Plume, the first permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance, today announced that it will be working with OpenTrade to launch and integrate new yield bearing vaults through Nest, its flagship staking protocol. These are powered by OpenTrade’s real-world asset (RWA) stablecoin yield infrastructure and backed by WisdomTree’s suite of tokenized funds.
OpenTrade, founded by a team that played key roles in the development of USDC at Centre (the joint venture between Coinbase and Circle) and backed by investors including a16zCrypto and Circle, has leveraged their deep expertise in stablecoin infrastructure to build an enterprise-grade stablecoin ‘yield-as-a-service’ platform that makes accessing RWA-backed yield on USDC and USDC.e seamless and secure. OpenTrade will deploy, manage and scale stablecoin yield products backing Nest’s vaults, enabling Nest’s users to earn yield on their stablecoins balances backed by exposure to WisdomTree’s tokenized funds using their existing wallets and other Web3 native systems.
WisdomTree, a $130 billion global financial innovator, pioneered the creation of fundamentally weighted ETFs nearly two decades ago and today offers a broad suite of exchange-traded products (ETPs), models, and solutions. Its digital asset business extends this legacy of innovation with tokenized funds and stablecoins available through WisdomTree Prime (for retail users) and WisdomTree Connect (for institutions).
“WisdomTree welcomes the use of our tokenized funds within DeFi-native applications such as OpenTrade’s deployment into Nest vaults,” said Maredith Hannon, Head of Business Development, Digital Assets for WisdomTree. “These products were designed for onchain retail and institutional investors, and their integration into this ecosystem highlights how regulated, tokenized strategies can serve as building blocks for onchain finance.”
Plume’s integration of OpenTrade vaults backed by WisdomTree tokenized funds on Nest provides users with a seamless experience. By depositing stablecoins, users receive vault tokens that accrue interest in real-time, with the flexibility to unstake and receive their USDC and accrued interest at any time. In the back-end, this process is facilitated by OpenTrade’s on-chain vault infrastructure, which complies with Nest’s adherence to ERC-4626 and ERC-7540 standards and ensures standardized and transparent reflections of interest rates and accruals between on-chain balances and underlying assets at all times. OpenTrade’s dedicated asset manager, Five Sigma, which manages over $6B in AUMA and operates under UK financial regulator (Financial Conduct Authority) supervision, carries out all fund transfer, trading, and reporting activities through automated systems and processes that are fully integrated with OpenTrade’s on-chain vaults.
“This partnership bridges three layers of the new financial stack: institutional assets, compliant infrastructure, and on-chain distribution. By deploying OpenTrade’s vaults and WisdomTree’s tokenized funds into Nest, we’re delivering transparent stablecoin yield backed by real, institutional-grade assets,” said Teddy Pornprinya, Co-Founder and CBO at Plume.
“Together, we’re enabling DeFi’s next chapter by connecting real users with real yield opportunities.”
The first two OpenTrade-WisdomTree vaults integrated into Nest will be secured by the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX) and the WisdomTree Private Credit and Alternative Income Digital Fund (CRDT) respectively, with additional vaults backed by other WisdomTree tokenized funds planned for launch in the upcoming months.
“OpenTrade’s stablecoin yield infrastructure has been purpose-built to enable seamless access to on-chain yield backed by high quality financial assets” said Jeffrey Handler, Co-Founder and CCO at OpenTrade. “Through Nest’s partnership with OpenTrade, Nest users now have access to returns backed by a range of WisdomTree tokenized funds, directly from their wallet on the Plume Network – simply and securely.”
Plume is the first permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance (RWAfi) with native DeFi integration. Backed by a global network of financial institutions and service providers, Plume is the leading RWA ecosystem, with the largest active wallet base in the RWA sector and 200+ projects. Nest is the flagship staking protocol on Plume enabling users to earn institutional-grade yields through real world assets. The permissionless protocol allows fund managers and issuers to create structured offerings, while giving users access to traditionally restricted assets and opportunities.
OpenTrade is an institutional grade platform for real world asset backed lending and stablecoin yield products backed by a suite of high-quality on-chain and real world financial assets that generate predictable risk-adjusted returns. Backed by investors including a16z Crypto and Circle, the OpenTrade platform has been built to allow any company to power their own stablecoin yield products for their users, who can trust in OpenTrade’s enterprise-grade technology systems, and the security guarantees of our time-tested legal protections and bank-grade asset management operations.
WisdomTree is a global financial innovator and a leading sponsor of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with over $130 billion in assets under management. Building on its legacy of ETF innovation, WisdomTree is pioneering the next generation of finance through blockchain-enabled products and infrastructure. Its digital asset business offers 14 SEC-registered tokenized funds — spanning money market, fixed income, equity, and asset allocation strategies — accessible via WisdomTree Prime (for retail users) and WisdomTree Connect (for institutions). These funds are available across major blockchains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Optimism, Plume, and Stellar, empowering users to save, invest, and manage treasury operations in a digital-native format. Learn more at https://www.wisdomtreeconnect.com/
