Kula has proposed six candidate Ethereum standards aimed at improving interoperability across tokenised real-world asset infrastructure.
The proposals, assigned ERC-8325 through ERC-8330, have moved to Review and are designed to address gaps in how tokenised assets, legal documents, compliance events, impact data and valuations are recorded and exchanged on-chain.
“When we talk about institutional adoption of tokenised real-world assets, the question is never whether the technology can do it – it can,” Chris Turner, co-founder of Kula, said.
“The question is whether two counterparties in different jurisdictions can look at the same asset and trust what they see without rebuilding the verification stack from scratch.
“Right now the answer is no, and that’s the ceiling. These standards are designed to raise it.”
The announcement comes as the tokenised real-world asset market has grown beyond $34 billion, while infrastructure across the sector remains fragmented, according to Kula.
Different jurisdictions have developed their own regulatory and technical frameworks for tokenised assets, meaning institutions operating across multiple markets often need to integrate with each system separately.
Kula specialises in title tokenisation, where a token represents a verifiable claim to the legal ownership of an underlying asset, rather than acting solely as a receipt for assets held by a traditional custodian.
The first proposal, ERC-8325, would establish a verifiable link between a token and the off-chain asset it represents.
ERC-8326 would enable legal and supporting documents to be anchored on-chain, allowing parties to confirm that retrieved documents correspond with the official record.
ERC-8327 would introduce jurisdiction-specific transfer rules, helping institutions determine whether an asset can be transferred between parties operating under different regulatory frameworks.
ERC-8328 would create a structured record of compliance events across an asset’s lifecycle, while ERC-8329 would standardise how impact data is recorded and verified.
The final proposal, ERC-8330, would create a common interface for reporting the net asset value of tokenised assets on-chain.
The six proposals have been designed as independent standards, meaning infrastructure providers could adopt them separately or use them together as part of a broader framework.
They are also intended to complement existing token and compliance standards, including ERC-3643 and ERC-7943, rather than replace them.
Kula said markets including Germany, Switzerland and the UAE have already established regulated pathways for tokenised assets.
However, these systems have developed under different legal, technical and compliance models, limiting interoperability between them.
The proposals have been released under Creative Commons Zero, the public-domain standard required by the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository.
Kula has introduced the standards through Ethereum Magicians and is seeking feedback from token issuers, compliance providers, custodians, auditors and infrastructure developers.
