on.chained
Enforcement-first credit infrastructure

We make idle assets liquid.

Audited bullion, base metals, certified inventory, authenticated art — valuable, documented, and doing nothing. On.Chained turns real-world collateral into working capital without forcing a sale: risk isolated per loan, recovery enforced in the real world, no oracle-driven liquidation.

§ 01

Why this didn't exist

Traditional finance

Decades of discipline in underwriting and enforcing real-world credit. But execution is slow and fragmented, and good collateral sits trapped because no one sees the book in real time. Financing an audited metal position can take months, if it happens at all.

On-chain lending

Efficient, global, programmable — but built for assets that trade every second. It cannot price an illiquid commodity or enforce a claim in a vault. Forced onto real assets, it falls back on price oracles and liquidation cascades that simply do not hold.

Real-world assets have been tokenised, traded, and held. Never properly lent against. On.Chained is the first platform built to change that.

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What it means for you

If you hold the asset

Liquidity without selling

Your collateral is audited, stored, and idle. Put it to work and keep the upside.

  • Keep ownership. Draw working capital against the asset and retain full economic exposure to it.
  • Repeatable, not bespoke. A standard onboarding process instead of slow, relationship-driven private credit.
  • Terms defined up front. Loan-to-value, tenor, and recovery path set before any capital moves.
If you provide the capital

Yield backed by enforcement

Returns from real borrower interest against documented collateral — not recursive leverage or narrative yield.

  • Risk isolated per loan. One bad deal stays one bad deal. No pool-wide cascade, no socialised loss.
  • Senior, conservatively secured. Lending against audited assets at conservative LTV, with room to recover.
  • No oracle liquidations. Stress starts a work-out, not a forced sale at the worst possible moment.
§ 03

How it works

I

Pooled capital, isolated risk

Liquidity is pooled for efficiency. Every exposure is its own contract with its own lifecycle and loss profile. One problem deal never becomes a pool-wide event.

II

Enforcement-first, not oracle-first

We start from what can be claimed and enforced, by whom and on what timeline — not from a price feed. Default begins a work-out, not an instant auction.

III

Deterministic state machine

Every loan runs as a defined lifecycle with auditable transitions. Humans decide; the system records each decision as a state you can replay from origination to settlement.

IV

Real-time capital visibility

A live view of when capital is committed, deployed, and expected to return, read from the state of every active contract rather than from a static term sheet.

The obligation lifecycle
01
Originated
02
Active
03
At-Risk
04
Defaulted
05
Enforcement
06
Resolved
§ 04

What that looks like in practice

From asset to capital

The asset is documented, reviewed, and tokenised first. Capital moves last.

Proposal
Documented
Reviewed
Tokenised
Funded

Risk isolation

One deal defaults. The rest of the pool stays whole.

Enforcement, not liquidation

Under stress, value is worked out and recovered — not auto-sold at the bottom.

FORCED SALE ENFORCEMENT RECOVERED
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Three pillars, one architecture

I

Own credit platform

Senior secured lending against audited commodities and forward production, under the On.Chained brand. The proving ground and first performance data.

II

White-label rails

The same machinery behind other brands — tokenisation platforms, stablecoin issuers, exchanges, custodians. Our engine, their distribution.

III

Infrastructure licensing

The architecture itself, licensed to insurance, banking, and capital markets. Long-term licence and maintenance economics with established institutions.

§ 06

The people

Marcel Madarevic
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and architect of the On.Chained model. Connects asset owners, liquidity, and the institutions that build on the rails.
Ayoub El Moutanabbih
Chief Technology Officer
Leads the execution engine, state machines, and integration layer — from prototype to production-grade infrastructure, and the team that ships it.
Michael Perschke
Advisor · Real-World Assets & Capital Markets
More than two decades in senior management across finance, commodities, and technology, with a strong network in commodity-backed transactions across Europe and the Middle East.
Sanjay Sharma
Advisor · Arts & Collectibles
Guides On.Chained's extension into fine art and collectibles as an institutional collateral class — provenance, authentication, custody, and enforceable value.
§ 07

Learn more

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§ 08

Questions

What is asset-backed lending against real-world assets?

It lets owners of audited collateral — bullion, commodities, fine art, inventory — borrow working capital while keeping ownership. On.Chained lends where the collateral exists in the real world and recovery is enforced through legal rights, not price oracles.

What collateral is eligible?

Assets that can be independently valued, securely stored, and legally encumbered: vaulted bullion (gold, silver, platinum), base metals such as copper cathodes and concentrate, certified inventory, authenticated fine art and collectibles, and enforceable forward-production structures. Native crypto tokens are not accepted.

How is loan-to-value (LTV) set?

LTV is calculated from verified collateral value, then discounted for liquidity, custody risk, insurance coverage, and enforcement complexity — a conservative advance ratio that leaves room to recover if markets move against the position.

What happens on default?

A default begins a structured work-out against the collateral — claiming security interests and pursuing legal remedies — rather than an automated fire sale at a screen price. Recovery is planned before the loan is originated.

How is this different from DeFi lending?

DeFi lending is built for crypto assets that trade continuously and can be liquidated by a price feed. RWA lending is built for physical, legal assets valued by independent audit and recovered through legal enforcement rather than automated liquidation.

Is On.Chained offering a security?

No. Nothing on the site is an offer of securities or a solicitation to lend or borrow. All facilities are subject to definitive documentation, independent collateral review, and underwriting.

The next step

A thirty-minute conversation about where your assets fit.

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