Everest transforms tokenized assets from passive holdings into productive capital through lending, borrowing, leverage, and collateralization.
June 23, NEW YORK — Block Street, the liquidity infrastructure protocol powering on-chain capital markets, today announced the launch of Everest, a lending and leverage protocol purpose-built for tokenized equities and real-world assets (RWAs).
As tokenized stocks continue expanding across exchanges, issuers, and blockchain ecosystems, one challenge remains unresolved: utility.
While most tokenized assets can be bought and held, few can be used as productive financial instruments.
Everest changes that.
Built on top of Block Street’s chain-agnostic liquidity infrastructure, Everest enables users to borrow against tokenized stocks, access leverage, generate yield, and deploy capital across DeFi ecosystems while maintaining exposure to underlying assets.
“Tokenization is only the first chapter,” said Hedy Wang, CEO of Block Street. “The next phase is financialization. Traditional equities became trillion-dollar markets not because they could be owned, but because they could be borrowed, pledged, leveraged, and integrated into broader capital markets. Everest brings that same financial utility to on-chain assets.”
Everest is powered by Block Street’s Hybrid Liquidity Engine, a proprietary architecture combining institutional liquidity providers, RFQ-based execution, and on-chain settlement to improve capital efficiency while maintaining robust risk controls. The protocol supports dynamic collateral management, cross-chain liquidity access, and institutional-grade execution infrastructure.
The launch follows significant growth across the Block Street ecosystem. Since launch, Block Street’s Aqua liquidity network has processed more than $353 million in routed volume and generated over $1.3 million in protocol revenue, connecting fragmented liquidity across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, and other ecosystems. Institutional participants account for more than 65% of activity on the network.
Everest represents the next step in Block Street’s vision to build the infrastructure layer for on-chain capital markets. Rather than competing with issuers or exchanges, Block Street focuses on the market infrastructure that sits beneath them: liquidity routing, collateralization, lending, settlement, and capital formation.
As tokenized equities, ETFs, private markets, and RWAs continue moving on-chain, Block Street believes the largest opportunity is not issuance, but the financial infrastructure that enables those assets to function as a unified market.
About Block Street
Block Street is a unified liquidity infrastructure protocol for tokenized equities and real-world assets. Its flagship products include Aqua, a cross-chain liquidity and execution network, and Everest, a lending and leverage protocol designed for tokenized assets. Together they form a unified infrastructure layer connecting issuance, liquidity, and capital markets across on-chain ecosystems.
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