January 12, 2026

Zoniqx Expands Its Compliance-Native RWA Infrastructure with COTI's Programmable Privacy

We’re excited to announce the addition of programmable privacy capabilities to Zoniqx’s institutional-grade real-world asset tokenization infrastructure, enabled by COTI’s privacy technology.

This enhancement brings privacy-preserving functionality directly into Zoniqx’s compliance-native operating layer, supporting regulated, end-to-end on-chain asset workflows without compromising regulatory alignment.

Our first joint initiative will be to bring the world’s first privacy-enabled RWA assets on-chain, creating a secure and compliant on-ramp to the multi-trillion-dollar RWA economy.

Streamlined Tokenized Assets with Zoniqx

Zoniqx delivers institutional-grade, compliance-native RWA tokenization infrastructure designed to power the full lifecycle of regulated assets across multiple jurisdictions and chains. As the operating infrastructure for tokenized RWAs, Zoniqx removes fragmentation by embedding compliance at the token level, ensuring interoperability, cross-chain standards, and real-time regulatory alignment.

Zoniqx supports the tokenization of equity, debt, funds, real estate, and energy assets, while enforcing KYC, KYB, accreditation requirements, and jurisdiction-specific regulations through smart contract-integrated compliance.

Beyond issuance, Zoniqx enables distribution, liquidity, and secondary market access through institutional rails, broker-dealers, exchanges, DeFi connectivity, and fiat-to-crypto settlement capabilities, helping institutions confidently scale tokenized asset programs.

Powering Privacy for Regulated RWAs

We’re embedding COTI’s privacy layer, powered by Garbled Circuits, directly into Zoniqx’s Tokenization Platform as a Service. COTI’s GC Layer is up to 3,000x faster than alternatives, 250x lighter, fully EVM compatible, and cost-effective and scalable enough to meet institutional demands.

This integration addresses the key challenge in tokenized RWAs: Protecting sensitive financial data on public blockchains.

COTI’s programmable privacy will enable fully-customizable confidentiality needed for institutions and enterprises, while maintaining compliance.

  • Confidential issuance, transfers, and settlements with end-to-end encryption.
  • Privacy-focused compliance workflows for issuers and investors.
  • Selective disclosure to meet regs while protecting sensitive data.

We’ll start with a pilot program to launch the first privacy RWAs, followed by on-boarding key enterprises and institutions to launch on our shared infrastructure.

Why This Matters

The RWA market is estimated to hit $30-trillion by next year, with only $500 billion tokenized. Institutions will not move trillions in bonds, real estate, private credit, and repos on-chain without end-to-end privacy & confidentiality.

Together, COTI and Zoniqx enable trillions in assets from around the globe to move on-chain. Including providing the secure privacy MiCA/SEC standards, blending TradFi scale with Web3 speed.

“For real-world assets to scale on-chain, privacy and compliance must be first-class primitives, not afterthoughts. Partnering with COTI allows us to bring privacy-preserving infrastructure to regulated tokenization, enabling institutions to confidently move real value on-chain.” Prasanth Kalangi, Founder and CEO of Zoniqx.
Sanjeev Birari, Founder and CBO of Zoniqx added "By combining Zoniqx’s compliance-native RWA tokenization infrastructure with COTI’s high-scalable programmable privacy technology, this partnership enables regulated entities to move real value on-chain with confidence."
“Our core focus is to make privacy programmable, scalable, and compliant. Partnering with Zoniqx allows us to apply COTI’s pro-performance technology directly to institutional-grade RWA tokenization, where protecting sensitive financial data is essential for adoption.” Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI

About ZONIQX  

Zoniqx (pronounced "Zoh-nicks") is a global fintech leader headquartered in Silicon Valley, specializing in converting real-world assets into security tokens. Through its suite of innovations including Zoniqx zProtocol (DyCIST/ ERC-7518), zCompliance, zConnect, zPay, and zIdentity, Zoniqx powers the future of finance by enabling global liquidity, compliance automation, and Web3 integration. Learn more at www.zoniqx.com.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI. Learn more at https://coti.io/.