Austin, Texas, July 7, 2026, Chainwire
IridiumThe blockchain infrastructure company that builds the security and settlement layer for tokenized assets, today announced that it has joined… Lava Sandbox Coding together with Lava Foundation and Bretagne Holding Limited (BHL). Together, the two companies will explore how future tokenized asset infrastructure can interact with both traditional and digital financial systems, using… Alba Baya major large-scale development project in the Dominican Republic, as a real-world innovation framework within which to evaluate future infrastructure models.
As real-world asset (RWA) tokenization accelerates, one challenge remains slowing institutional adoption: payments and settlement. Creating a token is relatively simple. Enabling investors to purchase token assets using the currency and payment method they already own, while allowing developers to have secure and compliant settlement without managing fragmented digital asset vaults, remains one of the biggest infrastructure gaps in the industry.
The collaborative sandbox initiative is designed to explore how these challenges can eventually be addressed through emerging infrastructure.
As part of the initiative, participants are exploring potential real-world applications using the Gulf of Alba as one of several reference environments to evaluate future infrastructure models. Unlike traditional tokenization projects, the sandbox is built around real capital-backed development, allowing participants to test tokenization, payments, and settlement under real-world conditions rather than in isolated blockchain environments.
In beta testing, AEREDIUM is testing a non-payment based settlement infrastructure designed to simplify how tokenized real estate is purchased while removing operational complexity for developers.
Each partner contributes a distinct layer to the initiative.
Bretagne Holding Limited contributes development expertise and provides a real framework for the project against which future innovation models can be evaluated.
The Lava Network provides the decentralized RPC and API infrastructure that powers blockchain communication without a single point of failure.
AEREDIUM provides a payment and settlement infrastructure that allows future market participants to interact with token asset infrastructure using a wide range of payment methods, including bank transfers, payment cards, stablecoins or digital assets across multiple blockchain networks. Through atomic settlement, the platform converts the buyer’s payment into the asset the developer chooses to receive, delivering a single, secure, and auditable transaction across blockchain networks, banking systems, and enterprise platforms.
For developers, this removes one of the biggest operational barriers to adopting tokenized assets. Instead of managing fragmented vaults across multiple chains and digital assets, developers get clean settlement while maintaining a verifiable payment path and reducing the operational and compliance complexity associated with accepting digital asset payments.
In addition to settlement, AEREDIUM’s infrastructure combines institutional-grade cryptographic security, proof-of-reserve verification, verifiable payment paths, and atomic settlement into a unified platform for token assets. The company has filed three US patent applications covering core components of its security architecture, including its patent-pending AERKey technology, and is developing TRUSTCORE, a post-quantum security framework designed to power future digital asset infrastructure.
“We joined the Sandbox to solve one of the biggest hurdles preventing token assets from reaching institutional adoption: payments,” said Albert Dadone, Founder and CEO of AEREDIUM. “The buyer should be able to pay in any currency, on any rail, while the developer gets secure, auditable settlement in the asset of their choice. Developers should not have to manage fragmented treasuries or bear the compliance burden that comes with accepting multiple digital assets. This is exactly what we are experiencing with this initiative.”
Yossi Ebadi, Partner and CEO of Bretagne Holding Limited, said: “At BHL, we believe that emerging technologies will continue to change how large-scale development projects are financed and accessed globally. Through this exploratory initiative, we are interested in understanding how future innovation can improve efficiency, transparency and accessibility within the broader real estate ecosystem.”
“Tokenized assets are only as reliable as the infrastructure underneath them,” said Nimrod Noller, head of foundation at the Lava Foundation. “By combining decentralized infrastructure, settlement innovation, and real-world development perspectives, we explore what institutional-level digital asset infrastructure might look like in the future.”
The partners believe the initiative represents the next phase of RWA adoption. While the first generation of tokenization focused on bringing assets on-chain, the next generation will rely on infrastructure that makes it easy to buy, pay for, and settle tokenized assets like traditional financial products.
Through the Lava Tokenization Sandbox initiative, led by the Lava Foundation and BHL, AEREDIUM aims to demonstrate how paymentless settlement can remove one of the final infrastructure barriers to institutional-level adoption of real-world assets.
The partners believe the initiative shifts the RWA conversation from token issuance to the infrastructure that real ownership actually needs: secure settlement, verifiable payments, and a purchasing experience that works with the money people already own.
This initiative is exploratory in nature and is intended only to evaluate potential future infrastructure models and technology interoperability. No public offering, securities sale, token issuance, or formal tokenization structure is currently being initiated through this collaboration.
About Brittany Holdings Limited
Brittany Holdings Limited is the developer behind Alba Bay, a master-planned real estate development in the Dominican Republic spanning approximately 40 million square metres. The company’s broader vision includes a multi-billion-dollar development initiative designed to create long-term economic growth and investment opportunities in the region.
About Lava Network
The Lava Network provides a decentralized RPC and API infrastructure for blockchain applications, enabling reliable, censorship-resistant communication across multiple blockchain ecosystems without any single point of failure. Its infrastructure supports developers, enterprises, and blockchain ecosystems including Fireblocks, NEAR, Arbitrum, and Starknet.
About iridium
Aeredium is a blockchain infrastructure company that builds the security and settlement layer for token assets. Its technology combines enterprise-grade cryptographic security, proof-of-reserve verification, verifiable payment paths, and atomic settlement to connect blockchain networks, banking systems, and enterprise platforms.
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This article is not intended to provide financial advice. Educational purposes only.
