Black Manta Capital Partners (“BMCP”) – a MiFID II licenced broker-dealer, specializing in regulated asset tokenization across Europe and beyond – announced two significant developments: it has become an official node operator for the Canton Network and has launched the first-of-its-kind real estate bond in Europe on the Canton blockchain. This premier issuance, a bond for storage service provider BoxDepo, is backed by a high-occupancy, unmanned storage facility in Italy, setting a new standard for bringing real-world assets onto institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure.

This partnership marks a significant milestone in the digital asset space, combining BMCP’s deep expertise in every technical, financial, and legal aspect of asset and security tokenization with the Canton Blockchain’s unique ability to provide institutional-grade privacy, compliance, and scalability.

As the first MiFID II-regulated tokenization platform licensed by Germany’s BaFin and the firm behind the first regulated cross-border distribution of a tokenized security in Europe, the BoxDepo real estate bond issuance directly applies BMCP’s long standing know-how, with the Canton Network’s infrastructure providing the essential foundation to drive the next wave and future of tokenized assets.

A Strategic Step into an Institutional Ecosystem

By becoming a node operator on Canton, Black Manta Capital Partners joins a distinguished group of global financial players already participating in the network – including Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon and BNP Paribas.

The Canton Network’s architecture is uniquely designed to meet the standards of regulated financial institutions. It combines the privacy and security they need with the advantages of a decentralized ledger, such as near-instant settlement and fractional ownership.

This approach is a game-changer for the digital asset landscape, providing tailored solutions to the world’s largest and most important financial infrastructure providers and for BMCP’s future issuances.

The First Real Estate-backed Bond on Canton in Europe

Black Manta Capital Partners is launching its premier tokenization project on the Canton Network with the issuance of a tokenized, real estate-backed bond for the self-storage provider BoxDepo.

Investors can access a tokenized real-world asset structured as a bond and issued and managed as a digital security on the Canton Network. The bond is secured by an existing, revenue-generating storage property fully owned by BoxDepo in Nuoro, Italy. Proceeds from the blockchain-based investment will directly finance the expansion of the company, which already operates eleven facilities across Italy and has another eight under development.

Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Asset, commented: “The issuance of the BoxDepo bond on the Canton Network marks a pivotal step in bringing real-world assets into an institutional blockchain ecosystem. Black Manta Capital Partners’ expertise, combined with Canton’s ability to deliver privacy, compliance, and interoperability at scale, demonstrates how tokenization is moving from promise to reality across global financial markets.”

Alexander Rapatz, CEO and Founding Partner of Black Manta Capital Partners, added: “Our collaboration with the Canton Network allows us to leverage their unique on-chain privacy features to create a product that is both compliant and highly efficient. The issuance of the BoxDepo real estate bond on the Canton Blockchain is a testament to our commitment to innovation and our vision of unlocking new levels of liquidity, confidence, security and efficiency for institutional investors.”

Source: Digital Asset