Project Guardian: enterprise blockchain infrastructure for institutional DeFi and tokenized asset workflows

Kaleido built the underlying DLT network infrastructure powering MAS Project Guardian's exploration of tokenized assets, composable financial primitives, and institutional-grade DeFi for regulated financial institutions.
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Background

Project Guardian is a Monetary Authority of Singapore initiative exploring how regulated financial institutions can participate in institutional DeFi workflows using tokenized assets. The Guardian Wholesale Network, developed as the core infrastructure layer of the initiative, was designed to support composable finance across a broad range of multi-asset, multi-currency transactions including DvP and PvP mechanisms, enabling next-generation customizable financial solutions with programmable privacy in a single environment.

Challenges

The network needed to support a broad range of multi-asset, multi-currency, multi-member transactions simultaneously across tokenized cash, FX, fixed income, and asset and wealth management, while maintaining programmable privacy and meeting the governance, performance, and reliability requirements of participating regulated global financial institutions.

Kaleido's role

Kaleido provided and managed the blockchain network infrastructure alongside digital assets and middleware tooling that allowed MAS and participating institutions to experiment with tokenized deposits, on-chain asset representations, and programmable financial workflows.

Kaleido powered the GWN live industry testnet, delivering a multi-member, multi-asset, and multi-currency network enabling transactions across tokenized cash and FX, fixed income, and asset and wealth management in a single environment with privacy enabled, delivering cross-use case composability on a business-ready platform for commercial asset tokenization use cases.

DvP + PvP
Settlement mechanisms live
Both delivery vs payment and payment vs payment settlement demonstrated across multiple asset classes in a single composable network
Live
Industry testnet
Business-ready platform with 6+ entities and 15 roles tested through end-to-end transactions on the Guardian Wholesale Network
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Asset classes supported
Tokenized cash, FX, fixed income, and asset and wealth management transacting composably in a single network
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