MANTRA, Inveniam CEOs outline the next 12 months of the RWA tokenization — Interview

MANTRA, Inveniam CEOs outline the next 12 months of the RWA tokenization — Interview
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2025-09-24

MANTRA, Inveniam CEOs outline the next 12 months of the RWA tokenization — Interview

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Asset tokenization is gaining momentum as investors and institutions search for trusted ways to bridge traditional finance with blockchain. MANTRA enters this conversation as a layer-1 network designed with real-world assets (RWAs) at its core.

MANTRA recently partnered with Inveniam, a decentralized data infrastructure provider for private market assets, to unlock RWAs in the United States and the UAE. The L1 blockchain will integrate Inveniam’s solutions to scale its private RWA offerings.

Cointelegraph talked to Inveniam CEO Pat O’Meara to find out more about the $20 million collaboration, while MANTRA CEO John Patrick Mullin reflects on targets for the RWA ecosystem over the next 12 months.

Cointelegraph: What due diligence red flags do you see in real-world asset (RWA) projects, and how did MANTRA clear them?

Pat O’Meara: We hired a renowned private investigation firm and worked with two global AM100 law firms to do our diligence. What we found was shocking: market participants and core infrastructure providers who are unbelievably bad actors shorted MANTRA while apparently breaching both contracts, regulations and the law.

As the appropriate authorities are involved, we believe this will all come into the public domain over the next 12 months. We are doubling down with the best exchanges and market makers to ensure this does not happen again. We love so much about the team, ecosystem and technology foundation as a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for RWAs. We love that MANTRA holds a VASP license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA).

CT: How will you allocate the new funding across protocol development, compliance, ecosystem growth and liquidity?

John Patrick Mullin: The funding will be used company wide, with a focus upon scaling MANTRA’s infrastructure, operations, talent, ecosystem activity and accelerating our position as a prominent layer-1 blockchain for RWAs. The investment will also strengthen MANTRA’s capacity to innovate.

CT: What are your 12-month targets for the RWA ecosystem, issuers and first asset classes?

John Patrick Mullin: Last week, MANTRA became the first blockchain to support both EVM and CosmWasm smart contracts natively, thereby making it the first true MultiVM layer 1 built specifically for RWAs. Coupled with MANTRA Finance’s VASP license from VARA, the upgrade further strengthens MANTRA’s position to compliantly capitalize upon the expanding tokenization market.

To date, it’s been a big win for developers as well as an important step for those seeking to seamlessly bring their Ethereum projects across to MANTRA with zero adjustments.

Full EVM compatibility will then assist us in opening our ecosystem to EVM DApps, including a RWA launchpad, bridges, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), lending/borrowing, perpetual trading, yield aggregators and more.

This will drive the building of composability around RWA offerings, including the launch of “real yield” coins — yield-bearing tokens and vaults backed by RWAs that are composable across major DeFi protocols and a secondary liquidity marketplace.

CT: How will you launch products in the UAE and expand them to the US under current rules?

Pat O’Meara: We will utilize our deep and expanding ecosystem to actualize the entire UAE to US corridor. This includes UAE, EU, UK, Swiss and US entities for 24/7 trading of digital securities and RWAs. This is what will drive institutional adoption.

CT: What could slow RWA adoption at scale, and how will MANTRA mitigate those risks?

John Patrick Mullin: Regulatory uncertainty and unreliable data are significant risks when it comes to tokenization; however, our partnership with Inveniam addresses both of these.

MANTRA’s VASP license from Dubai’s VARA to operate as a Virtual Asset Exchange, as well as to provide Broker-Dealer and Management and Investment Services, provides tremendous regulatory clarity. It positions us to drive compliant RWA tokenization from a globally recognized jurisdiction.

While most tokenization projects focus on issuance, Inveniam embeds data integrity, real-time reporting and lifecycle management from inception. This brings ongoing trust, surveillance and automation crucial for institutional adoption and compliance.

Together, compliant operations and reliable data will build confidence, speed up RWA adoption and usher in a new phase of real-world assets.

Cointelegraph: What specific milestones will prove the $20 million investment is working in the next 12–18 months?

Pat O’Meara: We invested due to a strong entry point into a great chain, team and ecosystem. Success is measured by token price, and we’ll spend the next 12-18 months enhancing function, governance and expanding the MANTRA network to drive usage, revenue and institutional adoption.

This will be evident in private market data via Inveniam, TVL on MANTRA dashboards and third-party trackers. In October, we will launch an AI agent on MANTRA for validating asset metadata, ensuring auditable, traceable and attributable AI. Tokenized ETFs will trade in the EU and UAE, with US availability pending the US CLARITY Act, alongside our new layer 2.

CT: What’s the “aha” moment you want a first-time issuer or investor to feel on MANTRA this year?

John Patrick Mullin: We believe the “aha” moment will be driven by experience, regardless of whether they’re an investor, developer or issuer, with experience being defined and driven by accessibility, simplicity, ease of use and security. For an issuer or investor from traditional finance to come across and not realise they’re interacting with a DeFi product, that’s a huge moment for them and a milestone for us.

CT: How do you plan to utilize this deal to provide a better experience for people and businesses in the UAE and the US?

John Patrick Mullin: Our partnership with Inveniam leverages the UAE’s forward-looking regulations and crypto liquidity with the strong investment base and appetite found in the US. Additionally, Inveniam has tremendous regulatory experience in the US, along with a strategic alliance with Rialto Markets that’s focused upon corporate capital raises and the trading of private market securities. These elements, integrations and more (yet to be announced) will bring new economic opportunities to investors, issuers and operators seeking a bridge between the UAE and US capital markets.

We’re looking forward to further diving into the regional and international opportunities that exist for leaders driving the next wave of markets, trading, tokenization and deep financial innovation next month at Agentic., our two-day summit in Abu Dhabi. Additionally, the Agentic. pitchfest will offer builders, startups, and future-thinkers the opportunity to present to over 300 international investors, asset managers, and financial technologists. It presents the opportunity to win up to $25,000 and gain entry to the RWAccelerator program’s next cohort.

CT: What’s the single real-world proof point in 2025 that will make RWA skeptics say, “Okay, this is working”?

Pat O’Meara: The end game is financialization of data-rich, low-frequency trading assets and funds, and in particular, interval funds with peer-to-peer enhanced liquidity and real-time price discovery mechanisms for real estate, private credit, infrastructure and private equity. This will happen with real-time agentic surveillance of the underlying real-world assets, with proof of origin, proof-of-stake and proof of process of data to understand how those assets perform in real time or near real time (daily surveillance).

Connecting this data to instruments that trade 24/7 digitally across jurisdictions in a fully regulatory-compliant manner is the game-changer. You will see this first with active and passively managed ETFs trading onchain across jurisdictions, backed by Inveniam-anchored data and AI-driven compliance in 2025. Tokenization has moved from pilot to mainstream infrastructure. Now, let’s watch the adoption curve together with an eye on the MANTRA token price.

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