Nuva Digital, a Web3 real‑world asset (RWA) infrastructure company, has raised $5.2 million in seed funding to build out Nuva Finance, a marketplace that lets users earn yield directly from tokenized real‑world asset vaults. The equity seed round, Nuva’s first external financing, was led by Morgan Creek Digital with participation from Ulu Ventures and strategic backers including Animoca Brands, which has been co‑incubating the project. As part of the round, Morgan Creek partner Sachin Jaitly will join Nuva’s board alongside Mike Cagney of Figure Technologies and Yat Siu of Animoca Brands. Nuva positions itself as a non‑custodial “unified distribution layer” for institutional‑grade RWA yield, aggregating curated vaults backed by assets such as home‑equity lines (HELOCs) and other credit from partners like Figure. Users will be able to deposit stablecoins (e.g., USDC/USDT) into on‑chain vaults via Nuva Finance, receive liquid vault tokens (nvAssets) representing their proportional share, and have yield reflected over time in the rising price of those tokens, which remain composable across DeFi. The new capital will fund expansion of this multi‑chain marketplace, additional issuer integrations, institutional tooling, and preparation for a NUVA utility token launch, as the project seeks to scale TVL and user adoption in the growing tokenized RWA segment. The deal underscores continuing investor interest in RWA tokenization infrastructure, where platforms aim to connect crypto liquidity directly with off‑chain assets while providing on‑chain proof of reserves, no minimum deposits, and no lockups. For Morgan Creek Digital and Animoca Brands, the investment extends their broader strategies around digital asset infrastructure and Web3 capital markets, while for Nuva it marks a transition from incubation and early development toward commercial rollout and competition with other RWA yield marketplaces focused on bringing traditional credit, real estate, and other financial instruments on chain. "entities":["Nuva Digital","Nuva Finance","NUVA (platform / prospective utility token)","Morgan Creek Digital","Animoca Brands","Nuva Labs (formerly Provenance Blockchain Labs)","Ulu Ventures","Figure Technologies","Figure","Sachin Jaitly","Mike Cagney","Yat Siu","BitJie / Provenance-based infrastructure","RWA (real-world assets)","USDC","USDT"]}`'}์

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