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Compliance API for RWA protocols. Verify investors, screen wallets, enforce asset policies — one API call.

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[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

This is the most important consumer protection point in RWA right now and not enough people are saying it.
Better rails democratize access — but they also democratize access to bad deals. Retail investors accessing tokenized assets for the first time won't necessarily know how to evaluate the underlying asset quality.

The compliance layer helps with one piece of this — verifying the investor is eligible, screening wallets, enforcing transfer restrictions. But it doesn't protect retail from buying a low quality asset that's been dressed up in tokenization.

The due diligence problem is still entirely on the investor.

Better infrastructure makes markets more accessible. It doesn't make them more honest. That's an important distinction.

Building the compliance layer at https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF — but the asset quality problem is a different one entirely

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

The evolution analogy is perfect — and every step in that evolution required new infrastructure.

Cars needed roads, gas stations, traffic laws. The internet needed TCP/IP, SSL, payment rails. Tokenization needs custody, oracles, and compliance infrastructure.

The assets are moving onchain. The compliance layer that makes them legally transferable, accessible to verified investors, and auditable to regulators — that's the infrastructure being built right now.

That's what we're working on at https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF.

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

Good morning to the infrastructure builders making all of that actually work.

Global access only works if the compliance layer scales with it. Composability only works if transfer restrictions are enforced automatically. Faster settlement only works if every participant is verified before the trade.
The unglamorous infrastructure underneath RWA is what makes the vision real.

Still early is right — and that's exactly when the infrastructure needs to be built.
https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

Building a compliance API for RWA protocols is unglamorous work.

Nobody tweets about KYB verification. Nobody posts about audit trails. Nobody gets excited about sanctions screening.

But every serious RWA protocol needs all of it.

That's why we're building it.
https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

Franklin Templeton settled M&A onchain.

NYSE partnered with Securitize.

IMF validated tokenization.

Bank of Canada validated DeFi lending.

All in the same week.

The infrastructure window is open right https://t.co/wZFRB9BmWi

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

Drop your biggest compliance question about RWA below.

I'll answer every single one.
👇

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

What KYB actually means for RWA protocols:

When a family office or hedge fund wants to invest in your tokenized asset, you can't just verify one person.

You need to verify:

→ The business entity itself
→ Every beneficial owner (25%+)
→ All directors and officers
→ Sanctions on all of the above

That's KYB. Most protocols skip it entirely.
https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

$27B in distributed RWA. $441B in permissioned systems.

The difference between those two numbers is compliance infrastructure.

Open chains have better tech. Permissioned systems have better compliance controls.

We're closing that gap.
https://t.co/GL7u4t0ONL

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

The compliance gap in RWA is not a technology problem.

The technology exists. Persona does KYC. Elliptic screens wallets. https://t.co/XBzb0wrtQn checks OFAC.

The problem is nobody has wired it all together into one API that any protocol can use in an afternoon.

That's what we built.
https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

What Clearlayer checks on every investor in milliseconds:

→ Identity verified via Persona
→ Wallet screened via Elliptic
→ Name checked against OFAC, UK, EU, UN, Canada sanctions
→ Asset policy satisfied

Everything that used to take days. Now one API call.
https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

RWA protocols that raised $10M+ and still do KYC via Google Form:

This is more common than you think.

The money is there. The compliance infrastructure isn't.

https://t.co/GL7u4t0ONL

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

The best infrastructure companies are built before the market needs them.

Stripe launched before most businesses thought they needed online payments. Plaid launched before open banking was mainstream.

Clearlayer is building compliance infrastructure before RWA goes mainstream.

https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

Thanks — we handle the compliance decision layer specifically.

When an investor tries to access a tokenized asset, Clearlayer checks their KYC status, screens their wallet against OFAC and global sanctions, verifies they meet the asset's eligibility policy, and returns allow/deny/review with a full audit trail in milliseconds.We integrate with Persona for KYC, Elliptic for wallet screening, and https://t.co/tfHVgFqWVI for name screening — protocols don't have to build or manage any of that themselves.

Would love to hear your ideas — what are you seeing in terms of how protocols are approaching this today?"

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

In 5 years every financial asset will be tokenized.

Every transfer will need a compliance decision.

Billions of decisions per day.

The infrastructure for that is being built right now.

https://t.co/GL7u4t0ONL

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

Good breakdown — the yield sources matter as much as the yield numbers.

thGOLD's physical gold lending to Singapore jewelers is the most interesting model here because it creates a genuine non-DeFi yield source. That also means the compliance requirements are different — you're dealing with real counterparties in a regulated jurisdiction.

The compliance layer across all six of these is worth examining too. Each has different investor eligibility, different jurisdiction rules, different lockup enforcement. That's six different compliance setups for what is essentially the same underlying asset.

Standardized compliance infrastructure across tokenized gold products would make this whole category more accessible.

Building that at https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF.

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

$100M in under 24 hours for Genesis is a strong signal — that's real institutional demand.

The compliance question for broad public access is interesting. Genesis was likely a curated set of verified institutional investors. Opening to everyone means scaling that verification process dramatically.

Every new thUSD holder needs to be verified, their wallet screened, and their eligibility confirmed against the asset policy. At $100M with a handful of investors that's manageable. At $1B with thousands of retail investors that needs to be automated.

Building the compliance infrastructure that makes that scale possible at https://t.co/52sX2ojfTF — congrats to the Theo team on the Genesis success.

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

@Benny___5 Fixed!

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

The RWA compliance market doesn't exist yet as a standalone category.

In 3 years it will be a billion dollar market.

We're building it before anyone else realizes it's a category.

https://t.co/GL7u4t0ONL

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

Drop your RWA protocol below and I'll tell you the one compliance thing you're probably missing.

Free audit. No pitch.

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

What's stopping you from launching your RWA protocol today?

A) Legal structure not ready
B) Compliance infrastructure not built
C) No investors yet
D) Still building the product

Genuinely curious where the biggest bottleneck is 👇

[Clearlayer @getclearlayer]

The compliance layer is the moat in RWA.

Not the tokenization platform. Not the smart contracts. Not the chain.

The protocol that owns the compliance layer owns the trust layer.

That's worth more than any TVL number.

https://t.co/GL7u4t0ONL