Overview
- KB Securities, Securitize and the Optimism Foundation signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding to cooperate on tokenized investment products for Korean institutional investors.
- The plan prioritizes funds, with an initial focus on a tokenized money market fund slated for OP Mainnet and a separate fund based on a KB Asset Management strategy.
- No technical architecture, issuance terms, launch dates or fees have been finalized and the parties say further design work is required before any products are issued.
- Progress is explicitly tied to South Korea’s phased tokenization rules and amended securities legislation scheduled to take effect in February 2027, which will determine which products and settlement models are allowed.
- The deal links KB’s distribution and issuance capabilities to Securitize’s regulated digital‑securities infrastructure and Optimism’s blockchain, and it joins other local pilots testing stablecoin settlement as Korean firms prepare for tokenized markets.