Onigiri Capital and Centrifuge Launch RWA Bento with $600,000 Packages for Early-Stage Founders Building RWA Products

Onigiri Capital, a blockchain venture firm spun out of Saison Capital and backed by financial institutions across Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, together with Centrifuge, an open infrastructure layer connecting tokenized assets and DeFi, today announced the launch of RWA Bento — an exclusive program designed to accelerate the most ambitious RWA founders.

RWA Bento introduces a new model for early-stage builders: each selected founder receives $500,000 in capital from Onigiri Capital and $100,000 in infrastructure credits from Centrifuge, combining institutional venture funding with production-ready tokenization rails. Designed as a rolling, one-to-one partnership, RWA Bento is focused on founders who bring a distribution edge: unique access to markets, institutions, or investors that can accelerate adoption.

For Onigiri Capital, RWA Bento represents a deepening of its mission. While the firm invests broadly across stablecoins, tokenisation, payments, infrastructure, and DeFi, RWA Bento is dedicated entirely to real-world assets, a category where institutional adoption is accelerating at unprecedented speed. 

“Onigiri Capital was created to back blockchain founders at the intersection of finance and blockchain,” said Qin En Looi, Managing Partner, Onigiri Capital; Partner, Saison Capital. “With RWA Bento, we dedicate that platform fully to RWAs, the category where institutional adoption is happening fastest. Together with Centrifuge’s technology, we give founders the clearest path from idea to real adoption.”

Centrifuge brings the infrastructure that this stage of the RWA market demands. The protocol surpassed $1 billion in TVL in 2025 and is powering new institutional products, including Janus Henderson’s onchain AAA CLO strategy and Proof-of-Index infrastructure, bringing the S&P 500 index onchain for the first time ever, milestones that prove its capacity to support regulated, large-scale vehicles. 

Founders accepted into RWA Bento can deploy products onchain in weeks, not months, leveraging rails, compliance modules, and programmable fund architecture already trusted by global asset managers.

“RWA Bento is about focus and execution. Founders with the right edge in distribution can move fast when they have both funding and infrastructure ready from day one,” said Bhaji Illuminati, CEO of Centrifuge. “With RWA Bento, that’s exactly what they get.”

The onchain RWA market has passed $30 billion across public blockchains, with tokenized U.S. Treasuries alone reaching $7.3 billion this year as institutions adopt faster, programmable settlement rails. With applications opening today, RWA Bento stands out as one of the only programs built entirely around this momentum, combining institutional capital, proven infrastructure, and founders with the distribution to make RWAs mainstream. 

By uniting Asia’s financial networks with technology already trusted by global asset managers, Onigiri Capital and Centrifuge are setting the stage for the next wave of adoption in real-world assets.

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