- Hanwha invests KRW 18B ($13M) in Kresus to expand digital asset infrastructure.
- Funding helps enterprise wallets, RWA tokenization, and on-chain workflows.
- Deal follows MoU signed at Abu Dhabi Finance Week in December 2025.
Kresus Labs, a US-based digital wallet and blockchain infrastructure firm, has raised about KRW 18 billion(roughly) in a strategic funding from Hanwha Funding & Securities.
The deal highlights how conventional finance is more and more trying past crypto buying and selling and towards the “plumbing” behind digital property: safe wallets, enterprise techniques, and tokenized merchandise that may match into present monetary companies.
Strategic capital targets the infrastructure layer of digital property
Kresus mentioned the funding will help product growth, enterprise deployments, and international partnerships, areas that usually require lengthy implementation timelines and rigorous safety requirements.
The corporate builds digital asset instruments for each shoppers and establishments, and it operates enterprise-grade platforms for digital wallets and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, together with on-chain monetary workflows.
The funding follows a memorandum of understanding signed by Kresus and Hanwha Funding & Securities at Abu Dhabi Finance Week in December 2025, in accordance to the businesses.
That sequencing issues: MoUs are sometimes used to formalize intent, define collaboration areas, and arrange technical and industrial work earlier than funding or deeper integration plans are finalized.
Kresus additionally emphasised its safety method. It gives seedless wallet restoration expertise, designed to cut back reliance on a single restoration phrase that may be misplaced or stolen.
It additionally makes use of MPC-based safety techniques which broadly refers to splitting delicate signing or authorization steps throughout a number of elements so there’s much less dependence on one machine or one key.
In apply, these designs goal to make wallets tougher to compromise and simpler to recuperate, two ache factors which have restricted mainstream adoption.
“This funding validates each our expertise and the route Kresus has taken as an organization,” Trevor Traina, founding father of Kresus, mentioned in a press release.
He added that Kresus has targeted on infrastructure that works in real-world circumstances, from shopper functions “used at scale” to enterprise options constructed for institutional necessities.
RWA tokenization turns into a sensible focus for monetary companies
For Hanwha Funding & Securities, the partnership is framed as a approach to strengthen client-facing digital asset companies and to pursue tokenization initiatives linked to present monetary merchandise.
RWA tokenization usually means creating blockchain-based representations of real-world monetary claims or devices, with the purpose of bettering how property are issued, tracked, or transferred inside digital techniques.
“Kresus’s distinctive wallet safety expertise and RWA infrastructure will play a core function in advancing Hanwha Funding & Securities’ digital asset capabilities,” mentioned Son Jong-min, chief technique officer at Hanwha Funding & Securities.
He mentioned the agency will proceed collaborating with international expertise firms because it seeks to evolve right into a specialised digital asset securities agency.
The announcement matches a broader trade sample: established monetary establishments are displaying extra curiosity in managed, enterprise-ready blockchain use circumstances than in retail hypothesis.
Wallet expertise and tokenization platforms are more and more handled as constructing blocks, instruments that may be built-in into present product traces, somewhat than standalone shopper manufacturers.
