Blockchain Powers Jack Ma’s $8-B Ant Group Energy Asset Strategy

According to Bloomberg, Ant Digital Technologies has linked more than 60 billion yuan (about $8.5 billion) of energy infrastructure to its AntChain blockchain platform, in what reports call a major push to turn physical power assets into tradable digital ￰1￱ move ties generators and charging equipment to a blockchain so their output and outages can be recorded in a way that can’t be ￰2￱ And Scope Of The Blockchain Project Ant’s system already connects about 15 million devices, including wind turbines and solar ￰3￱ than 9,000 charging units are on the ledger as ￰4￱ on the report, the company has also tied the work to Ant’s Whale blockchain, which handles a share of the more than $1 trillion that Ant’s global payments network processed last ￰5￱ scale puts this effort well beyond many pilot programs elsewhere.

A unit of Ant Group is quietly making inroads to link over $8.4 billion worth of energy infrastructure and other real-world power assets to its blockchain, according to sources ￰0￱ — Bloomberg (@business) September 9, 2025 Ant Has Backed Tokens With Real Assets The project does more than log ￰6￱ have been issued against some of the linked assets, and those tokens were used to raise ￰7￱ of roughly 300 million yuan (about $42 million) has been arranged for three clean energy projects under the new ￰8￱ earlier deals, Ant helped Longshine Technology Group raise 100 million yuan, and later arranged over 200 million yuan by connecting photovoltaic assets to the chain for GCL Energy ￰9￱ And Funding Details Reports explain that these tokens represent slices of ownership or revenue streams from the ￰10￱ offering tokens directly, operators can tap investors without going through traditional loan officers or ￰11￱ can speed up capital flows for project ￰12￱ are also weighing whether to let the tokens be traded on offshore exchanges to create more liquidity, but those plans hinge on regulators granting ￰13￱ It Fits Globally The initiative joins a broader trend of putting real-world assets on ￰14￱ like Securitize have worked on equities and bonds, while other teams focus on tokenized Treasuries and fractional property ownership.

Ant’s focus on energy adds a large, infrastructure-heavy example to the ￰15￱ technology could make it easier for smaller investors to own a piece of projects that were once accessible only to big ￰16￱ image from Meta, chart from TradingView