RWA's growth rate has exceeded expectations, with a 266% increase in 2025. RWA is also widely recognized as an emerging market with the potential to reach the trillion-dollar level, and is one of the most certain narratives of institutional funding inflows in Crypto.

Is there a blockchain that can build everything in the real world on the blockchain, making the RWA application experience as smooth, simple, and easy to use as the Web2 era, and allowing real-time interaction with real life?

It really exists. This is what we're talking about today: @RialoHQ , a network that turns the idealized narrative of RWA into reality.

Rialo is a "real-world blockchain" (not a traditional L1 or L2) created by Subzero Labs. Through native Web2 interconnection, event-driven execution, and integrated design of privacy and compliance, it allows developers to directly build internet-level applications that are "as easy to use as Web2" and have all the advantages of decentralization.

What Rialo can do is link Web3 with real-world data in real time, allowing users who are not familiar with blockchain to easily use applications on the Rialo network according to their original usage habits.

What pain points does Rialo address?

Privacy vulnerabilities limit mainstream adoption: The lack of transparency in existing public blockchains hinders the processing of sensitive data (such as personal identification information and business strategies), resulting in limited application scenarios.

Compliance vs. Privacy: Project teams often face the dilemma of "if they want privacy, they cannot comply with regulations; if they want to comply with regulations, they must sacrifice privacy."

Fragmented infrastructure: Building dApps that connect to the real world requires piecing together multiple layers of infrastructure such as oracles, cross-chain bridges, and off-chain computing, which is highly complex and involves many trust assumptions.

Why do we need Rialo's solution?

Because current popular technologies such as AI agents, RWA, and real-time finance require "on-chain logic to automatically respond to real-world events," existing blockchains cannot yet achieve seamless integration.

For example, most developers spend nearly 80% of their time on glue code (code used to connect different software components or systems).

Rialo directly integrates Web2 primitives (HTTP calls, email/phone login, real-time data streaming) into its protocol layer, addressing the fundamental problem that "blockchain cannot serve real users."

How does Rialo address these pain points?

Simply put, Rialo provides a complete full-stack protocol layer infrastructure:

Developers can leverage Rialo's native capabilities (such as IPC, REX, and Web2 connectivity) to quickly build applications directly.

Taking compliant stablecoin transfers as an example:

Transaction triggered → Privacy execution in the REX environment → Real-time query of external compliance databases (such as sanctions lists) on-chain via IPC module → Success if compliant, failure if non-compliant.

For developers, there's no need to spend a lot of time integrating various third-party protocols; for users, they can experience a smooth "RWA application".

What is the status of Rialo's financing and the quality of its investors?

In August 2025, Rialo officially announced the completion of a $20 million seed round of financing, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Hashed, Mirana Ventures, Variant, Mysten Labs, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), Flowdesk, Edge Capital, and others.

Among them, Pantera Capital, which led the investment, has a high reputation in the industry. Well-known projects invested in by Pantera Capital include Solana, Circle, 1 inch, and Aptos.

Coinbase Ventures needs no introduction; the projects it invests in have a high probability of being listed on its exchanges.

Mysten Labs (Sui) is a top-tier L1 project in itself, with unparalleled ecosystem resources.

Susquehanna (SIG) is a top global quantitative trading firm with strong market maker resources and financial market expertise.

How strong is Rialo's team?

The co-founder and CEO is Ade Adepoju ( @itachee_x ), a former early engineer at @Mysten_Labs who participated in the development of Sui's network infrastructure. He also previously worked as a distributed systems engineer at Netflix and a microprocessor technology developer at AMD.

The co-founder and CTO is Lu Zhang ( @firearrowmage ), a former core engineer at Meta (Project Diem) with experience in large-scale blockchain systems. He also previously led AI/ML infrastructure expansion at Meta and Google.

Core member Matt Stephenson: Crypto economist and former research partner.

The newly added Jan Camenisch: He is one of the most influential cryptographers of the past 30 years, with his papers cited more than 30,000 times and holding more than 70 US patents.

Both founders have technical backgrounds and proven experience in building high-performance L1 systems from scratch. The team currently has more than 20 members, all of whom come from well-known projects and institutions.

Rialo's highlight lies in its pioneering design concept of using IPC (Identity, Privacy, and Compliance) as a unified primitive at the protocol layer, and its operation by a top-notch team gives it a significant advantage in the RWA field.

How do I participate in Rialo?

Rialo previously opened up the Waitlist, and the testnet is about to launch. We recommend staying tuned, as we will share an interaction tutorial after the launch.

You can join the official Discord channel first, where community events are held frequently.

Related reading: Blockchain's iPhone moment? Sui, a veteran developer, launches next-generation development platform Rialo.