The Singapore-headquartered online investment and trading platform for digital securities (DSO) and security tokens (STO) is targeting the $8 trillion tokenization of private markets.

InvestaX has launched its exchange, offering end-to-end solutions for the issuance, trading and custody of digital securities for real estate, private equity and other alternative investments, it announced on Thursday.

The platform will focus on global private markets deals, in particular growth industries such as crypto, gaming, blockchain, digital assets, venture, private equity and real estate, the announcement said.

The exchange is built with open infrastructure and is fully integrated with leading public blockchain protocols including Ethereum, Tezos, Hedera Hashgraph, and Algorand, with more protocol integrations in the pipeline. It is also working with DeFi platforms like IX Swap to bring new liquidity solutions to the digital securities marketplace, to fuel the growth in trading volumes as the industry expands.

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In the announcement, InvestaX said the tokenization of assets will make digital securities of private companies or real estate funds more valuable, as investors are able to lend, borrow, trade and use their digital securities as assets and collateral.

Julian Kwan, CEO of InvestaX, said the connectivity between cryptocurrencies and securities tokens is «ushering in the next wave of innovation and expansion of the digital assets industry as well as new innovative investment products never seen before.»

Founded in 2015, InvestaX has listed more than 28 private equity offerings that are jointly valued over $1 billion and had 16 successful exits to date.