AEREDIUM Joins $5.4B Alba Bay RWA Infrastructure Initiative

Real estate tokenization has advanced rapidly. The infrastructure needed to support it hasn't.

While creating tokenized assets has become increasingly straightforward, enabling investors to buy them using familiar payment methods—and allowing developers to receive seamless settlement—remains one of the sector's biggest challenges.

AEREDIUM is looking to help solve that problem.

The blockchain infrastructure company has joined the Lava Tokenization Sandbox, an initiative led by Lava Foundation and Bretagne Holding Limited (BHL) that will use the $5.4 billion Alba Bay development in the Dominican Republic as a real-world environment for exploring how tokenized real estate could operate at institutional scale.

Rather than relying on a closed blockchain pilot, the initiative uses a live development project to evaluate how tokenization, payments and settlement infrastructure could work in practice.

Alba Bay Real Estate Prototype

Bringing Traditional Payments to Tokenized Assets

While interest in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization continues to accelerate, one major obstacle still limits broader adoption.

Investors often need to navigate unfamiliar blockchain networks or digital assets simply to purchase tokenized investments, while developers must manage multiple wallets, chains and treasury operations to receive funds.

The Lava Tokenization Sandbox is exploring whether those complexities can be removed.

Within the initiative, AEREDIUM is developing payment-agnostic settlement infrastructure that would allow investors to purchase tokenized assets using the payment methods they already use—including bank transfers, payment cards, stablecoins or cryptocurrencies.

Behind the scenes, the platform converts the incoming payment into the asset the developer chooses to receive through a single atomic settlement process, creating a secure and auditable transaction across banking systems, enterprise platforms and blockchain networks.

The goal is to simplify the buying experience while reducing operational overhead for developers adopting tokenized assets.

A Real Project Instead of a Pilot

At the center of the initiative is Alba Bay, a $5.4 billion master-planned coastal development in the Dominican Republic.

Rather than building infrastructure around hypothetical use cases, the partners are using a large-scale real estate project as the foundation for evaluating future payment and settlement models.

Alba Bay Real Estate Prototype

Each organization contributes a different layer of expertise. Bretagne Holding Limited provides the real-world development framework. Lava Foundation supplies decentralized RPC and API infrastructure that enables reliable blockchain connectivity without centralized points of failure.

AEREDIUM contributes the payment, security and settlement infrastructure designed to bridge traditional financial systems with blockchain-based assets.

Built for Institutional Scale

Alongside the collaboration, AEREDIUM highlighted the performance of its underlying blockchain infrastructure.

According to the company, its network has already processed more than 100 million blocks while supporting throughput of up to 250,000 transactions per second (TPS)—capacity designed to meet the demands of high-volume financial applications as tokenized assets move toward institutional adoption.

The company says its broader platform combines institutional-grade cryptographic security, proof-of-reserve verification, atomic settlement and verifiable payment trails into a unified infrastructure layer.

AEREDIUM has also filed three U.S. patent applications covering components of its security architecture, including its patent-pending AERKey technology, while continuing development of TRUSTCORE, a post-quantum security framework intended to strengthen future digital asset infrastructure.

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Building the Missing Layer

"We joined the sandbox to solve one of the biggest obstacles preventing tokenized assets from reaching institutional adoption: payments," said Albert Dadon, Founder and CEO of AEREDIUM.

"A buyer should be able to pay with any currency, on any rail, while the developer receives secure, auditable settlement in the asset they choose. Developers shouldn't have to manage fragmented treasuries or carry the compliance burden that comes with accepting multiple digital assets. That's exactly what we're testing through this initiative."

For Bretagne Holding Limited, the collaboration represents an opportunity to evaluate how blockchain infrastructure could reshape investment into large-scale developments.

"We believe emerging technologies will continue transforming how large-scale development projects are financed and accessed globally," said Yossi Abadi, Partner and CEO of Bretagne Holding Limited.

"Through this exploratory initiative, we are interested in understanding how future innovation may improve efficiency, transparency and accessibility within the broader real estate ecosystem."

Nimrod Knoller, Head of Foundation at Lava Foundation, said infrastructure will ultimately determine how successful tokenized assets become.

"Tokenized assets are only as reliable as the infrastructure beneath them. By combining decentralized infrastructure, settlement innovation and real-world development perspectives, we are exploring what future institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure may look like."

Beyond Tokenization

The partnership reflects a broader shift taking place across the RWA sector.

Early tokenization efforts focused primarily on putting assets on-chain. The next phase is increasingly centered on building the infrastructure that allows those assets to function as seamlessly as traditional financial products.

Through the Lava Tokenization Sandbox, AEREDIUM, Lava Foundation and Bretagne Holding Limited hope to demonstrate how payment-agnostic settlement, secure infrastructure and real-world interoperability could help bridge that gap.

The initiative is exploratory in nature and is intended solely to evaluate future infrastructure models and technological interoperability. No public token offering, securities issuance or formal tokenization program is being launched as part of the collaboration.