AEREDIUM is an innovative blockchain infrastructure company acting as the trust layer for institutional settlement. It leverages advanced technologies, including atomic settlement, to connect blockchain networks, banking systems, and enterprise platforms.
Lava Network is an infrastructure provider for blockchain applications. It focuses on API and RPC infrastructure, which are essential for blockchain interactions such as trading, swapping, and staking. Lava Network’s infrastructure is already embedded in well-known projects, such as Fireblocks, NEAR, and Arbitrum.
Bretagne Holding Limited is the company behind the 40 million-square-meter Alba Bay real estate development in the Dominican Republic. As part of the company’s multi-billion-dollar development, it will focus on generating long-term economic growth and investment opportunities within the region.
On July 7, 2026, AEREDIUM announced that it would be joining Lava Foundation and Bretagne Holding Limited (BHL) as part of the Lava Tokenization Sandbox. The companies will collaborate to explore and test tokenized asset infrastructure within a real-world environment via Alba Bay.
The Challenges of Payments and Settlement
The tokenized Real-World-Asset (RWA) industry averages $11 billion in daily volume. Despite significant demand and developer focus, major infrastructure gaps remain and hinder broader institutional adoption.
Developers can create and launch a token with relative ease, and new systems designed to simplify the process further are being regularly unveiled. However, the payments and settlement infrastructure is struggling to keep pace.
It’s difficult to balance security and convenience. Consumers want to use currencies and payment methods native to them, while developers must prioritize secure and compliant settlement that doesn’t involve fragmented digital asset treasuries. In current systems, these objectives rarely align, leading to a significant shortfall.
Discussing the importance of payment infrastructure for tokenized assets, Nimrod Knoller, Head of Foundation at Lava Foundation, had this to say:
“Tokenized assets are only as reliable as the infrastructure beneath them. By combining decentralized infrastructure, settlement innovation, and real-world development perspectives, we are exploring what future institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure may look like.”
Addressing Challenges Using Alba Bay
AEREDIUM, Lava Foundation, and Bretagne Holding Limited are working collaboratively within a tokenization sandbox to explore payments and settlement challenges and develop potential infrastructure-based solutions.
Alba Bay will serve as one of several reference environments, helping to facilitate the evaluation of future infrastructure models. This sandbox approach goes far beyond traditional pilot programs. Its development is backed by real capital, enabling participants to test tokenization, payments, and settlements in a real-world environment rather than a simulated or isolated system.
Yossi Abadi, Partner and CEO at Bretagne Holding Limite, the company behind Alba Bay, said:
“At BHL, we believe emerging technologies will continue transforming how large-scale development projects are financed and accessed globally. Through this exploratory initiative, we are interested in understanding how future innovation may improve efficiency, transparency, and accessibility within the broader real estate ecosystem.”
AEREDIUM is developing and testing innovative settlement infrastructure to simplify the purchase of tokenized real estate while reducing development complexity. Rather than being limited to certain methods, it will be payment-agnostic, providing much greater flexibility than current systems allow.
AEREDIUM, Lava Foundation, and Bretagne Holding Limited each provide something different to the project:
Lava Foundation manages the decentralized RPC and API infrastructure that powers blockchain connectivity, ensuring there’s no single point of failure.
Bretagne Holding Limited offers a wealth of development experience and a real-world project framework for future evaluation.
AEREDIUM handles the payment and settlement infrastructure. It enables people to interact with tokenized assets using various fiat and crypto-based payment methods, including bank transfers and stablecoins. This is achieved through atomic settlement, where AEREDIUM converts the buyer’s currency into a developer-chosen asset, while producing a single, auditable transaction across blockchains, banking systems, and enterprise platforms.
Looking Forward
The collaboration is well-positioned to streamline the multi-billion-dollar tokenized asset payments space. Customers will be able to purchase tokenized assets with the payment methods they trust and use day-to-day, while developers receive clean settlement with a verifiable payment trail, shifting the conversion from token issuance toward infrastructure needs.
This advancement has the potential to dramatically bolster RWA adoption rates. It streamlines participation for customers/users and fosters innovation amongst developers by tackling one of the industry’s most difficult-to-overcome hurdles.
If successful in their efforts to streamline RWA payments and settlement, AEREDIUM, Lava Foundation, and Bretagne Holding Limited could have their infrastructure integrated into various well-known and upcoming projects, so it’s worth keeping an eye on the collaboration as the RWA market continues to evolve and grow.
Discussing the future of tokenization infrastructure, Nimrod Knoller, Head of Foundation at Lava Foundation, said:
“Tokenized assets are only as reliable as the infrastructure beneath them. By combining decentralized infrastructure, settlement innovation, and real-world development perspectives, we are exploring what future institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure may look like.”
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