Animoca-backed NUVA brings $19 billion of tokenized real-world assets onto Ethereum DeFi rails!

NUVA, a new Ethereum-based marketplace developed by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, is bridging roughly $19 billion worth of tokenized real-world assets — originating on Figure Technologies' Provenance blockchain — into decentralized finance. The platform launches with two flagship products: nvYLDS, a Treasury-linked yield vault tied to Figure's SEC-regulated stablecoin YLDS (over $500 million in supply), and nvPRIME, a token backed by Figure's $18.4 billion home equity line of credit portfolio currently yielding more than 7%.

CEO Anthony Moro, a former BNY executive, frames NUVA as the distribution layer the RWA sector has been missing. Users deposit stablecoins into vaults and receive ERC-20 tokens representing ownership in the underlying assets — tokens that can then be traded, lent, or posted as collateral across Ethereum DeFi protocols. "Nobody really has that unified global…