Abstract and Open World Forge Landmark Partnership to Build First National-Scale RWA Tokenization Engine

Abstract and Open World have announced a landmark partnership to build the world's first national-scale real-world asset (RWA) tokenization engine. The collaboration aims to bring the planet's most valuable physical assets—including AI supercomputing centers, strategic real estate, and critical energy infrastructure—onto a programmable, digital market via a next-generation, quantum-resistant zero-knowledge (ZK) blockchain anchored to Ethereum.

The initiative seeks to unlock liquidity for assets traditionally trapped in analog capital structures accessible only to a narrow band of global institutions. By tokenizing these "Blue Chip" real-world assets, the partnership will enable compliant fractional ownership, giving governments, regulated organizations, and enterprises unprecedented control over capital formation and interaction with strategic physical infrastructure.

The core infrastructure will be Abstract's enterprise-grade, quantum-resistant ZK blockchain, which is backed by investors including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. The blockchain is designed to deliver the scale, privacy, and decentralization required for trillion-dollar capital systems, boasting over 10,000 transactions per second (TPS), a low cost per transaction ($0.001), zero-knowledge cryptography for privacy, and embedded policy controls.

Open World, which has already tokenized over $65 billion in premium crypto assets, will provide the institutional-scale infrastructure for RWA deployment. Matt Shaw, Co-founder and CEO of Open World, stated, "Our RWA tokenization engine on Abstract will be a quantum-resistant platform for national economies—built for countries and enterprises that manage critical infrastructure, sovereign monetary systems, and multi-trillion-dollar asset portfolios."

Michael Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Abstract, described the vision as creating "Internet Capital Markets," where financial systems operate natively on the internet. The leaders emphasized this marks a shift towards borderless, programmable, and always-on financial systems.

The partnership underscores the critical role of Ethereum's security and decentralization for national-scale tokenization. Russ McMeekin, Chairman of mCloud Saudi Arabia, highlighted that sovereign RWA systems require guarantees of decentralization and censorship resistance that centralized chains cannot meet. Abstract inherits Ethereum's security—bolstered by over one million active validators—while adding sovereign-grade privacy, national-scale throughput, and on-premise deployment capabilities for enterprises and governments.