Tokenize funds and distribute onchain with institutional-grade security
Tokenization is opening a powerful new distribution channel for asset managers. OpenZeppelin secures the token, compliance, and distribution layer beneath your funds so you can move faster with confidence.
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Tokenization opens new opportunities.
It demands the same security standard.
$15B+ in tokenized treasury and money market funds onchain
$600B+ projected tokenized fund AUM
$3.4B lost to onchain exploits in 2025
Sources: rwa.xyz (2026); BCG, Tokenized Funds: The Third Revolution in Asset Management Decoded (2024); Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report.
For asset managers, tokenization is fast becoming a distribution channel in its own right: a way to reach new investors, offer access around the clock, and put funds to work as collateral. The product itself does not change. A tokenized money market fund still holds short-term government debt, with every fiduciary and regulatory obligation intact. What is new is the infrastructure carrying it: the token standing in for each share, the compliance executing in code, and the chains and venues the fund now travels across. Capturing the opportunity means holding that infrastructure to the same standard as the fund itself.
The token standard, the eligibility and transfer-restriction model, upgrade and admin-key design, and how the onchain record reconciles with your transfer agent are all set before the first share is issued. They decide whether the product is defensible, and they are hardest to change once investors hold the token.
Standing up token, compliance, and servicing logic in-house is slow and error-prone, and reaching issuance on patterns that have not been proven puts both your launch timeline and investor assets at risk. Asset managers can afford to compromise on neither.
Exposure does not stop at the share token. It extends to the oracles that publish your NAV, the bridges that move shares between chains, and the keys that authorize the creation and redemption of shares. Auditing the contract alone leaves most of the surface uncovered.
A fund is a long-lived product, and the chains, bridges, and venues it depends on keep changing after launch. The assurance you had at issuance says little about your exposure once the token is trading, lent, and posted as collateral across the market.
Security for every stage of an onchain fund
From the share you issue to the venues where it trades and the desks that accept it as collateral, here is the risk your fund carries onchain and how OpenZeppelin removes it.
Fund Tokenization & Issuance
Issue tokenized funds across asset classes on proven standards.
We secure the token and share-class logic behind the funds you bring onchain, whether money market, treasury, fixed income, equity, or private credit: creation and redemption controls, supply integrity, and the subscription and accounting logic that has to match your official record exactly. All 10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds by market cap are built on OpenZeppelin Contracts, the same standard we bring to your issuance, and our pre-audited reference implementations get your team to market faster on foundations that are already secure.
Investor Eligibility & Compliance
Make eligibility, transfer restrictions, and sanctions execute in code
A regulated fund onchain only holds up if the rules governing who can hold and move it run automatically, on every chain. We review the allowlist, transfer-restriction, freeze, and forced-transfer logic that enforce investor eligibility, KYC, and sanctions at the token level, so your compliance obligations hold wherever the fund travels, in line with frameworks like MiCA and DORA.
Distribution & Multichain Reach
Reach investors on every chain without fragmenting your control
Distribution is why you tokenize, and each new chain, bridge, wallet, and platform widens the surface you have to defend. We assess the cross-chain issuance and messaging, the bridge dependencies, and the institutional and self-custody integrations behind your reach, so total supply and ownership stay reconciled no matter how many networks the fund lives on.
Liquidity, Collateral & Secondary Markets
Let your funds trade and post as collateral, safely
A tokenized fund grows more valuable when it can trade around the clock and serve as collateral, but that means your token now interacts with venues, lending markets, and protocols you do not control. We model how the fund behaves under redemption pressure, liquidation, and composability, and assess the integrations that expose it, so utility never turns into contagion.
NAV, Servicing & Custody
Keep prices, yield, and the official record beyond dispute
Investors act on the numbers you publish and trust you to safeguard their shares. We validate the oracle and NAV-feed integrity, the dividend and accrual logic, and the corporate-action handling behind the fund, and we assess the key management, signing, and the reconciliation between your onchain record and your transfer agent's book of record, the way an attacker, and an auditor, would.
Across all of the above
Counterparty & Onchain Due Diligence
Before your funds depend on a chain, bridge, oracle, stablecoin, custodian, or trading venue, our Technical Risk Assessment gives your vendor-risk and compliance teams analysis built to withstand scrutiny under MiCA, DORA, and equivalent frameworks, and to support fund filings and internal risk reviews. Once you are live, custom monitoring keeps that picture current as the dependencies change.
From a fund's design to its life in market, one security partner
Tokenizing a fund is not a one-time audit. Architecture, issuance, distribution, and servicing each carry their own risk, and that risk keeps shifting as the fund reaches new chains, venues, and asset classes. OpenZeppelin works across all four stages as a single partner, led by world-class researchers and scaled by OpenZeppelin AI, and calibrated to your fund's scale, asset classes, and regulatory exposure.
Architect
Validate the design before
code is written
Architecture Review
Threat Modeling
Standards & Regulatory Review
Governance Design
Cryptographic Design Review
Applied Research
Build
Reach production with secure foundations
Blockchain Library Development
Custom Platform & Solution Development
Reference Implementations
Standards Development
Blockchain Library Development
Custom Platform & Solution Development
Reference Implementations
Standards Development
Secure
Catch vulnerabilities across code, infrastructure, and operations
Smart Contract Security Audit
Blockchain Infrastructure Audit
Zero-Knowledge Proof Audit
Technical Risk Assessment (TRA)
Penetration Testing
Operational Security Assessment
Deployment Verification
Smart Contract Security Audit
Blockchain Infrastructure Audit
Zero-Knowledge Proof Audit
Technical Risk Assessment (TRA)
Penetration Testing
Operational Security Assessment
Deployment Verification
Support
Keep production systems secure over time
Continuous Support & Maintenance
Designated Blockchain Security Architect
Custom Monitoring Solution
Security Training & Enablement
Continuous Support & Maintenance
Dedicated Blockchain Architect
Custom Monitoring Solution
Security Training & Enablement
Coverage shaped around your fund program, not a fixed package
Talk to a Security ExpertWe combine services from across the lifecycle into the mix your fund actually needs, and adjust it as the program grows from a first issuance into a multichain, multi-asset range. Engage on a defined-scope project, or through the Continuous Security Program for ongoing coverage.
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The standard the leading tokenized funds already run on
The asset managers already leading onchain are not betting investor assets on untested code. The libraries behind 10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds, and 9 of the top 10 stablecoins, are ours, hardened over a decade with no exploits in any fully-remediated code we have audited.
Every engagement pairs world-class security researchers with OpenZeppelin AI, with risk assessment and monitoring running throughout, so issues surface early, while they are still cheap to fix.
+$35 Trillion in value transferred via OpenZeppelin Contracts
9 of the top 10 stablecoins by market cap built on OpenZeppelin Contracts
10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds by market cap built on OpenZeppelin Contracts
"Huge thanks to OpenZeppelin for being a great partner during the security audit — their expertise and constant support were invaluable for the entire engagement."
"The OpenZeppelin team was collaborative and deeply knowledgeable. They took the time to understand our use case and made meaningful contributions throughout the process."
Built for institutional risk, compliance, and oversight
Security & Compliance
OpenZeppelin runs a security and compliance program aligned with SOC 2 Type II and enterprise requirements, with data privacy, operational controls, and an insurance program built into every engagement.
Shaping Industry Standards
We help write the rules, contributing to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Blockchain Security Standards Council, the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
Regulatory & Central Bank Engagement
We engage directly with regulators and policymakers across major jurisdictions, including the U.S. Treasury, SEC, UK FCA, and French ACPR/AMF, and advise central banks and standards bodies such as the Bank for International Settlements.