Moody’s Scores is rolling out its credit score rankings to Solana (SOL), permitting issuers of tokenized bonds and different fixed-income securities to embed the agency’s assessments immediately into blockchain-based belongings.
The transfer, announced Wednesday in partnership with Solana-focused tokenization specialist Alphaledger, expands Moody’s Token Integration Engine (TIE) to a significant public blockchain after its first deployment earlier this yr on the institutional-focused Canton Community (CC).
The transfer builds on a pilot challenge completed final yr, once they demonstrated how municipal bond rankings may very well be hooked up on to tokenized securities on Solana.
Tokenization — the method of making blockchain-based variations of conventional belongings — has change into one of many fastest-growing areas of finance. Asset managers together with BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Apollo have launched tokenized funds and credit score merchandise, whereas Boston Consulting Group and Ripple estimate the market might attain $18.9 trillion by 2033.
As tokenization positive aspects traction, monetary companies are more and more targeted on bringing the infrastructure surrounding conventional belongings onto blockchain rails. That features possession information, pricing information, compliance data and credit score rankings.
