Real estate
Property interests issued with issuer-defined transfer rules and a permanent, auditable ownership trail.
Pillar 02 · Real-World Assets
Compliance built into the asset
Issue and settle tokenized real-world assets whose rules travel with them — with atomic delivery-versus-payment in POLA.
Tokenizing a regulated asset is easy; keeping it compliant through every transfer for its entire life is not. On Polaris, compliance is not an add-on contract: issued assets carry their own issuer-defined rules by design, enforced on every operation — while native POLA payments remain permissionless. That separation is deliberate, and it is the feature.
Issuer-defined compliance, enforced natively
Trusted issuers — admitted by an accountable, audited governance body — define the compliance rules their assets carry: who may hold and transfer them, and under what conditions. The rules travel with the asset itself, so every transfer is checked natively rather than through bespoke contract code.
Atomic settlement: both legs or neither
Delivery-versus-payment is native. The asset leg and the POLA cash leg settle atomically — both or neither — eliminating the principal risk of delayed settlement. For trades that need protection before settlement, witnessed escrow holds funds on-chain and releases them when agreed witnesses sign off, with an automatic timeout that returns funds to the payer if the trade never completes.
Every action leaves a trail
Issuance, transfers, and compliance actions execute as native typed operations on a permanent ledger — timestamped, final in seconds, and impossible to quietly edit after the fact. Auditors and regulators inspect the record as it happened.
Settles in POLA
The cash leg of every asset trade is POLA — a fixed-supply settlement asset with deterministic finality and no inflation. One settlement asset, one finality guarantee, across every instrument on the network.
Permissionless money, compliant assets
Native POLA payments stay permissionless. Compliance applies to issued assets and registered records, which carry their own rules by design.
No principal risk
Atomic delivery-versus-payment means the asset and the cash move together — both or neither. Delayed-settlement principal risk is engineered out.
Where it applies
Built for real-world use
Bonds
Tokenized debt issued and settled with atomic delivery-versus-payment, from issuance to maturity on one auditable ledger.
Funds
Fund shares issued under issuer-defined rules, with subscriptions and redemptions settling in POLA in seconds.
Equities
Tokenized shares whose compliance rules travel with the security through every transfer — no side registries drifting out of sync.
Commodities
Commodity-backed instruments traded with witnessed escrow and atomic settlement against POLA.
Other regulated instruments
Any instrument that needs issuer-defined rules and an audit trail can be issued as a native typed asset — no custom contract code required.