AkuaLabs is the foundation: we research and build compliant RWA infrastructure for both agriculture (commodities) and real estate, using ERC-3643 — starting with Ghanaian cocoa and expanding globally.
Focus: commodities + real estate RWAs · starting with Ghanaian cocoa · expanding globally
Flow · Agriculture RWA (Ghanaian Cocoa)
Vertical Slice
Receipt → Token → Escrow → Settlement
Network
Base Sepolia
Flow · Real Estate RWA (ERC-3643)
Compliance Spine
Identity → Rules → Transfer
Intent → Settlement
AkuaChain (L3) → Base Sepolia (L2)
Our Vision
AkuaLabs is the foundation behind a compliance-first RWA stack — spanning agriculture and real estate — built for institutional workflows and ERC-3643 transfer rules.
Receipt-backed assets where physical inventory becomes verifiable, auditable, and financeable — starting with Ghanaian cocoa.
Permissioned, compliance-aware real-estate assets with identity and transfer rules built in — designed for regulated market flows.
End-to-end traceability, compliance controls, and programmable settlement across L3 intent and L2 settlement — built to plug into existing institutional workflows.
What We're Building
AkuaLabs researches and builds the infrastructure that turns real assets into compliant, programmable markets — spanning agriculture and real estate with ERC-3643 at the core.
Agriculture + real estate RWAs.
A compliance-first marketplace for RWAs — starting with receipt-backed agriculture flows and expanding into ERC-3643 real-estate assets — with L3 intent execution and L2 settlement.
Caldera Nitro + AnyTrust DA.
A Base-first stack with AkuaChain (L3) as a Caldera Nitro rollup using AnyTrust data availability — built to host RWA marketplaces and deal flows, routing intent to settlement on Base (Base Sepolia on testnet).
Research + engineering that powers it all.
AkuaLabs is the research and engineering foundation behind AkuaX — combining protocol design, policy collaboration, and infrastructure R&D across agriculture and real estate RWAs.
CRE Integration
AkuaX integrates Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for decentralized monitoring and active orchestration. Our escrow-flow streams escrow + receipt events to the dashboard, while dta-flow acts as a Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) orchestration layer that manages subscription and redemption requests end-to-end — pricing, compliance gates, approval/rejection, settlement, and webhook lifecycle updates.
The DTA workflow is implemented and the on-chain CommodityDTARequestManager is deployed in our Base test environment, with access control enforced via the reserve contract. In parallel, escrow-flow continues to stream escrow + receipt events for real-time visibility.
Status: Awaiting CRE deployment access (early access program). Networks: Base (L2 settlement) + AkuaChain (L3 intent).
Deployments
Contract addresses and deployment snapshots are maintained in AkuaLabs docs for the Base L2 settlement layer and AkuaChain (L3) intent layer.
24-Month Roadmap
AkuaLabs is sequencing product, infra, and research so that RWAs across agriculture and real estate can plug into on-chain liquidity today — with AkuaX running on AkuaChain (L3) for intent, and settlement routed to L2.
Built. Shipping. Piloting.
Contracts are deployed on Base Sepolia with a vertical slice already functioning: agriculture RWA issuance (warehouse receipts), tokenization, escrow funding, and settlement through AkuaX.
The AkuaX pilot includes contracts for CocoaTon, WarehouseReceiptRegistry, CommodityEscrow, ReserveManager, MessageEmitter, BalanceReader, and CommodityDTARequestManager, orchestrated through Chainlink CRE for workflow automation and monitoring.
The frontend supports buyer, seller, and warehouse personas to issue digital receipts, create deals, fund escrow, and trigger settlement and release — all wired directly to on-chain data.
AkuaLabs is the foundation behind these rails — moving from MVP into structured pilots and institutional conversations across agriculture and real estate RWAs, with Ghanaian cocoa as the first production track and ERC-3643 powering compliance-aware real-estate flows.
AkuaX by AkuaLabs — Current Status
Last updated: 2026-01-19
AkuaLabs is the foundation behind AkuaX, expanding from pilots into the compliance-aware infrastructure needed for RWA marketplaces: L2 settlement + L3 intent execution for RWA marketplaces and on-chain real-asset contracts.
Intent layer (L3)
marketId registered on both L2 (AkuaMarketRegistryL2) and L3 (AkuaMarketRegistryL3)Settlement layer (L2)
approve-for-settlement, settle-rfq, check-settlement-status)Admin portal (Next.js)
apps/admin (local dev default http://localhost:3001)Supabase indexing
ingest_l3_events (L3 RFQ events) and ingest_l2_events (L2 settlement events)markets, rfqs, rfq_actions, settlements, ingestion_cursors + admin tables (incidents, audit_logs, profiles, etc.)20260119000002_fix_rls_helper_recursion.sql (prevents Postgres stack-depth recursion on profiles policies)ERC-3643 compliance requirements
AkuaX supports ERC-3643 compliant RWAs across agriculture and real estate. Before transfers (including settlement), addresses typically must:
IdentityRegistryComplianceModule.canTransfer(...)Typical settlement blockers
docs/marketplace/ADDRESSES.mddocs/deployments/2026-01-18-base-sepolia.md (Base Sepolia + ERC-3643 RWA token + marketplace history)docs/deployments/2026-01-18-base-sepolia-marketplace-v3.mdShort-term
profiles.role)docs/deployments/SUPABASE_OPERATIONS.md)Production
For Governments, Banks & Foundations
AkuaLabs works with commodity boards, government agencies, and regulated institutions to design pilots that are technically sound, policy-aware, and impact-driven.
Turn paper warehouse receipts and silo inventory into structured, on-chain collateral that can be monitored, audited, and financed.
Give regulators, central banks, and funds line-of-sight into the assets backing commodity-linked exposures and credit.
Bridge local commodity flows into Base L2 DeFi and stablecoin rails for hedging, credit enhancement, and impact capital.
Akua runs an institutional-grade Digital Transfer Agent that orchestrates the full lifecycle of tokenized commodity subscriptions and redemptions. From initial request to automated settlement, the DTA provides compliance-aware flows, institutional controls, and complete on-chain auditability — while remaining API-first so it can plug into existing compliance and government reporting systems.
Backed by deployed smart contracts and Chainlink CRE orchestration across AkuaChain (L3) and Base L2.
We work with commodity boards, government agencies, development banks, impact funds, and large cooperatives to design fit-for-purpose market rails.
Non-profit and foundation structures help separate research, education, and policy work from commercial deployments.
For Builders & Protocol Teams
AkuaLabs is opening up standards and test environments so DeFi teams, infrastructure providers, and builders can integrate commodity-backed assets natively.
Access smart contract interfaces, reference UIs, and example flows for integrating commodities into lending markets, structured products, and on-chain treasuries.
We're curating an early group of builders who want to ship real-world asset use cases with settlement on Base L2 and intent execution on AkuaChain (L3) — from collateralized lending to hedging products.
You bring protocol expertise; we bring commodity rails, data, and policy context.
Global Reach, Starting in Ghana
Ghana is one of the world's leading cocoa exporters and is deeply exposed to commodity price swings, FX constraints, and opaque middleman structures. Farmers and cooperatives carry this volatility while remaining far from global liquidity.
AkuaLabs is building infrastructure that improves pricing power for producers, reduces fraud and double-pledging of receipts, and makes collateral legible to both local and global capital.
The same rails that work for Ghanaian cocoa are designed to extend globally — with South America (coffee, soybeans, beef, sugar) in our near-term roadmap and a framework that adapts to local governance and regulatory contexts across any geography.
Get In Touch
Whether you're an institution, cooperative, builder, or impact fund — we'd love to hear from you. Share your interest and we'll schedule a call to explore how AkuaLabs (the foundation) can help you build compliant RWAs across agriculture and real estate.
Call to Action
If you're a government, cooperative, bank, fund, or protocol team, AkuaLabs is ready to explore pilots, research collaborations, and infrastructure partnerships around ERC-3643 RWAs — spanning agriculture and real estate.