RWA Ecosystem Grows Stronger: OFA Group Confirms the Hearth Labs RWA Platform Is on Track for Full Deployment, Powering a New Era of Real-World Asset Tokenization

Core Insights - OFA Group's real-world-asset platform, Hearth, is on track for a full release by late 2025 or early Q1 2026, designed to tokenize and manage income-producing assets on a blockchain-native infrastructure [1][7] - The platform will support various digital asset structures and is engineered for both internal and external issuers, ensuring a standardized and compliant process for asset tokenization [2][5] Development Progress - Hearth Labs is finalizing the smart-contract deployment layer, which includes issuance contracts, compliance, and asset lifecycle management, currently undergoing an independent audit for security and reliability [3][6] - The platform's foundational contracts are responsible for token minting, asset-level controls, and reporting, with security auditing as the final step before beta testing [4][6] Market Positioning - CEO Larry Wong highlighted Hearth's role in modernizing financial infrastructure by integrating valuation, compliance, and lifecycle management, aiming for broad participation from institutions and investors [4] - COO Thomas Gaffney noted that Hearth is designed to support both OFA and external partners, with plans to accept proposals for tokenizing various real-world assets upon launch [5][7] Future Outlook - Closed beta testing is expected in Q4 2025, with a public rollout targeted for late 2025 to early Q1 2026, and OFA Asset Management plans to issue its first RWA products shortly after the platform goes live [7]