ORQO Group, a new institutional asset manager, has officially launched its global platform in Abu Dhabi with $370 million in assets under management. The group combines traditional and crypto financial institutions licensed in Europe's MiCA zone, including Mount TFI (private debt), Monterra Capital (multi-strategy hedge fund), blockchain studio Nextrope, and DeFi protocol Soil.
CEO Nicholas Motz stated, "ORQO is a unified, global investment ecosystem, combining over 20 years' experience in institutional finance with pioneering blockchain infrastructure." The group has obtained licenses in Poland and Malta and is now seeking regulatory approval at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) to expand regulated digital asset services in the Middle East.
Through its Soil platform, ORQO will offer on-chain yield services based on private credit for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger. The platform connects tokenized private credit and real estate with stablecoin deposits, creating yield opportunities for institutional treasuries and protocol reserves. Former Securitize President Jamie Finn, now an advisor to Soil and ORQO, will help oversee RLUSD credit pool creation.
Ripple and BCG project that real-world asset (RWA) tokenization could reach $18.9 trillion by 2033, while the current RWA market has just topped $30 billion. ORQO plans to expand its RLUSD yield pools for both institutional treasuries and protocol-based investors, leveraging Abu Dhabi's progressive regulatory environment for crypto finance.