LayerZero partners with Centrifuge to advance institutional tokenization across its ecosystem

LayerZero and Centrifuge today announced a partnership that brings Centrifuge’s tokenization and onchain asset infrastructure into the LayerZero ecosystem, creating a stronger foundation for institutional financial products with multichain reach from day one.

LayerZero has become one of crypto’s most widely adopted interoperability protocols, enabling assets, messages, and applications to move across 165+ blockchains. Through its universal blockchain smart contact, OApp, issuers can expand assets cross-chain while maintaining a unified supply, opening the door to broader distribution without fragmenting liquidity across disconnected versions of the same asset.

Centrifuge complements that reach with infrastructure purpose-built for tokenized financial products. As more institutions move from pilots to live issuance, the need is no longer just to put assets onchain, but to launch products that can circulate across markets, reach users in multiple ecosystems, and integrate into onchain financial applications. Together, LayerZero and Centrifuge aim to make that next phase more practical for institutional issuers.

Through Centrifuge, issuers can launch a tokenized fund with the structure, controls, and asset infrastructure already in place, then extend access across 165 ecosystems without rebuilding the product for each new chain. That reduces distribution friction while preserving a unified product framework as reach expands.

For asset managers, that creates a clearer path to broader market access. Instead of approaching distribution one chain at a time, issuers can expand investor access more efficiently as demand emerges across ecosystems. For investors, it means access to the same tokenized product in the environments where they already hold capital and deploy strategies. For the market, it means tokenized funds are better positioned to scale without unnecessary fragmentation.

At launch, the first Centrifuge assets adopting LayerZero will include products such as JTRSY, JAAA, SPXA, and others, expanding access across major ecosystems, including Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Base, Optimism, and HyperEVM.

“We believe tokenization will be one of the defining shifts in global markets, and Centrifuge has already established itself as one of the teams leading that transition,” said Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero Labs. “What they’ve built for bringing institutional-grade assets onchain is exceptional. This partnership brings that proven asset infrastructure into the LayerZero ecosystem, where omnichain interoperability can expand the reach of those products across chains, markets, and onchain applications.”

“LayerZero has built the interoperability layer that gives assets real multichain reach,” said Bhaji Illuminati, CEO of Centrifuge Labs. “For institutions, tokenization becomes strategic when products are built to move beyond a single venue or chain and enter markets with real distribution from day one. That is exactly what Centrifuge is built to support: bringing financial products onchain in a form that can scale across ecosystems and become usable across onchain markets.”

The partnership also creates a strategic foundation for tokenized financial products in environments such as Zero. LayerZero’s newly announced chain, Zero, is designed for global markets and built to support the issuance, movement, transfer, and settlement of stablecoins and tokenized assets. In that context, Centrifuge provides the product infrastructure needed to help institutional assets enter those environments in a form built for real usage, not just representation.