Capital fuels U.S. expansion, institutional infrastructure build-out, and preparation for future U.S. exchange listings as global allocators accelerate their migration toward Bitcoin programmability.
14/05/2026 — Orobit, a Bitcoin-native institutional infrastructure and payments company, today announced a $10 million USD capital commitment from GEM Digital Limited, the digital asset investment arm of the $3.4 billion alternative investment group Global Emerging Markets (GEM). The commitment will accelerate Orobit’s U.S. expansion, scale its institutional infrastructure stack, and prepare the company for future U.S. exchange listings.
The transaction brings Orobit’s combined private rounds and strategic commitments to approximately $20 million USD to date, establishing it among the most well-capitalized Bitcoin-native infrastructure platforms globally and signaling that institutional capital is now flowing decisively toward programmable Bitcoin rather than speculative alternative-chain experiments.
A Defining Moment of Institutional Validation
GEM Digital’s commitment is a structural endorsement of Orobit’s thesis: that the next decade of digital financial infrastructure will be built on Bitcoin — the only network with the security, neutrality, and institutional acceptance to settle the world’s most valuable assets at scale.
“Institutional capital is no longer asking whether Bitcoin will become the foundation of digital finance — it is asking who is building the infrastructure to make that future operational. We are building the financial rails for the next generation of digital assets.”
— Paul Dando, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Orobit
Targeting the $30 Trillion RWA Tokenization Market
Orobit is positioned to capture one of the largest opportunities in modern financial history. Industry research projects the tokenized Real World Asset (RWA) market will exceed $30 trillion over the coming decade across treasuries, private credit, real estate, commodities, equities, and structured products.
To date, the majority of tokenization activity has occurred on alternative chains lacking the security and institutional credibility required for regulated capital at scale. Orobit’s thesis, increasingly consensus among allocators, is direct: the world’s most valuable assets will ultimately settle on the world’s most secure network — Bitcoin.
One of the First True Bitcoin-Native Institutional Ecosystems
Orobit is purpose-built as a vertically integrated, Bitcoin-native institutional platform combining smart contracts on Bitcoin, Lightning Network payments, self-custodial infrastructure, institutional-grade RWA issuance, quantum-resilient security architecture, and compliance-ready rails for enterprise adoption — a single coherent stack bridging traditional finance and Bitcoin-native settlement.
U.S. Expansion and the Path to Public Markets
The GEM Digital commitment will fund Orobit’s expansion into the United States — the most consequential market for institutional digital asset adoption — at a moment of historic regulatory clarity. Capital will be deployed across:
• U.S. operational and commercial build-out.
• Institutional partnerships with banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and RWA issuers.
• Scaling of infrastructure, security, and compliance capabilities.
• Preparations for future U.S. exchange listings and public-market readiness.
Why This Matters
For institutional allocators, Orobit answers three structural questions now central to every serious digital asset investment committee: where the world’s tokenized assets will settle, who is building the infrastructure to make Bitcoin operationally usable for regulated capital, and what institutional-grade exposure to the Bitcoin economy looks like beyond spot ETFs. The answer, increasingly, is infrastructure — the issuance, settlement, custody, and payment rails that capture economic value as the ecosystem scales.
For more than a decade, Bitcoin’s role in global finance was defined by its monetary properties. The next decade will be defined by its programmability, and Orobit was built for this moment.
About Orobit
Orobit is a Bitcoin-native institutional infrastructure and payments company building the issuance, settlement, custody, and compliance rails for the next generation of digital assets. Combining smart contracts on Bitcoin, Lightning Network payments, self-custodial architecture, institutional-grade RWA issuance, and quantum-resilient security, Orobit bridges traditional finance and Bitcoin-native settlement at institutional scale. Visit orobit.ai.
About GEM Digital Limited
GEM Digital Limited is a long-only digital asset investment firm, and part of Global Emerging Markets (GEM), a $3.4 billion alternative investment group with a more-than-three-decade history of strategic capital deployment across emerging markets and digital asset infrastructure. Visit gemny.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties. References to market sizing, including the $30 trillion RWA opportunity, are based on third-party industry research. This release does not constitute an offer to sell or solicit the purchase of any securities or digital assets.