August 1st, 2025 – New York, United States

Plume, the real world asset (RWA) chain, welcomed the inclusion of its consultation and insights in the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets report.

Plume was highlighted for its contribution of market insights on tokenization of real world assets.

Last week, Plume released a set of forward-looking policy recommendations calling for the development of capital markets policy. In the memo, the team called for capital markets regulation that matches the innovation unlocked by stablecoins. The Working Group’s newly released national roadmap affirms that vision, highlighting the role of permissionless infrastructure, tokenized financial products, and updated regulatory frameworks in advancing U.S. leadership in digital finance.

“The Report is a full-throated endorsement of permissionless blockchains and decentralized finance at the heart of a future onchain financial system. Plume has worked to sate global demand for US dollar assets through offshore work arounds. This Report is the blueprint for the onshoring of onchain capital markets under a regulatory framework that addresses real risks but also realizes new opportunities,” said Salman Bananei, General Counsel at Plume. 

The Report aligns with Plume’s core belief that open, permissionless blockchains and DeFi can strengthen markets when paired with responsible oversight. This reinforces the value of decentralized infrastructure under thoughtful regulation.

It also echoes Plume’s call for regulatory clarity, supporting innovation sandboxes, safe harbors, and updated rules around custody, registration, and capital treatment, especially for assets on public blockchains.

The Report affirms that tokenized assets are the future of finance. The team at Plume have advocated for policies that enable safe tokenized yield and other onchain financial products as a part of robust onchain capital markets.

On stablecoins, the Report aligns with Plume’s position that they can modernize U.S. payments and that the government should support the “development and growth of lawful and legitimate dollar-backed stablecoins worldwide.”

Finally, the Report supports tax reforms long advocated by Plume, including treating stablecoins as money and creating a digital asset-specific tax category to support compliant onchain activity.

Plume As a Real World Asset Market Leader

At over 160,000 holders at time of writing, Plume accounts for 50% of all RWA holders across Web3. With over $300 million in total value locked (TVL) and growing, Plume is well placed to support policy as governments across the world catch up to the reality that digital assets are a foundational part of future financial structures. 

The alignment between Plume’s proposals and federal recommendations underscores the company’s leadership in shaping policy at the intersection of blockchain and traditional finance. 

About Plume

Plume is the first full-stack blockchain and ecosystem dedicated to real-world asset finance. With 200+ projects building on its EVM-compatible infrastructure, Plume makes it simple to tokenize and integrate real-world assets into DeFi applications, enabling anyone to interact with global financial markets through intuitive, on-chain tools.

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June 9th, 2025 – Singapore, Singapore

TrueNorth, led by a former chief of hybrid CeFi/DeFi exchange WOO and AI experts, raises a strategic angel round to pioneer the agentic economy.

The founders of LayerZero, SEI, Selini Capital, Virtuals, Plume, and Presto Labs have collectively backed an AI platform that uses autonomous agents and real-time data to uncover crypto opportunities. AI-focused firm TrueNorth, co-founded by former WOO COO Willy Chuang and ex-Temasek AI tech investor Alex Lee, has raised $1 million in funding to develop Crypto’s first AI-powered engine. An engine symbiotic to the users’ discovery journey from intent straight to the outcome.

TrueNorth’s agentic technology continuously scans across chains, socials, and macro and project data to surface timely, high-signal insights for every user personalized to their portfolio, trading style, and past behavior.

“We see true AI agents becoming the foundation for how people invest in crypto for the future,” said Willy Chuang and Alex Lee, co-founders of TrueNorth. “The market is only getting more complex, and our goal is to cut through the noise with a hyper-personalized engine powered by a generative user interface (known as Gen UI) that adapts to each user’s style and behavior in real-time. We’re building a system where the agnetic flow and expert distilled reinforcement learning models work quietly in the background, driving the user’s intent infinitely closer to the outcome. Willy Chuang, who previously led operations at the CeFi/DeFi exchange WOO, emphasized the real-world need for tools that reduce cognitive overload in fast-moving markets. “Having led crypto exchanges and worked closely with a broad range of traders and investors, I’ve seen how fragmented data and constant noise creates friction in decision-making,” said Chuang. “TrueNorth is built to simplify this, delivering personalized insights that evolve with each user so they can move faster with more confidence.”For his part, Alex Lee, a PhD in AI, highlighted the platform’s AI-driven approach and ongoing development phase. “AI has reached a point where it can do more than just process data; it can understand context, adapt to users, and continuously improve decision-making,” said Lee. “That’s the foundation we’re building on: agentic intelligence that works behind the scenes to surface what matters most. We’re currently in closed beta, working closely with early users to refine a system that feels intuitive but is powered by serious intelligence.”

TrueNorth’s backers, Bryan Pellegrino of LayerZero, Jeff Feng of SEI, Jordi Alexander of Selini Capital, and Yongjin of Presto Labs, as well as Will Wang of Generative Ventures, share a strong belief in AI’s transformative power in crypto trading. Their interests span key themes such as interoperability, data-driven AI models, algorithmic market strategies, and innovative infrastructure development. Together, these interests reflect not only a shared belief in AI’s potential but also the same principles driving TrueNorth’s mission to simplify and personalize decision-making in decentralized markets.

TrueNorth, a platform under Singapore-registered Advent AI, is working closely with its first 500 early users, the Truthsayers, to refine agentic workflows for AI-native investing in closed beta. In the coming weeks, the team will unveil key details of its advanced architecture and agentic frameworks as it gears up for a public launch aimed at delivering smarter, hyper-personalized crypto discovery tools to a wider audience.

To learn more about TrueNorth, users can visit https://true-north.xyz/

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About TrueNorth

TrueNorth is the crypto industry’s first autonomous, AI-powered discovery engine, designed to be symbiotic with the user journey, bringing intent straight to an outcome. Combining on-chain, social, and macro data, TrueNorth uses advanced agentic infrastructure to deliver real-time, tailored insights that evolve with each user’s investment journey. Founded by DeFi/CeFi and AI experts, TrueNorth aims to democratize decentralized finance by making complex crypto information accessible and actionable for investors at all levels. TrueNorth is part of Delphi Labs’ dAGI accelerator, a protocol R&D lab focused on incubating and accelerating new Web3 primitives.

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Many people are now exploring Real World Assets Finance (RWAfi), a branch of blockchain that turns physical items into tokens. Plume Blockchain stands out by weaving compliance and asset tokenization into one platform. Discover how Plume and RWAfi work together, why they matter, and how they could reshape your approach to owning and trading real items.

Understanding RWAfi

RWAfi involves converting real-world assets into blockchain tokens. Imagine scanning a paper document so you can handle it digitally—only now you’re working with tangible items with actual market value. Through RWAfi, you can fractionalize ownership and streamline transfers, enabling people worldwide to invest or trade in assets without being limited by location.

Real estate, rare art, collectibles, and commodities can all be represented by tokens, which simplifies buying, selling, and transferring these physical resources. More importantly, it creates new financial products since you can pair tokenized items with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and data feeds, potentially introducing fresh ways to earn income or hedge against market swings.

What is Plume?

Plume is the first modular blockchain built exclusively for RWAfi. Other blockchains often center on digital currencies or specific use cases, but Plume integrates compliance and tokenization at its foundation. This structure allows many real-world assets—from collectible memorabilia to precious metals—to become digital tokens.

Plume welcomes different asset classes, empowering institutions, casual collectors, and inventive developers to interact within one ecosystem. By handling compliance directly on the chain, Plume avoids extra hurdles many projects face when they try to include legal checks in their smart contracts. As a result, everything runs more transparently for those looking to bring real assets on-chain.

Plume Arc: the tokenization engine

Plume Arc stands as the engine behind asset tokenization on Plume. It’s a modular framework that links issuers to key service providers—like KYC/AML platforms or custodians—ensuring every aspect of compliance is handled smoothly.

For instance, if you plan to tokenize real estate, you’ll rely on Plume Arc to confirm the legal identity of buyers, manage fiat gateways, and verify that each step meets regulatory requirements. Its versatility comes from a specialized token standard called ERC-3643, which embeds compliance features into tokens themselves.

Smart wallets: native account abstraction

After tokenizing an asset, you’ll want an easy way to manage and trade it. This is where Plume’s Smart Wallets step in. Traditional blockchains use externally owned accounts that often need extra smart contracts for advanced features, which can be cumbersome. Plume embeds those features into user accounts by default, reducing the need for separate contracts.

This native account abstraction lets you perform gas-sponsored transactions or combine multiple actions simultaneously. You could stake a tokenized painting or switch between various DeFi strategies without juggling different wallets.

Plume Data Highway: Oracle and Real Data Feeds

RWAfi depends on accurate data from outside sources. Plume’s Data Highway ensures real-time information flows securely into the blockchain. It uses TLSNotary technology to verify data, reserving part of each block to store external updates. For example, if you want to tokenize commodities that rely on market prices, the Data Highway can confirm daily rates and feed that information directly on-chain.

This isn’t limited to financial data; it can incorporate weather details for agricultural tokens or consumer demand statistics for new kinds of assets. Having reliable data baked into the chain, Plume helps RWAfi projects automate calculations based on real-world events.

Expanding RWAs: collectibles, art, and more

The range of assets that can be tokenized on Plume goes beyond real estate or metals. Collectors might want to tokenize antique items, while tech fans could fractionalize GPUs used for AI tasks. Plume’s Smart Wallets simplify handling these varied assets by offering built-in functions for staking, lending, or storing them until they’re ready for sale. Because every user account on Plume comes pre-equipped with these features, you can manage an entire RWAfi portfolio in a single wallet instead of juggling multiple smart contracts.

With more than 170 projects already developing on Plume, the network continues to expand rapidly. Plume offers a modular software development kit (SDK) to handle this. Developers can design custom workflows that tap into Plume’s compliance tools and data feeds. That way, new projects can concentrate on their core goal while meeting security and legal requirements.

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Overcoming hurdles for institutional adoption

Plume tackles two main challenges that big financial institutions care about. The first is compliance, which Plume handles by automating identity checks and transaction monitoring at the blockchain layer. This helps banks and asset managers meet global standards. The second is liquidity. By working with secondary marketplaces like tZERO, Plume gives tokenized assets a ready space to be traded. If you hold a stake in a tokenized real estate project or want to sell equities that are on-chain, you’ll likely face fewer waiting periods.

The Plume token: key details

At the core of Plume’s blockchain is the PLUME token, introduced on January 21, 2025, with a total supply capped at 10 billion, with an initial circulating supply of 20%, equating to 2 billion tokens. PLUME handles transaction fees to keep the network active. It also allows staking to secure the chain, rewarding those who help maintain it.

On top of that, PLUME grants governance rights, letting holders propose or vote on system changes. Since the token plays multiple roles in the ecosystem, it keeps the community involved in Plume’s direction.

Plume’s Roadmap and Plume Passport

Looking ahead, Plume aims to scale its infrastructure and incorporate more real-time data feeds. As the platform brings in more asset classes, you’ll see new ways to participate in RWAfi—from tokenized collectibles to equity-based offerings. One major milestone is the arrival of the Plume Passport, an all-in-one wallet that combines identity checks with gasless transactions.

By bundling compliance, staking, and collateral options into a single user interface, Plume Passport hopes to cater to everyone, not just crypto veterans. This approach removes common stumbling blocks by letting you handle multiple DeFi actions under one roof, backed by Plume’s inherent legal and technical safeguards.

Moca Network and 0G AI Agents

Moca Network, connected to Animoca Brands, merges its AIR Kit digital identity with Plume. Over 700 million people from Moca’s partner ecosystems gain easier access to RWAfi opportunities, including institutional-grade asset staking. By embedding universal identity verification, this partnership cuts through many regulatory delays and makes the onboarding process smoother.

Plume is also joining forces with 0G to introduce RWAI Agents—an AI-powered suite that simplifies real-world asset (RWA) finance. These decentralized agents will handle everything from tokenizing assets to conducting research, generating reports, and managing DeFAI-based vault operations.

Conclusion

RWAfi and Plume offer a glimpse of how physical goods can be digitized and traded at blockchain speed. By weaving compliance and data verification right into the chain, Plume is clearing hurdles that often slow asset tokenization on other platforms. The result aims to be a simpler journey for those who want to own or trade items backed by real-world value.