Ondo Finance joins forces with LayerZero to launch "Securities Cross-Chain Bridge": seamless transfer of tokenized stocks and ETFs, now supporting Ethereum and BSC

Ondo Finance cooperates with cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero and officially launches Ondo Bridge. Officials claim that this is a cross-chain bridge designed specifically for onchain securities, aiming to allow tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to move seamlessly between different blockchains.
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Ondo Finance issued an announcement on December 18, announcing its cooperation with the cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero Cooperation, Ondo Bridge was officially launched. Officially, this is a cross-chain bridge designed specifically for onchain securities. It aims to allow tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to move seamlessly between different blockchains, marking the tokenization of real world assets (RWA) and officially entering the multi-chain era.

Capital markets are modernizing.

Ondo Global Markets, the largest tokenized stocks and ETFs platform, now supports seamless transfers of more than 100 assets to and from @ethereum via the Ondo Bridge.

Built in collaboration with @LayerZero_Core, the Ondo Bridge simplifies… pic.twitter.com/qy6Q18xa1n

— Ondo Finance (@OndoFinance) December 18, 2025

What are the characteristics of Ondo Bridge?

According to the press release, Ondo Bridge’s main features are its efficiency and safety. At present, it has supported the two major networks of Ethereum and BNB Chain at the beginning of its launch, allowing more than 100 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to achieve 1:1 cross-chain asset transfer and avoid potential risks caused by the use of wrapped assets. At the same time, all assets issued by Ondo Global Markets can be transferred through a single unified path, greatly simplifying the operation process.

In addition, Ondo Bridge is built on LayerZero’s cross-chain messaging framework, combined with Stargate Finance’s liquidity routing mechanism, and is secured by the Decentralized Verification Node Network (DVN) including Canary Protocol. This not only improves the reliability of transfers, but also allows more than 2,600 protocols, wallets and applications in the LayerZero ecosystem to quickly integrate Ondo assets with minimal additional development costs, enhancing the composability and liquidity of tokenized securities in decentralized finance (DeFi).

Another big advantage is its strong scalability. Ondo Bridge's architectural design allows for rapid integration with additional EVM-compliant links within weeks. Ondo calls this the largest dedicated bridge for tokenized securities at present, supporting the largest number of assets among similar products, helping to reduce the problem of cross-chain liquidity fragmentation and bringing institutional-level on-chain securities closer to the instant transferability of stablecoins.

In this regard, Ian De Bode, President of Ondo Finance, said: "This paves the way for the rapid expansion of Ondo Global Markets in the multi-chain economy." Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero Labs, said: "Tokenized assets are becoming a better version of traditional assets, and users will expect them to be instantly transferable like stablecoins."