---
title: Asset Issuance & Tokenization
seoTitle: Solana Tokenization for Stablecoins and Real-World Assets
description:
  Issue stablecoins, tokenize real-world assets, and run compliant token
  programs on Solana with built-in transfer controls, privacy, and settlement.
---

Solana is purpose-built for issuing and operating tokenized assets at scale:
sub-second finality, fees under $0.001, and a token standard with native
compliance controls - transfer restrictions, pausability, confidential
transfers, and permanent delegates - that on other chains require custom smart
contracts.

<DocsDiagram
  src="/assets/docs/diagrams/tokenization-overview.svg"
  alt="The tokenized asset lifecycle from design and issuance through controls, settlement, and operations"
/>

## Get started

<Cards>
  <Card title="Launch a token" href="/docs/tokenization/quickstart">
    Create a Token-2022 mint with metadata, pausability, a permanent delegate,
    and frozen-by-default accounts.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Understand Solana assets" href="/docs/tokens">
    Learn how token programs, mint accounts, token accounts, and extensions fit
    together.
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Control who can hold your token"
    href="/docs/tokenization/token-acl"
  >
    Enforce allowlists and blocklists with Token ACL (sRFC 37)
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Settle and operate

<Cards>
  <Card title="Settle delivery vs payment" href="/docs/tokenization/dvp">
    Atomically exchange a tokenized asset against payment in one transaction
  </Card>
  <Card title="Strike a NAV for a fund" href="/docs/tokenization/nav-strikes">
    Update net asset value for tokenized money market funds
  </Card>
</Cards>

## How it fits together

Tokenized assets on Solana are built on the [Token-2022 program](/docs/tokens)
and its [extensions](/docs/tokens/extensions) - the same primitives documented
in the core docs. This section is workflow-oriented: each page walks through a
task end to end and links down to the underlying extension reference when you
need the full API surface.