News Summary

• ADI Chain and Shipfinex are partnering to tokenize commercial ships.
• They aim to open the $680B ship-finance market to wider capital pool.
• Maritime shipping accounts for more than 80% of international trade in goods by volume.
• The deal signals that tokenization is expanding beyond financial instruments such as government bonds and money market funds into physical, capital-intensive infrastructure, like ships and warehouses, that underpin the global economy."Maritime finance has the scale, real assets and commercial activity to become a major new real-world asset category," Ramana Kumar, President of Stablecoin Ecosystem at ADI Foundation said.