August served as a pivotal month for MANTRA, marked by major milestones that strengthened our technology, ecosystem, and community. 

From securing a $20 million strategic partnership with Inveniam and welcoming Binance as an active validator, to achieving full EVM compatibility and launching a $25 million OM token buyback, each step underscored our commitment to building the leading Layer 1 blockchain for tokenizing real world assets.

With governance proposals passed, transparency enhanced, and our community rewarded, August set the stage for accelerated growth as we move toward a more decentralized, institutionally backed, and developer-friendly future. 

Strategic Partnership with Inveniam

On 5 August, we announced the start of our strategic technology and commercial partnership with Inveniam, a leading data infrastructure platform for private market assets. As part of this collaboration, Inveniam made a $20 million investment into the MANTRA ecosystem to advance infrastructure for the institutional-grade tokenization of private real world assets spanning from the UAE to global DeFi markets. Notably, the partnership will enable institutional-grade private market assets with full data sovereignty, surveillance, and agentic solution sets to capitalize upon rapidly expanding DeFi market opportunities. 

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Binance Joins as Active Validator

We announced on 11 August that Binance joined MANTRA mainnet as an active validator, thereby further strengthening our network security and decentralizing our governance process. Binance’s addition reflects the improvements being made to MANTRA Chain with a focus upon validator diversification - by winding down internal validators and adding more support respected partners. Binance joins other prominent industry leaders in the validator set that includes but is not limited to; Nansen, Google Cloud, Twinstake, and Hex Trust.‍

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Roadmap Update 

In his Community Update (12 August), JP didn’t just break down the significant benefits of MANTRA Chain becoming fully EVM-compatible - low fees, high throughput, and enhanced liquidity - he shared a look at where our efforts will be focused for the second half of 2025, and into 2026. 

It’s a high level look into what we’re building, our strategy and the steps we’ll be taking to deliver it. So too who we’re building for, namely asset owners looking for faster, less bureaucratic capital raising and broader global access, investors seeking reliable, real world yield rather than speculative crypto options, and developers wanting a smooth avenue to build compliant applications tied to regulated financial products.

It’s pivotal work and a pivotal moment that will accelerate ecosystem expansion.

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Strategic OM Token Buyback

On 27 August we announced the first tranche of the OM token buyback, supported and funded by our key investors and stakeholders. The first buyback - a $25,000,000 (minimum) commitment - follows Inveniam's recent $20 million investment in MANTRA to advance institutional market infrastructure, and increase private real world asset participation and adoption. Combined, these two announcements reflect a minimum $45 million commitment. 

The buyback will be executed transparently over several months via publicly traded centralized exchanges. Purchased OM tokens—including ERC-20 versions—will be migrated to the MANTRA Chain mainnet and staked with MANTRA’s validator network. Updates and wallet addresses will be shared via MANTRA’s X (formerly Twitter) account and OM token dashboard.

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Key Governance Proposals 

Proposal #17 to establish MANTRA Chain as OM's native foundation passed on 22 August. This means that what began as an ERC20 token on Ethereum will become a native asset with global reach - one anchored to infrastructure purpose-built for real world assets. Proposal #18 also passed thereby increasing the $OM token inflation and returning it to its original 8%. 

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OM Transparency and Milestones

Over $277M OM tokens, representing 31% of the ERC20 supply, has now been bridged and burned. 

For a clear view and live look at $OM token supply, operational wallets, and other significant onchain holdings, you can also visit the OM Dashboard. 

Kaito Real World Rewards Program

Congratulations to July’s top yappers who’ve played a key part in driving insights and conversation about the MANTRA ecosystem. Since April we have increased the rewards pool to 28,888 $OM, in order to reward those whose insights deserve the spotlight by driving our work and RWA tokenization forward. 

Learn more and join here. 

September? Busy. Loading. We’re hosting a community event at Korea Blockchain Week, headed to Singapore for TOKEN 2049 and have one more event announcement up our sleeve… stay tuned.