RIV Capital Group, a Luxembourg investment holding with offices is Dubai that Roberto Rivera founded, launched RIV Coin, its proprietary cryptocurrency, on Solana, an open-source blockchain (see here the press release and the Litepaper). The firm started a pre-sale of the digital money in 2025 (see here a previous article by BeBeez International)
Anatoly Yakovenko founded Solana in 2017, and Solana Labs launched it in 2020 for supporting decentralised applications (dApps), NFTs and cryptocurrency payments and closing high speed transactions at low costs.
RIV Coin’s underlying items has the warranty of real assets that RIV Capital manages since 2011 through an active investment strategy at the core of Luxembourg’s hedge fund RIV Capital Sicav RAIF, a vehicle that the firm launched in October 2023 and is currently placing among institutional investors and family offices (see here a previous article by BeBeez International).
RIV Coin aims to create a scalable and regulated bridge between institutional finance and DeFi, whilst maintaining standards of transparency and verifiability that are suitable for professional and sophisticated retail investors.
RIV will be able to leverage an infrastructure already supporting highly scalable DeFi applications and accelerate the time-to-market of the coin while facilitating its integration with existing wallets, protocols and exchange platforms. The project involves the development of a broader ecosystem that includes a crypto-to-fiat payment solution for merchants (StablePay) and a multi-chain wallet, initially compatible with Cosmos, Solana and Ethereum.
The project’s current main challenge is the ability to attract capital flows to the underlying fund and the associated ecosystem, as Rivera said to BeBeez in October 2025 (see here a previous post by BeBeez International). The ceo said: “Today, wealth managers must design the entire system through which firms hold, move, track, regulate and grow assets under management”, as the financial services sector is evolving towards an infrastructure-based model rather than mere intermediation.
The RIV Coin is part of a broader framework blending traditional and decentralised finance for building an ecosystem in which regulated assets, digital tokens and technological infrastructure – from custody to transaction validation – are natively integrated and provide real-time transparency, traceability and interoperability.
Rivera explained that the drivers of such a shift are the institutional investors and family offices seeking greater control and direct access to assets and the roll-out of the European MiCAR regulation with the emergence of RegTech solutions. The ability to design digital asset infrastructures is becoming a key competitive factor.
The launch on Solana therefore marks the start of the project’s operational phase, in which the model’s sustainability will depend on its technological architecture and the quality of the underlying assets, but above all on its ability to generate real-world utility, liquidity and engagement within the ecosystem.
