Singapore’s largest bank expands its blockchain strategy by offering tokenized structured notes on Ethereum Public Blockchain, in one step that extends access to complex financial products once reserved for its private clients.
DBS said on Thursday in a release that it will distribute the instruments through local Singapore Excanses Addx, Digift and Hydrax and marks its first time offering tokenized products to accredited and institutional investors outside their own customer base.
The debut product is a crypto -tone participation note that pays out cash as digital asset prices rise while limiting exposure to downward.
Structured notes traditionally have minimum investments of $ 100,000 and are often adapted, making them non-fun.
By tokenizing each instrument to $ 1,000 units, DBS said the securities become fungal and easier to act and provides greater flexibility for portfolio management.
The demand for instruments has been strong as investors seek to incorporate advanced investment strategies into their digital asset portfolios, the bank said in a release.
In the first half of 2025, DBS clients executed over $ 1 billion trades involving these instruments with trading volumes that grew nearly 60% from 1st quarter 2025 to 2nd quarter of 2025.
The bank sees this as particularly useful for family offices and professional investors who have grown rapidly in Singapore. The number of single -family offices in the city state peaked 2,000 in 2024, an increase of 43% year by year, it said in a release.
The move comes as Singapore elaborates his role as a hub for tokenized funding. The monetary authority in Singapore (MAS) have provided industrial pilots through Project GuardianTokenization of assets explores across fixed income, eg and foundations, while developing cross -border infrastructure such as Global Layer One to bring together global liquidity.
DBS has been one of the most active banks participating in these initiatives, often using permitted blockchains for pilots before expanding to public chains.
While the original focus is on crypto-connected notes, DBS said it will also tokenize more traditional equity and credit-bound notes.
“Asset -tokenization is the next limit to the infrastructure for financial markets,” said Li Zhen, head of currency and digital assets at DBS.
“Our first tokenized product addresses the growing institutional appetite for digital assets. With this initiative, a wider segment of investors can now utilize our digital asset ecosystem to build exposure to the asset class,” Zhen continued.
