Abstract partners with Open World on national-scale tokenization engine

Abstract and Open World announced a partnership to build a national-scale engine for converting high-value physical assets into programmable digital instruments, a step the organizations said aimed to make those assets available in digital markets.

The companies described how assets long held outside digital markets—AI megacenters, national energy reserves, oil fields, and sovereign holdings—could become tokenized to permit compliant fractional ownership and new paths for liquidity while preserving control by governments, regulated central organizations, and enterprises.

Abstract outlined a quantum-resistant zero-knowledge blockchain anchored to Ethereum and described capabilities that included more than 10,000 transactions per second, an estimated transaction cost of $0.001, zero-knowledge cryptography for privacy, embedded policy controls, sovereign-grade privacy, national-scale throughput, and on-premise deployment with settlement on Ethereum's validator layer.

The collaboration set out to deliver what the partners described as the first national-scale real-world asset tokenization engine, with Open World contributing institutional RWA infrastructure and a history of tokenizing over $65 billion in premium crypto assets, and Abstract supplying its described blockchain technology backed by Founders Fund to represent Artificial Intelligence (AI) megacenters, energy infrastructure, and related assets.

“Our partnership with Abstract aims to unlock a new category of Blue Chip RWAs,” said Matt Shaw, Co-founder and CEO of Open World. “Abstract unlocks what we call Internet Capital Markets, a world where financial systems live natively on the internet and move at the speed of culture,” said Abstract Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee.

The companies described plans to support compliant stablecoin issuance and national-scale tokenization of premium real-world assets on the platform.