Buy & Swap Centrifuge (CFG)

From paper funds to onchain rails

Centrifuge's documentation opens with a clear mission: institutional-grade infrastructure for the future of finance, bringing efficiency, liquidity and composability to onchain asset management. As one of the first and largest tokenization platforms, it says, Centrifuge connects traditional capital markets to onchain rails.

The practical meaning is that a fund manager can issue a token representing a share in a real-world strategy — a credit fund, a bond portfolio, an index — and that token can move, settle and be used like any other onchain asset. Settlement that once took a day or more can happen in the time it takes to confirm a transaction.

The docs put the scale plainly: more than $2 billion in real-world assets have been tokenized through the platform, supported by more than 21 audits and deployments across 7 chains.^{[1], [2]}

Who is building on it

The list of institutions is what makes Centrifuge stand out. The documentation names Apollo, Janus Henderson and S&P Dow Jones Indices as institutions running onchain strategies on Centrifuge.

The official homepage adds more recent milestones. New York Life Investment Management has partnered with Centrifuge to tokenize a U.S. high-yield corporate bond strategy. Janus Henderson, SMT and Centrifuge have launched onchain vaults to manage the reserves behind SMT's loyalty programmes — an example of tokenization moving from simple fund wrappers into active portfolio management.

These are the kinds of firms that historically avoided public blockchains entirely. Their presence suggests the compliance and operational tooling has matured to a point where large managers are comfortable putting real strategies on it.^{[3], [4], [5]}

Three ways in

The homepage organises Centrifuge's offering for issuers into three paths. Build on Centrifuge lets a team launch tokenized products on audited infrastructure under its own brand. deRWA wraps institutional-grade assets into freely transferable tokens ready for use across DeFi. Anemoy, Centrifuge's asset management arm, offers full-service fund structuring, onchain operations and reporting.

For builders, the docs describe pre-built modules for tokenization, NAV calculation, investor management and multi-chain distribution, plus an SDK and API for custom frontends and automated operations — a way, the docs say, of leapfrogging months of development work.

Interoperability is the final piece. Centrifuge assets follow the ERC-4626 and ERC-7540 vault standards, so they plug into DeFi protocols the docs name directly: Sky, Aave Horizon, Morpho and Pendle. A tokenized treasury fund can therefore be used as collateral or yield source in lending and trading apps, not just held in a wallet.^{[6], [7], [8]}

Where CFG fits

The documentation lists Centrifuge Governance and The CFG Token as core sections of the protocol's getting-started material, positioning CFG as the token tied to how the network is governed.

Centrifuge also leads industry work beyond its own product. The homepage highlights the Tokenized Vault Foundation, which advances the token standards used for digital asset custody and yield generation, and a Real-World Asset Summit event series uniting capital-markets and crypto leaders.^{[9], [10]}

The token's exact economic role

The official pages reviewed confirm CFG's place in governance but did not load a detailed breakdown of supply, fee flows or staking mechanics during review. Those specifics are UNKNOWN from the sources used here.

They are not estimated here.^[9]