SINGAPORE, December 19, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- EDENA Capital Partners has secured an investment of up to $100 million via an EDENA utility token purchase agreement from GEM Token Fund ISA Ltd. ("GEM" or the "Fund"). GEM's sponsor and majority GP shareholder is GEM Group, a $3.4 billion alternative investment group based in Paris, New York, and the Bahamas — with a 30-year track record of 570 transactions across 70 countries.

The funding will accelerate EDENA's rollout of government-approved Security Token Offering (STO) exchanges in Indonesia and Egypt, designed to transform real estate, carbon credits, corporate equity, bonds, and commodities into regulated digital securities starting at $10.

GEM's investment is structured to support EDENA's multi-year roadmap. The funding will accelerate the rollout of government-approved STO exchanges in Indonesia and Egypt, with planned investments in carbon credit project acquisition, the development of a real estate pipeline through the BEK Group partnership, platform liquidity, and technology infrastructure delivered through partners such as UI Networks and Group KS. These initiatives form the foundation for EDENA's expansion across ASEAN, MENA, and Africa and support the launch of fully regulated digital securities markets in both jurisdictions.

The investment comes as global real-world asset tokenization is projected to reach $16 trillion by 2030. EDENA positions Indonesia as its ASEAN hub, leveraging its approvals to build a regulated STO market in Southeast Asia. Through its joint venture with BEK Group, led by former Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, EDENA is also building Egypt into its MENA and Africa hub.

"GEM's commitment is a strong validation of our thesis that digital securities infrastructure, when built directly with governments and local exchanges, provide compliant access to emerging market assets," said Wook Lee, CEO and founder of EDENA Capital Partners. "With this investment, we are moving from vision to implementation. Indonesia and Egypt will launch as fully regulated STO exchanges, with real assets in the pipeline. Our goal is to make institutional-grade investments in climate, infrastructure, and real estate accessible to ordinary investors, while giving global capital a compliant way to enter high-growth markets."