Mirae Asset Deepens Digital-Asset Push, Aims to Put All Products On-Chain at EastPoint: Seoul 2026

Greater utility in countries with weak interbank networks

Fintech and overseas users to drive future growth

Mirae Asset Global Investments is expanding its digital-asset business through a partnership with Ondo Finance, a global tokenized real-world asset, or RWA, platform. Starting with exchange-traded funds, the firm plans to broaden tokenization to a wider range of financial products.

Park Gu-bin, a managing director at Mirae Asset Global Investments, said at EastPoint: Seoul 2026, held at the Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas in Seoul on Sept. 28, that he wants to bring all of Mirae Asset's products on-chain, even if the goal is ambitious.

Mirae Asset is pursuing the tokenization of financial products through Global X, its overseas ETF manager. Fifteen US-listed Global X ETFs have been tokenized through Ondo Finance. Across Ondo's platform, 27 global ETFs are currently available on-chain. If the business expands into Europe, that number will exceed 30 by year-end.

Park cited changes in the regulatory environment, growth in related infrastructure and rising investor demand as reasons for moving into tokenization. Regulations in markets around the world have become more business-friendly than in the past, while infrastructure has matured, he said. Demand from investors seeking tokenized products is also beginning to emerge. Mirae Asset decided it needed hands-on experience tokenizing and managing ETFs rather than remaining at the discussion stage, he added.

The two companies said broader access is the biggest advantage of tokenized financial products. Their goal is to let investors buy financial products without time or geographic constraints while preserving the liquidity and settlement stability of traditional markets.

Mathieu de Vearné, head of global institutional business at Ondo Finance, said traditional financial markets have spent decades building deep liquidity and reliable settlement finality. Ondo Finance is trying to connect that liquidity with the accessibility of on-chain markets.

From an asset manager's perspective, the underlying ETF itself does not change, Park said, but the way investors access and use the product does. Tokenized ETFs can trade around the clock, be bought in fractional units and eventually be linked to other on-chain financial services. Using ETF tokens as collateral or connecting them to blockchain-based lending and trading services could create new opportunities not available in existing markets, he said.

Mirae Asset is building tokenization experience in markets where related systems are already in place, including the US, Hong Kong and Europe. It is using a wrapper structure that distributes Global X ETFs in token form, Hong Kong's digital twin model and interval funds managed by its US entity.

Mirae Asset approached tokenization from the outset from a global perspective, Park said. The company is expanding the business by applying experience and know-how built in one market to other regions.

The two companies plan to broaden their cooperation by combining Mirae Asset's product development and management capabilities with Ondo Finance's tokenization infrastructure and distribution network. Their plans go beyond tokenizing existing ETFs to jointly developing new types of on-chain financial products.

De Vearné said Ondo Finance has built a distribution network reaching more than 1 million cumulative users, as well as major global exchanges and wallets. The partnership is only the first step, and the company wants to create new products together going forward.

Park said Mirae Asset manages about $280 billion in assets and has product-structuring capabilities, a custody network and business foundations in major markets. Since neither side can build the market alone, combining the strengths of both companies is essential, he said.

Cho Mi-hyun / Jin Wook, Bloomingbit reporter