Centrifuge, the leading tokenization and onchain asset management platform with more than $1.6B AUM, and LI.FI, the liquidity orchestration platform powering more than 1,000 integrations, are partnering to expand how tokenized assets are discovered, accessed, and used across onchain markets.

Tokenized assets may live onchain, but capital remains fragmented across different networks, assets, wallets, and applications. Centrifuge and LI.FI are addressing that fragmentation across three parts of the asset lifecycle: distribution, access, and liquidity.

Expanding distribution across the onchain economy

Tokenized assets can exist onchain without being easy to discover or access if every wallet, trading app, and fintech has to build a separate integration to support them.Centrifuge and LI.FI are addressing that by bringing deRWA into LI.FI’s routing and distribution infrastructure. deRWA assets will be discoverable through consumer-facing applications such as Jumper, giving users a direct path to access Centrifuge assets. The same infrastructure can make those assets easier to support across other wallets, trading applications, fintechs, and onchain products integrating LI.FI.

As LI.FI adds new applications, chains, and liquidity sources, that distribution infrastructure can expand with it. 

“The opportunity in tokenization goes well beyond bringing assets onchain. Assets need distribution, liquidity and infrastructure that allows them to move across the onchain markets. Together with LI.FI, we’re building that layer around Centrifuge assets, expanding where they can reach and how they can be used.”
– Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Centrifuge Labs

Providing access without the cross-chain complexity

Distribution only matters if users can actually reach the asset. Today, that can still mean arriving with the right token on the right chain.

Centrifuge and LI.FI remove that friction by connecting Centrifuge’s tokenized fund infrastructure with LI.FI’s orchestration layer. Users can start with supported assets they already hold, while LI.FI handles the swaps, bridging, and routing needed to reach the asset in the background.

This creates two practical ways to access Centrifuge assets through the Centrifuge interface, Jumper, and other LI.FI-powered applications:

1) Invest directly through a Centrifuge vault — Users who want to invest directly into an asset on Centrifuge can deposit into its vault without manually moving capital into the required deposit asset and blockchain first. Using LI.FI Composer, the necessary swaps, bridging, and vault deposit can be bundled into a single flow. The user chooses the Centrifuge product they want to invest in and the asset they want to start with, while LI.FI orchestrates the steps required to complete the deposit.

2) Get exposure through a transferable deRWA token — Users who want a freely transferable representation of a Centrifuge fund can acquire its corresponding deRWA token. Rather than first sourcing the correct asset on the correct blockchain, users can start with a supported asset they already hold. LI.FI handles the required swaps, bridging, and routing in the background to deliver the deRWA token to the user.

Bringing instant liquidity to deRWA

deRWA tokens may move on blockchain rails, but the financial assets they represent still follow traditional settlement cycles. A redemption can take a day or longer to complete, creating a mismatch with onchain markets that operate continuously and where users expect liquidity on demand.

Centrifuge and LI.FI are working together to bring instant liquidity to deRWA using LI.FI Intents. Instead of requiring users to wait for the underlying fund redemption to settle, market makers on LI.FI Intents can provide the desired asset upfront in exchange for the user’s deRWA tokens, while taking on the underlying redemption and settlement process in the background.

For users, that means being able to move out of a deRWA position immediately rather than waiting for the underlying redemption cycle to finish.

“For tokenized real-world assets to reach mainstream adoption onchain, they need to be accessible everywhere. Together, LI.FI and Centrifuge are expanding cross-chain access for tokenized assets. With LI.FI’s orchestration system and a distribution network of enterprises, we’re making RWAs easier to access and available wherever users already are.”

— Philipp Zentner, CEO and Co-Founder of LI.FI

About Centrifuge

Centrifuge is the leading tokenization and onchain asset management platform. Centrifuge bridges traditional and onchain capital markets, tokenizing high-quality institutional assets and integrating them deeply across DeFi. The platform powers onchain strategies for New York Life Investment Management, Apollo, Janus Henderson, and S&P Dow Jones Indices, with tokens live across leading DeFi protocols including Sky, Aave, and Morpho. Beyond infrastructure, Centrifuge advances the broader ecosystem through the Real-World Asset Summit, the Tokenized Vault Foundation, and the Tokenized Asset Coalition.

About LI.FI

LI.FI is the universal liquidity layer trusted by more than 1,000 enterprises to unlock unified market access to digital assets.

LI.FI reduces the complexity of building digital asset products by orchestrating liquidity across permissioned and permissionless venues, powering stablecoin and RWA flows across more than 60 chains through a single integration.

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