COTI partners with Lanstellar with aim to advance real-world asset (RWA) adoption, enabling traditionally illiquid assets to be used as DeFi collateral.
Real-world assets (RWAs) are the largest and most exciting trend in DeFi, projected to become a $30 trillion sector by 2030. COTI has gone all-in on RWAs, understanding that privacy is fundamental to widespread institutional adoption. Our latest partnership with Nigeria-based Lanstellar underscores why RWAs are such a powerful development, bridging the gap between institutional capital demand and DeFi liquidity at scale.
Lanstellar: AI-Powered Multi-Chain RWA Liquidity
Lanstellar is an Al-powered liquidity protocol that enables instant stablecoin loans against real-world assets on multiple blockchain platforms. Our partnership extends Lanstellar’s reach to COTI, a leader in the RWA space and the ideal platform for building out their infrastructure and liquidity.
Real-world assets include stocks, bonds, commodities, and other traditional investments, which trade openly on global markets. However, it is also possible to tokenize other assets, such as real estate, diamonds, paintings, and more exotic instruments like accounts payable and royalty streams. Once tokenized, these unusual assets can be efficiently valued by blockchain protocols, and used as DeFi collateral — freeing up otherwise inaccessible liquidity. Lanstellar allows users to take out loans against tokenized assets, using AI to power its credit-scoring model.
“This partnership with COTI is a pivotal step for Lanstellar. By integrating with their blockchain protocol, we’re not just expanding our technological capabilities, we’re building the secure, scalable and compliant foundation necessary to connect global DeFi liquidity with the real-world financial needs of Africa. It marks a new era for financial inclusion, powered by the secure and trusted infrastructure of COTI.” — Femi Adegolu, Creator of Lanstellar.
Lanstellar’s Roadmap
Over the coming weeks, Lanstellar will finalize their smart contracts and AI credit model, before launching in beta on COTI L2. They will then seek to secure initial liquidity for the protocol, and aim to launch the platform with a number of pilot loans.
All being well from Q2 next year, Lanstellar will focus on growth, optimizing the platform and its multi-chain functionality, and implementing a user-friendly dashboard for microfinance banks (MFBs): companies licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide financial services such as savings and deposits, loans, domestic funds transfer, and various other services.
The third phase, from mid-2027, will see Lanstellar aiming to scale to become a dominant player in the RWA space, growing from $50 million to over $200 million in AUM. Ultimately, the goal is to become a highly liquid and active ecosystem of partners and users, powered by a robust and liquid protocol.
Leveraging COTI
COTI is the ideal platform for Lanstellar’s AI-powered RWA lending protocol. COTI’s infrastructure not only offers robust and optional privacy, but is fast and high-scale. Every time verification is completed or data is recorded by Lanstellar, this will require an on-chain operation, and the steady stream of transactions must be executed securely and efficiently.
Lanstellar’s growth will provide increasing value to COTI’s validator ecosystem. There are further benefits to COTI in terms of reputation and trust, since the collaboration will showcase a successful model for bridging traditional centralized finance (CeFi) institutions with the DeFi space, and providing verifiable, on-chain proof of asset verification — demonstrating the benefits of blockchain infrastructure, as well as the utility of on-chain assets.
Find out more by following Lanstellar on X and LinkedIn, and visit Lanstellar.com.