As institutions and regulators increasingly embrace the potential of Real World Assets (RWA’s) within blockchain ecosystems, the demand for reliable data, accurate pricing, and robust infrastructure is growing rapidly. RWAs such as tokenized equities, bonds, and real estate represent a new chapter in asset tokenization landscape, where traditional financial instruments are issued and traded on blockchain technology.
To meet this rising demand, Lukka has expanded its data coverage for digital assets to include tokenized equities, solidifying its position as the most comprehensive and trusted data provider for the institutional digital asset ecosystem.
This expansion into tokenized equities is fully supported by the integration of Lukka’s comprehensive data products. Lukka Reference Data provides precise asset identification and classification across blockchains and protocols, ensuring tokenized equities correctly references their underlying instruments. Lukka Market Data delivers granular insights into trading activity and market behavior for these tokens, while Lukka Prime offers institutional-grade fair market value pricing. Together, these datasets create a seamless foundation by ensuring all datasets connect together for institutions to seamlessly track, price, and report on tokenized equities across their full lifecycle, from issuance to trading to end-of-day valuation.
Bringing Clarity to Tokenized Markets
The tokenization of real-world financial instruments unlocks efficiencies in market transparency, settlement, and fractional ownership, but it also introduces new complexities in data quality, valuation, and risk management.
Lukka addresses these complexities by applying its proven infrastructure, controls, and institutional-grade methodology to the growing RWA category. This approach enables financial professionals to adopt tokenized assets with the same confidence they expect from traditional markets.
- Fair Market Value Pricing of Tokenized Equities
Through Lukka Prime, customers can now access audit-ready pricing for tokenized equity instruments. This expansion adheres to the same rigorous standards aligned with US GAAP (ASC 820) and IFRS 13, ensuring that valuations of tokenized assets are defensible, consistent, and regulator-ready. - Reference Data Enhancements
As tokenization grows, maintaining accurate identifiers, asset classifications, and linkage to underlying securities becomes critical. Lukka’s Reference Data feeds introduced support for tokenized equities in 2021 – providing a trusted foundation for effective risk, compliance, and portfolio management:
- Legal Entity Mappings – Links tokenized assets to issuers (e.g., Apple for AAPLx) to support regulatory and audit needs.
- Spot Trading Mappings – Connects RWAs to trading pairs and venues across CEXs and DEXs for full market coverage.
- Derivative Mappings – Maps tokenized assets to related on- and off-chain derivatives for exposure and risk analysis.
- Asset Metadata – Provides token standards, contract addresses, classification data and more for operational clarity.
- Risk Scoring – Offers risk-based scores based on liquidity, integration, and ecosystem signals.
- Exchange Metadata – Profiles exchanges by jurisdiction, asset types, and listing method for compliance insight.
- Complexity of Tokenized Equities Across Blockchains
Tokenized equities can present unique challenges due to their potential to trade on multiple blockchain networks; Lukka’s comprehensive data coverage and robust infrastructure bring clarity and consistency to their valuation and management across these diverse environments.
Why It Matters: Institutional Adoption of RWAs
RWAs are increasingly being viewed as a bridge between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). Tokenized assets introduce the benefits of blockchain, including 24/7 trading, enhanced liquidity, and programmable compliance, to real-world instruments. However, institutions entering this space require reliable, easily usable and trustworthy data.
Tokenization reduces friction in settlement, expands investor access, and enables programmable compliance. For example:
- A digital fund could offer fractional ownership of real estate through tokenized shares, settling trades instantly instead of waiting three days.
- A pension fund could hold tokenized sovereign bonds traded round the clock, adding yield flexibility and price discovery.
By expanding its product breadth to include tokenized RWAs, Lukka is helping asset managers, custodians, trading platforms, and auditors confidently engage with this emerging asset class. Whether it’s reporting tokenized equity NAV, analyzing market depth, or tracking issuer metadata, Lukka provides the infrastructure to support real-time decision-making and compliance workflows.
Powering the RWA Future
With over a decade of experience building institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset data, Lukka is uniquely positioned to support the evolution of tokenized markets. Our solutions enable firms to:
- Price tokenized equities with fair value methodology
- Access trade-level market data and analytics
- Maintain accurate reference data
- Distribute real-time market data
- Comply with global reporting and audit standards
- Integrate data via flexible delivery (API, WebSocket, FIX, SFTP)
As RWAs evolve from early-stage use cases to fully scalable investment products, Lukka’s trusted data infrastructure empowers institutions to onboard with confidence, maintaining accuracy, control, and regulatory compliance at every step.
Learn More
To explore how Lukka supports Real World Assets across pricing, reference data, and market infrastructure, contact us here or visit lukka.tech.
