New York Life Takes High-Yield Bond Strategy Onchain With Centrifuge

TL;DR New York Life Investment Management is working with Centrifuge to tokenize a US high-yield corporate bond strategy. The product is being built on Avalanche with USDC subscriptions and redemptions. Access is restricted to qualified institutional buyers. New York Life Investment Management is taking one of its fixed-income strategies onchain through a partnership with Centrifuge. The firms announced plans to tokenize a US high-yield corporate bond strategy on Avalanche, with qualified institutional buyers able to subscribe and redeem using USDC. A Traditional Bond Strategy Gets Blockchain Rails The underlying idea is not to turn high-yield bonds into a retail crypto product. Instead, Centrifuge is providing tokenization infrastructure around an institutional investment strategy managed by NYLIM, which oversees more than $300 billion in assets. Using Avalanche gives the product a blockchain settlement and ownership layer, while USDC provides a digital-dollar mechanism for subscriptions and redemptions. For institutions, that can simplify some of the operational movement between cash and fund interests, particularly in markets where tokenized products are being built to operate o...