Bring market infrastructure onchain, with resilience your whole market can rely on
Depositories, clearing houses, exchanges, and custodians are moving tokenized securities from pilot into controlled production. OpenZeppelin develops the open standards and reference implementations market infrastructure can adopt, and secures the ledgers, settlement logic, and operations beneath them to the resilience your participants expect.
Trusted by leading financial institutions and blockchain protocols
When you are the market's infrastructure, a security failure reaches every participant
- $38B+
- in tokenized real-world assets distributed onchain
- $350B+
- in tokenized asset value represented onchain
- $3.4B
- lost to onchain exploits in 2025
Sources: rwa.xyz (Sept 2026); Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report.
Market infrastructure sits at the point where risk concentrates. Every participant, custodian, and investor downstream relies on your records being correct, your settlement being final, and your systems staying available through stress. As depositories, clearing houses, and exchanges move tokenized securities and onchain settlement into controlled production, the smart contracts, keys, and networks involved become part of that critical infrastructure, held to the same expectations of operational resilience and supervisory scrutiny as everything else you run.
Get it right, and tokenization strengthens the role you already play in the market.
The ledger model, entitlement structure, participant permissioning, delivery-versus-payment design, and supported networks are set before a single participant connects. Once the market runs on them, changing them means coordinating every participant at once.
Tokenized entitlements, atomic settlement, and multi-ledger connectivity still lack settled industry standards. Designing each component in-house is slow, and adopting a proprietary stack ties a market-wide service to one vendor's roadmap.
Exposure extends to participant wallets and keys, the networks you operate on, the oracles and reference data you consume, and the interfaces between your onchain records and your books and records. The weakest connection sets the risk of the whole arrangement.
Market infrastructure is expected to run through stress events, upgrades, and regulatory change without interruption. Assurance at go-live says little about how the system performs as participants, assets, and networks change around it.
Where OpenZeppelin helps across the post-trade lifecycle, now onchain
From issuance and recordkeeping to clearing, settlement, and collateral, here is what OpenZeppelin develops with you and how we secure it.
- Tokenized Securities & Entitlements
Record ownership onchain with the integrity of the official record
- We develop open, reference-grade components for representing securities and entitlements onchain, covering issuance and cancellation, corporate actions, and transfer restrictions between registered participants. Then we review the reconciliation that keeps every token in step with your books and records. The same OpenZeppelin standards sit behind 10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds by market cap.
- Clearing, Settlement & DvP
Settle atomically, with finality participants can rely on
- We design and develop atomic delivery-versus-payment components for stablecoin, tokenized deposit, or wholesale settlement cash legs, then threat-model and review netting, failure, and rollback handling, so faster settlement adds no new settlement risk.
- Collateral & Margin Mobility
Move collateral across the market intraday
- Tokenized collateral can be pledged, substituted, and returned within the day, which removes the manual checkpoints that used to catch errors. We develop reference implementations for pledge, substitution, and valuation-triggered workflows, and review the liquidation logic and access controls around them, so collateral velocity improves liquidity while your risk controls stay intact.
- Trading Venues & Market Access
List and trade tokenized instruments alongside traditional ones
- Venues admitting tokenized securities take on onchain order and settlement flows, participant onboarding, surveillance data, and the handoff to post-trade. We develop the integration components that connect matching to onchain settlement, and assess the flow end to end, so market integrity rules hold wherever the instrument trades.
- Interoperability & Multi-Ledger Connectivity
Connect participants across networks while the record stays singular
- Participants will hold tokenized assets on different networks. OpenZeppelin co-develops cross-chain messaging standards such as ERC-7786, and we help you connect your service to the permissioned and public networks participants use, assessing and verifying each deployment so the golden record stays singular.
Across all of the above
Systemic Risk & Supervisory Evidence- Before you approve a network, settlement asset, oracle, or technology provider for your market, our Technical Risk Assessment gives your risk, resilience, and compliance teams analysis designed for supervisory scrutiny, aligned with the international principles and operational resilience requirements market infrastructure operates under. Custom monitoring keeps that picture current for participants and supervisors once you are live.
“Bringing regulated funds onchain means security and compliance have to be inseparable, and they have to hold across every environment we build on. OpenZeppelin has been a continuous partner from architecture through deployment, across both our Ethereum and Solana work, and this consistency and rigor allows us to advance WisdomTree’s tokenization roadmap confidently, at scale.”
“Huge thanks to OpenZeppelin for being a great partner during the security audit — their expertise and constant support were invaluable for the entire engagement.”
Technical depth for infrastructure that has to run for decades
Bringing market infrastructure onchain spans architecture, development, participant onboarding, and live operations, and the bar at each stage is set by the systemic role you play. OpenZeppelin researchers and engineers work across all four stages, scaled by OpenZeppelin AI and calibrated to your market's scale, participant base, and supervisory requirements.
Validate the design before code is written
- Architecture Review
- Threat Modeling
- Standards & Regulatory Review
- Governance Design
- Cryptographic Design Review
- Applied Research
Reach production with secure foundations
- Blockchain Library Development
- Custom Platform & Solution Development
- Reference Implementations
- Standards Development
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
Keep production systems secure over time
- Continuous Support & Maintenance
- Dedicated Blockchain Architect
- Custom Monitoring Solution
- Security Training & Enablement
Engagement sized to your rollout, from controlled pilot to full production
Combine standards, development, and security work into the mix your service needs, and extend it as you move from a controlled pilot with select participants to full market production. Engage on a defined-scope project, or through the Continuous Security Program for coverage that runs alongside your operations.
The standards behind the assets now arriving at market infrastructure
The tokenized assets your participants will bring onchain, from settlement cash legs to collateral, largely run on OpenZeppelin already. The libraries behind 9 of the top 10 stablecoins and 10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds by market cap are OpenZeppelin Contracts, so infrastructure that runs on the same standards starts from a foundation the market already uses.
Every engagement pairs OpenZeppelin researchers and engineers with OpenZeppelin AI, with risk assessment and monitoring running throughout, so issues surface early, while they are still cheap to fix.
9 of the top 10 stablecoins
by market cap build on OpenZeppelin Contracts
10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds
by market cap build on OpenZeppelin Contracts
