Rialo targets the South Korean market, institutions are promoting the launch of financial services

Rialo accelerates the construction of blockchain infrastructure for financial institutions and deepens cooperation with institutions in South Korea and around the world.

Rialo is making every effort to promote it to become a blockchain infrastructure provider for financial institutions. Currently, the network is discussing proof-of-concept projects with a number of South Korean companies and jointly developing applications with other institutional partners.

Focus on institutional needs and eliminate technical barriers

Bobby Zagotta, chief commercial officer of Rialo, pointed out in an interview on October 6 that the growing interest of traditional financial institutions in blockchain technology has created opportunities for networks designed around existing financial operating models. "It is a positive sign that traditional financial institutions are paying serious attention to blockchain technology." Zagotta said,"We should design blockchains that financial institutions can use to avoid missing out on this period."

Zagotta believes that existing blockchain infrastructure is too complex for many institutions to integrate into daily operations. To this end, Rialo is committed to removing these barriers by supporting external system connectivity, interoperability, and privacy tools. The platform was launched by Subzero Labs in August 2025 after receiving a US$20 million financing led by Pantera Capital, with investment from Coinbase Ventures, Hashed, Mysten Labs and Variant.

When Subzero Labs designed Rialo, it focused on native Web connectivity and event-driven transactions, aiming to reduce blockchain applications 'reliance on stand-alone bridges, oracles and other middleware. Rialo's goal is to bring the experience of institutional-level blockchain closer to services in the Web2 era-that is, users can easily use it without having to understand or adapt to the technical mechanisms of blockchain.

Core Features: Rialo Edge and Privacy Protection

Rialo Edge is an important part of the infrastructure and aims to bring external API data into blockchain applications. Combined with its identity and privacy system IPC, applications can leverage relevant information without exposing the underlying data to the chain.

Zagotta takes lending business as an example: Financial institutions can obtain customers 'credit history, sanctions status, jurisdiction information or off-chain asset status through APIs, while ensuring that sensitive information is not publicly exposed on the chain. This capability is particularly suitable for real-world asset (RWA) lending scenarios. For example, a borrower may hold tokenized shares in Robinhood and ETH in Ethereum, and Rialo allows these cross-environmental assets to be used as collateral and integrates the borrower's external information into the application through an API.

In addition, Rialo also focuses on the application potential of AI agents. Subzero Labs is developing a system called Latch that controls the permissions of AI agents when executing transactions on behalf of users. Administrators can preset the counterparties that the agent can interact with, the upper limit of the transaction amount, and the validity period of the authorization. These permissions can be set to automatically expire after a specified time, limiting the agent's ability to operate after the authorization window ends. Such controls are in line with Rialo's philosophy of building applications based on preset rules, especially when empowering automated software asset management.

Suspension of coin issuance and priority establishment of business models

Rialo plans not to issue native tokens for the time being, but will focus on building practical application scenarios and business activities. Zagotta said that the team has clarified the future role of tokens, but hopes to establish feasible applications and business models before announcing the token plan. He believes that premature issuance of coins may lead to price and market performance becoming the only criteria to measure blockchain success, and Rialo prefers to develop a mature functional business model first.

This strategy has precedents in the institutional blockchain market. For example, Robinhood Chain was launched while using ETH as a Gas fee. It did not issue native tokens, but successfully supported tokenized stocks, lending and other decentralized financial applications. Currently, Rialo is working with organizations such as Cboe to develop use cases, including market data integration, and has been working on application development with multiple other organizations for months.

Entering the Korean market and exploring proof of concept

South Korea has become an important market for Rialo to expand. Zagotta pointed out that South Korean financial institutions have shown a strong willingness to expand into on-chain services, and Rialo has discussed potential proof-of-concept projects with multiple institutions in the country. The discussions aim to test how Rialo can be integrated into institutional applications to build its status and reputation as a blockchain partner before South Korean companies move further into the cryptocurrency business.

Zagotta emphasized that the team will continue to develop applications with partners for several months before disclosing the token issuance plan until the business model is fully verified. This strategic direction continues Subzero Labs 'vision in its $20 million funding round: to build a network with built-in native Web connectivity, privacy protection and interoperability capabilities, rather than having applications piece together functionality from external services.