The walls between Wall Street and DeFi keep thinning. KAIO, backed by Brevan Howard and BlackRock Crypto, is deploying over $200 Mn in tokenized fund strategies onto the SEI network (SEI).
It’s one of the clearest signs yet that real-world asset tokenization is slowly materializing. For
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, it’s a push into the big leagues of on-chain finance, and for KAIO’s clients, it’s a new path to move traditional capital into DeFi without leaving the guardrails of compliance behind.
Here’s what’s next for SEI:
BlackRock Crypto: Institutional Capital Finds Its Way to SEI
KAIO’s expansion introduces tokenized versions of feeder funds from BlackRock, Brevan Howard, Hamilton Lane, and Laser Digital. These instruments allow institutional and accredited investors to handle subscriptions, redemptions, and reporting entirely onchain — a fundamental shift toward programmable capital markets.
“By using the Sei Network, we’re bringing composable access to leading fund strategies entirely onchain,” said Olivier Dang, COO of KAIO, calling the integration a “foundation for real-time, programmable financial infrastructure built for the next era of capital markets.”
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Justin Barlow, Executive Director of the Sei Development Foundation, described the partnership as “another important step toward Sei becoming the institutional settlement layer for all digital assets.”
The integration comes just months after Securitize launched the $112 Mn Apollo Diversified Credit Fund on Sei, confirming the network’s growing reputation for high-speed, low-latency financial execution.
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Sei’s numbers are starting to look serious. DeFi Llama data shows its total value locked climbing past $530 Mn, one of the fastest growth streaks of any layer-1 this year. Daily transactions now top 1.6 Mn, with over 600,000 active wallets fueling the rise, much of it tied to institutional flows and DeFi deployments.
Zoom out, and the timing couldn’t be sharper. Boston Consulting Group estimates tokenized real-world assets could hit $16 Tn by 2030. KAIO’s integration drops Sei right into that current.
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The SEI Equation: Wall Street Meets Web3
Institutional flow means one thing for SEI: revenue. More on-chain activity drives staking, burns, and liquidity, tightening supply as adoption rises. It’s the same playbook that lifted Solana from niche to mainstream during its last cycle.
As one analyst at the Sei Development Foundation put it this week: “We’re building the rails for tokenized capital markets, not another trading casino.”
If they’re right, this may be the beginning of Sei’s institutional breakout, and far from its peak.
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Key Takeaways
- The walls between Wall Street and DeFi keep thinning. KAIO, backed by Brevan Howard and BlackRock Crypto is investing in SEI Crypto.
- As for SEI, more on-chain activity drives staking, burns, and liquidity, tightening supply as adoption rises.
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