For a long time, Cardano has taken a different path from most blockchains. Its focus has been governance, correctness, sustainability, and long-term design rather than short-term growth or speculation. That approach has not always been the fastest, but it has always been intentional.
Many builders believed that this foundation would eventually matter. That Cardano could support regulated, real-world systems once the right tooling existed.
At Libertum, that belief is no longer theoretical.
We applied to Project Catalyst Fund 15 because Cardano is reaching a clear inflection point. The protocol foundations are mature, interest from real industries is already present, and what is needed now is production-grade infrastructure that allows serious projects to deploy with confidence.
Libertum Is Not Starting From an Idea
Libertum did not begin as a concept or a prototype.
We already operate a regulated tokenization platform in production across multiple jurisdictions. Today, our infrastructure supports:
- compliant real-world asset issuance
- identity-gated access and permissions
- lifecycle controls and governance actions
- regulated secondary trading and asset servicing
These are live systems, used by real issuers, investors, and institutions.
Our Catalyst proposal is about bringing this capability to Cardano natively. Specifically, rebuilding what already works using CIP-113, so Cardano gains institutional-grade security token infrastructure that is native, auditable, and reusable.
This distinction matters.
Most real-world asset initiatives do not fail because blockchains cannot issue tokens. They fail because there is no clear way to manage responsibility, compliance, recovery, or auditability over time. Without those controls, serious organisations simply cannot deploy.
Why CIP-113 Matters for Real-World Adoption on Cardano
CIP-113 matters because it reflects how real systems actually behave.
Real-world assets are governed systems. They have roles, rules, exceptions, and long lifecycles. When those behaviours are not expressed on-chain, they are pushed into off-chain processes, manual approvals, and informal controls. That is where trust breaks down.
By building CIP-113-based infrastructure directly into Cardano, Libertum is proposing a reusable and auditable standard for lifecycle and compliance behaviour. This enables Cardano to support:
- regulated real-world assets
- institutional tokenization
- compliant funds and settlement flows
- long-lived, governance-heavy applications
without every project having to reinvent the same machinery.
Real Demand: Projects Are Waiting for These Rails
One of the strongest signals during this Catalyst round has been demand from real projects that want to build on Cardano but need the infrastructure first.
Projects like Axella Coin and Aquara are not speculative use cases. They operate in domains where accountability, governance, and regulatory clarity are non-negotiable.
Both have been clear that they want to build on top of the infrastructure Libertum is proposing.
Axella Coin works in clinical research and decentralised science, where milestone-based funding, governance, and auditability are essential. Aquara focuses on water finance and infrastructure, where long timelines, multiple stakeholders, and enforceable rules define success.
These projects are not looking for bespoke smart contracts. They are looking for shared, compliant infrastructure that allows them to deploy responsibly on Cardano.
That is Libertum’s role: to build the rails that make these kinds of applications possible, repeatable, and scalable.
Why Project Catalyst Is the Right Mechanism
Private capital plays an important role in scaling products and companies. But it often optimises for speed, ownership, and competitive advantage.
Project Catalyst serves a different purpose.
Catalyst allows the Cardano community to invest in shared infrastructure, open standards, and foundational tooling that benefits the ecosystem as a whole. It creates space to build what is necessary, even when the value is distributed rather than captured by a single entity.
Libertum’s proposal is not about launching a single product. It is about establishing institutional-grade RWA tokenization infrastructure on Cardano, embedded into our existing white-label platform so that:
- Cardano-native projects can launch faster
- enterprises and institutions can deploy with certainty
- real-world assets can move on-chain without workarounds
Once built, this infrastructure is available to all Cardano builders, not just Libertum.
A Simple Question for Cardano Voters
The most important question for Catalyst voters is not:
“What launches fastest?”
It is:
Does this make Cardano more usable in the real world right now?
When governance, identity, and lifecycle controls exist by default, institutions stop guessing and start committing. Builders stop improvising and start deploying. Entire industries, from healthcare and water infrastructure to finance and energy, become viable on Cardano.
Cardano has spent years getting the fundamentals right.
This proposal is about turning those fundamentals into real-world adoption, now.