KB Securities Partners With Securitize and Optimism to Bring Traditional Assets Onchain in South Korea

South Korea’s KB Securities has partnered with Securitize and the Optimism Foundation to develop tokenized financial products for domestic institutional investors.

The phased rollout will begin with a tokenized money market fund on OP Mainnet, followed by an investment product based on a strategy managed by KB Asset Management. As South Korea’s regulatory framework develops, the partnership plans to expand into tokenized equities, ADRs, corporate debt and South Korean government bonds, while eventually providing Korean institutions access to established global tokenized funds. The initiative combines KB Securities’ capital-markets distribution, Securitize’s regulated tokenization infrastructure and Optimism’s Ethereum Layer-2 technology. It represents another significant step toward moving traditional real-world assets onto blockchain infrastructure, potentially improving settlement efficiency, compliance automation and access to onchain liquidity.

Clever Robot News Desk 24^th September 2026