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Future FinTech Group’s Hong Kong subsidiary has struck a multi-faceted partnership with HHEX to fast-track the build-out of Web3 services and compliant tokenized assets. The agreement outlines a coordinated plan to launch tokenized funds, establish a dedicated RWA technology center, and jointly expand distribution to professional and institutional investors.
In the second sentence of this paragraph, the story adds essential context: Future FinTech Group Inc. (NASDAQ: FTFT) is a comprehensive financial and digital technology service provider, while HHEX is a trading platform specializing in Real World Assets (RWA) transactions with a leadership team drawn from prior digital asset exchange founding groups. The collaboration targets the growing convergence of decentralized finance and traditional financing needs as institutions increasingly evaluate tokenization for capital efficiency and diversification.
The companies say the tie-up transitions FTFT’s RWA strategy from exploration to execution, combining HHEX’s blockchain infrastructure and tokenization stack with FTFT’s competencies in asset selection, product design, risk control, and regulatory alignment. By unifying technology and go-to-market capabilities, the parties aim to accelerate compliant offerings that connect on-chain rails with off-chain assets in a way that scales for institutions and high-net-worth investors.
takeaway: The pact is built around three pillars—launching a compliant multi-asset tokenized fund, standing up an integrated RWA Business Center System, and pooling client networks—to compress time-to-market for institutional-grade RWA products.
At the product layer, FTFT and HHEX intend to co-develop a compliant, multi-asset RWA tokenized fund. FTFT will lead investment selection, structuring, regulatory compliance, and risk oversight, while HHEX provides the tokenization platform and blockchain infrastructure to mint and administer the instruments on-chain. The intent is to give qualified investors access to diversified exposures with on-chain settlement, auditability, and programmable controls.
At the infrastructure layer, the parties plan to create an integrated RWA Business Center System designed to ingest, model, and tokenize a wide variety of traditional assets. Target asset types include real estate fund shares, supply chain finance receivables, and bonds, each with distinct data, lifecycle, and regulatory requirements. Standardizing these flows into a common tokenization fabric is core to achieving repeatability across issuers and jurisdictions.
At the distribution layer, the cooperation envisions resource sharing between FTFT’s professional investor base and HHEX’s network of compliant institutions and digital asset investors. The goal is to broaden market coverage while keeping onboarding aligned with jurisdictional rules on suitability, disclosures, and investor qualifications—critical in a segment where compliance is the primary gating factor for scale.
Leadership Commentary: Execution, Compliance, and Scale
takeaway: Executives from both firms frame the partnership as a practical bridge from traditional finance to tokenized markets, emphasizing compliance-first design and institutional workflows.
“Building on a solid technical foundation and industry insight, HHEX drives innovation in technological advancement, product experience, and ecosystem development. Through continuous breakthroughs in infrastructure development, we deliver professional, secure, and trustworthy digital asset services to users. In our partnership with FTFT, we plan to deploy critical resources to accelerate the co-development of our technology platform and the implementation of our first-phase flagship products. Our shared vision is to build a compliant and efficient bridge connecting traditional finance with digital assets,” said Cecilia Yang, CEO of HHEX.
“Our strategic collaboration with HHEX marks a key step in optimizing the structure of our business operating groups. As the core platform for executing our Web3 strategy, HHEX will coordinate all Web3 and crypto-related operations with FTFT, integrating crypto assets and Web3 resources to capitalize on what we view as a historic opportunity in the industry. Through this organizational restructuring, we will strengthen crypto asset allocation, incubate Web3 projects, and build a content ecosystem while upholding principles of compliance, transparency and long-term sustainability,” said Hu Li, CEO of FTFT.
“Our partnership with HHEX reflects our Board’s full endorsement of our RWA strategy and represents a pivotal step in establishing our Web3 capabilities. We are confident that the synergy of cutting-edge technology, comprehensive regulatory compliance, and strategic capital will grant us a distinct competitive edge in the emerging digital asset marketplace, and deliver sustainable value for our shareholders,” concluded FTFT CEO Hu Li.
Why RWA Now: From Concept to Scalable Implementation
takeaway: With Web3 tooling maturing and policy clarity improving, tokenization is moving beyond pilots—RWA products are increasingly engineered for auditability, cash flow fidelity, and operational resilience.
Tokenized real-world assets have become a focal point for institutions seeking yield, collateral flexibility, and settlement efficiency, but scaling requires standardized issuance, disclosure, and investor protections. The FTFT–HHEX roadmap addresses these pain points by combining a regulated product wrapper with blockchain-native lifecycle management and controls for transfers, redemptions, and reporting.
The planned RWA Technology Center is intended to function as an internal “factory” that codifies repeatable workflows across asset classes—mapping real-world agreements into on-chain representations while preserving the legal, accounting, and risk characteristics required by allocators and auditors. This is the layer where compliance automation and data provenance determine whether tokenization can operate at institutional scale.
Distribution strategy is equally pivotal: matching qualified demand with compliant supply is often the limiting reagent. By aligning FTFT’s traditional finance channels with HHEX’s digital asset investor base, the partnership seeks to lower acquisition costs, raise conversion rates, and reduce operational friction in onboarding and ongoing KYC/AML maintenance cycles.
The Team Behind HHEX: Exchange DNA and Systems Engineering
takeaway: HHEX’s founding team brings prior exchange-building experience and high-concurrency systems expertise—useful for RWA platforms that must reconcile institutional uptime expectations with blockchain settlement.
HHEX cites a leadership cohort with roots in early exchange formation and large-scale web infrastructure. Founder Soisson Zhang, a Northeastern University alum with stints at Microsoft Research Asia and Alibaba, launched the JuCoin.com Bitcoin exchange in 2013 (later rebranded as Ju.com). Other core members bring global platform operations and market development experience.
On the engineering side, HHEX emphasizes architecture talent drawn from major exchanges, specializing in distributed systems designed for throughput, availability, and fault tolerance. In the RWA context, these capabilities translate into the ability to handle complex token lifecycle events, multi-jurisdictional compliance rules, and high-integrity data synchronization between off-chain registries and on-chain states.
For FTFT, which conducts brokerage and investment banking services in Hong Kong and operates supply chain trading and finance businesses in China, the partnership is intended to unlock a faster route from traditional product expertise to tokenized distribution—while anchoring each step to regulatory expectations across markets.
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