blockchain rails. One example is Aave, the largest decentralized lender, which rolled out Horizon, an institutional lending venue for tokenized assets.
