Kresus Raises $13 Million From Hanwha To Expand Wallet And RWA Infrastructure
Hanwha invests KRW 18B ($13M) in Kresus to expand digital asset infrastructure. Funding supports enterprise wallets, the RWA token, and on-chain workflows. The agreement follows a memorandum of understanding signed at the Abu Dhabi Financial Week in December 2025.
Kresus Labs, a US-based digital wallet and blockchain infrastructure company, has launched KRW 18 trillion(approx) from Hanwha Investment & Securities in strategic investment.
The deal highlights how traditional finance looks beyond crypto trading and into the “pipeline” behind digital assets: secure wallets, enterprise systems and products that fit into existing financial services.
Strategic Capital targets infrastructure coverage of digital assets.
Cresus' investments support product development, enterprise deployments and global partnerships in environments that typically require long implementation times and strict security standards.
The company builds digital asset tools for both consumers and institutions, and provides enterprise-level platforms for digital wallets and real-world value (RWA) tokens, working on chain financial workflows.
The investment follows a memorandum of understanding signed by Kresus and Hanwha Investment & Securities at Abu Dhabi Financial Week in December 2025, the companies said.
Matters of that order: Memorandums of understanding are often used to formalize ideas, outline areas of collaboration, and establish technical and commercial activities before funding or deep integration plans are finalized.
Kresus also emphasized its security approach. It features seedless wallet recovery technology designed to reduce reliance on a single recovery phrase that can be lost or stolen.
It also uses MPC-based security systems that divide sensitive signatures or authorization levels into multiple components, thereby reducing dependency on a single device or key.
In practice, these designs aim to make wallets difficult to negotiate and easy to recover from, two major pain points with major adoption.
“This investment validates our technology and the direction Kresus has taken as a company,” Kresus founder Trevor Traina said in a statement.
He added that Kresus is focused on infrastructure that works in the real world, from consumer applications “used at scale” to enterprise solutions built for institutional requirements.
RWA token will be a practical focus for financial organizations.
For Hanwha Investments and Securities, the partnership is designed to strengthen client-facing digital assets services and pursue tokenization activities linked to existing financial products.
The RWA token is generally a blockchain-based representation of real-world financial claims or instruments, with the aim of improving how assets are issued, tracked or transferred in digital systems.
“Kresus' unique wallet security technology and RWA infrastructure will play a key role in enhancing the digital asset capabilities of Hanwha Investments and Securities,” said Son Jong Min, Chief Strategy Officer of Hanwha Investments & Securities.
He said the company will work with international technology companies as it seeks to transform itself into a specialized digital asset insurance company.
The announcement fits a broader industry trend: established financial institutions are showing more interest in regulatory and enterprise-ready blockchain use cases than retail speculation.
Wallet technology and tokenization platforms are considered the building blocks of devices that can be integrated into existing product lines rather than standalone consumer brands.
