Welcome to FinTech TV.
RWA finance is bringing off chain assets onto the blockchain.
Now while the tech is fast, the law is slow, and the biggest risks in RWA finance or regulatory changes as well as custodial risk.
Now, despite this, we are currently in what many call the tokenization of everything era.
The tokenized RWA market value could spike to.
Above 40 billion by the end of the year.
Well joining us live here at Consensus 2026 is Teddy Pornprinya, the co-founder and CBO of Plume Network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Thanks for having me today.
Well, a lot going on here at Consensus 2026.
So first and foremost, I do want to hear about how real world yield is the next growth step here.
Yeah, definitely.
You know, I think with everything that's going on in the web 3 landscape right now, there's been a huge flight to safety.
You know, a lot of our uh partners who originally were sourcing yield from different DI protocols amidst all the hacks um and exploits these last few months, they've all been asking us basically for institutional grade products to allow their users to continue farming these different.
Yield sources but also be paid out in stable coins essentially.
Um, and so for us, you know, uh, with our main nest product, we're actually able to tokenize different institutional type products, uh, for instance, Apollo, one of our Series A investors, they've tokenized their parts with us, Wisdom Tree, um, and a bunch of other folks, and we're able to actually permission to distribute these products to different users within the ecosystem.
So, Um, I think it's a, it's a pretty big push right now and, and like you said, hopefully tokenize Artaba, uh, markets go to 40 billion, uh, sometime soon, but the, the industry and the vertical itself is seriously on, on a high growth trajectory and we're just happy to, you know, have the infrastructure and the distribution tools to help people access these yields.
Yeah, that $40 billion mark, we don't have a crystal ball, so we don't know yet, but we'll wait and see.
But tell us a little bit about this flight to safety here.
Yeah, of course.
So, um, a lot of folks that we've been speaking with since we started the company around 2.5 years ago, you know, when we first brought ROA to their attention, they were never really super familiar with these concepts, and I think the issue is because a lot of the chain users, they're more crypto native, and a lot of these art of a traditional.
Concepts are from the real, you know, traditional finance world.
And so, what we've been doing over the last year and a half is building these different products that can one, help educate these folks, but then 2, also equip them with the right tools to invest into these assets.
So, like I mentioned earlier, Nest is just one of our core products that we've built on top of our plume chain that can essentially act as a distribute, uh, like distribution point for our issuers on the supply side to get the capital providers on the.
Demand side.
So what we've been doing is plugging in our core products into different centralized exchanges, wallets, custodians, communities, even neobanks to provide these users um with real yield sources.
And, you know, with everything that's been going on in, in the entire ecosystem, um, in terms of exploits and hacks, a lot of our friends and partners, unfortunately, who were affected, um, you know, they've also asked us for an alternative, right?
An alternative yield source.
And now, I mean, We've been pushing the whole messaging around Artabase for quite a bit now, but I think, you know, this is kind of the moment where a lot of people are starting to realize that investing into an institutional grade asset where, you know, stablecoins go to a smart contract, then flow to a custodian into the institutional issue itself, um, and then they pass the dividends and the yields back to the chain users is actually not too scary.
Um, and what we do differently is also have, uh, we all have a Very unique sense of um compliance features built into our product in the chain where we, you know, we can freeze and see certain assets we become whitelist, blacklist.
We even run AML on the sequencer level and on our vault level so we can really help screen for illicit finance and really provide for this safety, um.
You know, for, for users in general, yeah, and Teddy, you mentioned a key word there, and that is compliance.
So tell about, tell us about your compliance first focus at Blue.
Yeah, of course.
So, um, as a lot of people know, the chain itself is actually a permissionless chain because we did want to build for the Web 3 ecosystem, but what we realized is, um, with a lot of our institutional partners, you know, they would feel a lot more safe and even our users as well on the.
Side if we had some permission nature built into the chain as well.
So, um, you know, our regulatory team, um, and legal team comes from, you know, very, uh, you know, for example, our general counsel came from the SEC.
Our head of regulatory strategy has been in tokenization for almost a decade.
So we were able to build these different products where we can actually kind of enable this, uh, feeling of safety, um, around these different assets.
Um, and, you know, basically screen out the bad actors and, and bad, um, you know, situations that could potentially happen to these assets.
So, for example, I'm sure you've seen with these different diva hacks, you know, these different, uh, stablecoin providers, whether it's Tether or Circle, they're able to freeze their stablecoins and help, um, you know, uh, recover these assets.
And so with our Nest product and, and our chain overall, We actually have the entire stack to provide for this same level of safeness while also allowing users to use these assets within our ecosystem, the way they would want to in a normal, you know, web 3 world where you can collateralize an asset, borrow against it, deposit it into another asset, and so we've really created this more regulated. ecosystem that has, um, you know, a lot of tokenized institutional grade assets at the core that hasn't really been seen in the market before, which is why we've been getting a lot of traction on the distribution fees.
Well, thank you so much, Teddy, for joining us here on the ground at Consensus 2026.
I appreciate your time and thank you so much for sharing the story.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you.
