The DBS Bank has started to use the edition of tokenized structured notes via the Ethereum Public Blockchain, a step that opens these products for a wider pool of investors.
According to DBS, the move of Singapore’s largest lender shifted a product for private customers to a market where shops can take place more easily and in smaller parts.
Tokenization lowers the barrier
Structured notes usually wore a high minimum – around $ 100,000 – and aimed at wealthy customers.
Based on reports, DBS will divide the bonds into $ 1,000 units. This change makes the securities more fun and easier to act, and enables more accredited and institutional investors to buy a disc without large preliminary.
The largest bank in Singapore, DBS, has announced the issue of tokenized structured notes on the public blockchain of Ethereum, which is available to qualified and institutional investors by local exchanges addx, digift and hydrax. The first product is a participatory note that is linked to …
– Wu Blockchain (@wublockchain) August 21, 2025
Ethereum Blockchain: Distribution through the local digital exchange
Reports have announced that DBS will distribute the tokenized notes via Singapore platforms Addx, Digift and Hydrax.
The bank extends access beyond its private banking customers. This means that family offices and professional investors who have previously been excluded can now participate, whereby business is being managed by familiar, regulated outlets.
The first offer is a participation that is bound to cryptocurrency markets. According to the bank, it pays cash returns if the digital asset prices rise while protective measures are included in order to contain the losses during the swings.
The demand for hybrid products that Ethereum have built up with downward protection has built up with careful investors.
Commercial growth for dynamics and family office
DBS customers already showed great interest in structured notes. In the first half of 2025, structured note transactions from DBS customers exceeded $ 1 billion.
The activity was quickly impressed, with the volume rose by over 50% from the first quarter to the second. Reports also show that the single-family office scene in Singapore exceeded 2,000 by 2024, an increase of 40% compared to the previous year, and these offices were among the more active buyers.
A attack on tokenization printing in Singapore
The rollout combines in Singapore’s wider effort to make tokenized finances a real market. The Singapore monetary authority leads Project Guardian to test tokenization across bonds, currencies and funds, and a separate global layer one project deals with cross-border liquidity connections.
DBS previously carried out tests with private blockchains and published some work in Ethereum, if necessary, signals the willingness to use public networks.
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