> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ix.finance/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Why IX RWA

> The market, the design principles, and the roadmap to mainnet.

## The opportunity

Artificial intelligence runs on compute, and compute is a **real, cash-flowing asset** — GPUs and the facilities around them are rented continuously at market rates. Yet ownership of that asset base is concentrated in a small number of hyperscalers, and it is effectively closed to ordinary investors and to the AI agents that increasingly consume it.

IX RWA opens it up: fractional, on-chain ownership of income-producing compute, with the transparency and settlement guarantees of public blockchains.

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  <Card title="Real yield" icon="money-bill-trend-up">
    Returns come from actual compute rental revenue, not token emissions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fractional access" icon="chart-pie">
    Own a slice of infrastructure that is otherwise capital-prohibitive.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Agent-native" icon="robot">
    Designed so AI agents can read the market directly and, in time, allocate to it.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Design principles

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  <Accordion title="The chain is the source of truth" icon="link">
    Ownership and payouts are derived from verified on-chain events, never from figures a client claims. Verifiable state is a precondition for real capital.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Transparency by default" icon="eye">
    NAV, reserve coverage, holdings, and distributions are published and checkable. We favor "verify" over "trust."
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Say what's real" icon="scale-balanced">
    Live features are documented as fact; anything not yet shipped is labeled roadmap. We do not present projections as realized results.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Institutional-grade before scale" icon="building-columns">
    Security, auditability, and correct accounting come before growth. One chain, proven with real money, before any expansion.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Where it runs

IX RWA is **live on BNB Smart Chain testnet** today. The canonical mainnet chain is selected at the audited Phase-2 redeploy; the protocol is EVM-based, so settlement can target the chain that best serves institutional capital, native stablecoin rails, and agent payments.

## Roadmap

<Note>
  The following describes planned work. Items are not live until stated otherwise in the relevant section of these docs.
</Note>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Now — testnet">
    Marketplace, fractional investment, portfolio, live NAV and reserve coverage, on-chain asset registry, and a read-only Agent Gateway (MCP).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Next — verified money-path & first distributions">
    On-chain-derived ownership accounting and the first real revenue distributions, end to end.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Then — audit & mainnet">
    Third-party security audit, canonical-chain redeploy, and mainnet launch.
  </Step>

  <Step title="After — liquidity & agent settlement">
    Secondary exit (redeem-at-NAV, then peer transfers) and agent-initiated allocation.
  </Step>
</Steps>