Polytrade announced its integration into the Integra Consortium as the Lead Development Anchor, a significant advancement in the development of real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure. Through its technological contributions, extensive ecosystem experience, and established institutional partnerships, Polytrade will play a key role in designing, constructing, and expanding Integra’s Asset-Specific Layer 1, specifically tailored for the global real estate market.
Polytrade's Experience in Real-World Asset Tokenization
Since 2021, Polytrade has been a leader in the tokenization of real-world assets. The company has cultivated one of the most active RWA ecosystems, connecting issuers, liquidity providers, secondary market participants, global distributors, and enterprise partners. This practical experience highlighted a fundamental issue: existing blockchains were not adequately equipped to handle the complex data, compliance, valuation, settlement, and identity requirements of institutional real estate markets.
Shaping a Blockchain for Regulated Assets
Over the past five years, Polytrade’s institutional division has collaborated with banks, funds, and enterprises on private-chain and regulated RWA deployments. These engagements have involved long-standing relationships with international partners, payment networks, enterprises, and tokenization companies across various jurisdictions, including collaborations with Mastercard. The insights gained from these projects solidified Polytrade's belief that RWAs require a blockchain engineered with the specific needs of regulated assets in mind.
Integra: A Purpose-Built Blockchain for Real Estate
Integra provides this essential foundation. As a blockchain specifically developed for real estate, Integra offers a vertically integrated environment where asset information, ownership records, compliance verification, data feeds, liquidity streams, and market applications are natively incorporated. This architecture directly addresses the demands of issuers, institutional capital, regulators, and global RWA participants. According to the whitepaper released on November 28th, Integra is building a comprehensive Asset Specific L1, with the Foundation responsible for developing the blockchain, native applications, and a native stablecoin.
Consortium Strengths and Integra's Value Proposition
The Integra Consortium includes prominent real estate asset managers like Nitya Capital, development firms such as BNW Developments, and technology companies like Digishares. The involvement of these asset managers and tokenization leaders ensures a robust business foundation from the outset. With its ambitious plans for a native stablecoin and native decentralized applications (DApps), Integra is positioned to generate value not only through transaction fees like other Layer 1 blockchains but also through yield on its stablecoin and fees from native DApps. By bringing the movement of hundreds of millions in rents, exits, and sales from its consortium members onto the blockchain, Integra is set to become a new, value-generating Layer 1, potentially driving the growth of other Asset-Specific Layer 1s.
Polytrade's Role and Contribution
By joining the Consortium, Polytrade will spearhead technical development for the chain and its core infrastructure, foster ecosystem expansion, and facilitate the onboarding of institutional partners and asset flows. Leveraging its existing distribution network and proven RWA marketplace, Polytrade brings an operational advantage that will accelerate Integra's adoption.
Community Allocation for $TRADE Holders
In recognition of its long-standing community, Polytrade confirmed that holders of the $TRADE token will receive an allocation of Integra’s native token, $IRL.
Final allocation details will be communicated following the Foundation's conclusion of its allocation process.
Strategic Vision and Future Outlook
The Polytrade team expressed that this new phase represents a natural progression of the company's core mission: to connect traditional assets with blockchain environments specifically designed to support them. Polytrade will continue to operate its marketplace and institutional services under the broader Integra framework, while also providing engineering leadership, ecosystem development, and industry expertise to the chain.
The company highlighted that this partnership underscores a long-term commitment to transforming global real estate markets, with Integra serving as the dedicated infrastructure for this transformative initiative.
About Integra
Integra is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on real estate, built for trust, compliance, and interoperability. It facilitates the large-scale tokenization, management, and exchange of real-world assets. With a consortium representing over $12 billion in managed assets, Integra provides the foundational layer for a programmable and liquid real estate economy.
About Polytrade
Polytrade is the leading aggregator marketplace for tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs). It lists over 7,000 assets from more than 70 tokenization partners across 8+ chains, covering over 95% of publicly available RWAs. Supported by industry leaders such as Mastercard, Polygon, Alpha Wave, and Matrix Partners, Polytrade offers tokenized T-bills, credit, real estate, stocks, and luxury assets from protocols like Ondo, Centrifuge, and Paxos, all within a single platform.