TL;DR 

• COTI has been officially welcomed into the Tokenized Asset Coalition (TAC) - a collective working to bring over $1 trillion in assets on-chain.
• TAC is bridging traditional and crypto finance through education, infrastructure, and regulatory advocacy.
• 24 new members, including COTI, were selected from hundreds of applicants, joining industry leaders like Fidelity, Stellar, zkSync etc.
• COTI's strength lies in its "Privacy-on-Demand" tech, solving a major obstacle to institutional RWA adoption: data confidentiality.
• COTI is building a global footprint, from working with the European Central Bank on a CBDC concept to joining the Africa Tokenization Council.
• COTI's inclusion signals growing trust in privacy-preserving, regulatory-compliant DeFi infrastructure.
• TAC's mission is clear: align protocols, platforms, and institutions toward a unified, tokenized financial system.

In a significant step for both its roadmap and the broader adoption of real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain, COTI has officially joined the Tokenized Asset Coalition (TAC). This organization brings together the biggest names in traditional finance and Web3 to push toward a shared goal: moving $1 trillion in assets to public blockchains.

Announced through TAC's official X (Twitter) handle , COTI joins 23 other new members - chosen from hundreds of applicants - as part of the coalition's latest expansion wave. Other inductees include major players such as Arbitrum, Polygon, Circle, Coinbase, Fireblocks, Zksync, Stellar, Fidelity. 

This membership is an opportunity to directly influence the architecture of institutional blockchain finance.

What is the Tokenized Asset Coalition?

The Tokenized Asset Coalition was formed with a bold mission to unite the fragmented efforts of traditional and decentralized finance in building an efficient, compliant, and scalable infrastructure for tokenized assets. Their long-term vision revolves around the belief that tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) such as bonds, real estate, and commodities will be a defining force in the next era of finance.

But to get there, TAC acknowledges the industry needs more than hype. It needs:

• Shared regulatory frameworks
• Interoperable networks
• Industry education
• Privacy, security, and transparency

That's why TAC was formed on three foundational pillars:

1. Education: Foster understanding through shared knowledge, events, and published insights.
2. Advocacy: Develop best practices to ensure long-term, regulation-aligned growth.
3. Adoption: Build real infrastructure for institutions to tokenize and manage assets on-chain.

Why COTI Was Chosen - A Privacy Pioneer

So, why was COTI selected among hundreds? One major reason is COTI's innovative Privacy-on-Demand technology - a breakthrough approach to enabling confidential, yet compliant, transactions and data management for RWAs.

Many institutional players are still hesitant about tokenization due to privacy concerns. Sensitive financial data on a public ledger can create compliance issues or security risks. COTI's privacy layer offers a powerful solution: it allows transactions to remain hidden by default, but also includes the necessary mechanisms for auditing and regulatory access when required.

The technology leverages garbled circuits, a cryptographic method that enables secure computation without revealing inputs ensuring privacy without slowing down performance or bloating transaction fees.

In simpler terms: it keeps things private until they need to be public and only for the right eyes.

COTI's Global RWA Momentum

TAC membership isn't COTI's first step into the tokenization arena. The project has already spent years building partnerships and laying groundwork across key geographies:

• Worked with the European Central Bank on a proof-of-concept for a Eurozone-wide central bank digital currency (CBDC).
• Joined the Africa Tokenization Council, which recently hosted its first policy roundtable at the RWA Summit in Dubai.
• Represented at the New York Digital Asset Summit Roundtable by COTI's CEPO, Joshua Maddox.
• Signed an MOU with Aureus.Money, aiming to integrate COTI's Privacy-on-Demand into their Hedera-based RWA platform.

These moves highlight COTI's positioning itself as a privacy-first, institution-ready backbone for real-world value on-chain.

The Bigger Picture: Why Tokenized Assets Matter

Tokenized assets, or RWAs, refer to real-world value items like real estate, company shares, or even art - being represented and traded on a blockchain. The appeal is simple: traditional systems are slow, expensive, and fragmented. Blockchains offer global, instant, and programmable financial systems but only if regulatory, privacy, and infrastructure barriers can be overcome.

According to TAC, tokenization is the "best opportunity" for TradFi and DeFi to work in sync. It's how:

• Traditional finance can reduce friction, settlement times, and overhead.
• Crypto ecosystems can find real-world utility and stable liquidity.
• A more open, inclusive, and global financial system can emerge.

Yet, tokenization is about tech and other words it's about alignment: rules, data privacy, legal clarity, and shared infrastructure. That's where initiatives like TAC are essential.

What Happens Next: COTI's Role in the TAC

As a new TAC member, COTI will take part in shaping key coalition activities, including:

• Bi-weekly coalition calls
• Quarterly whitepapers like "The State of Tokenized Assets"
• Monthly industry content
• Representation at global events across Asia, Europe, and North America
• Working groups focused on privacy, security, compliance, and cross-chain standards

More importantly, COTI will bring a voice to privacy in a space dominated by transparency - making sure the future of finance respects not just openness, but also user protection and data sovereignty.

Closing Thoughts: A Quiet Power Move

The real transformation is happening behind the scenes - where the worlds of traditional finance and blockchain are finally meeting in the middle. COTI's acceptance into the Tokenized Asset Coalition is a recognition of its role as an infrastructure leader for privacy-preserving, institutional-grade tokenization. And with over $1 trillion in assets poised to move on-chain, this may be the most important financial shift of the decade.