tZERO ATS, a broker-dealer which facilitates the secondary trading of digital security tokens, has partnered up with commercial real estate and finance platform Earn.re, according to a joint announcement on March 3.

The partnership will allow commercial property issuers on Earn.re to provide extra liquidity for the trading of digital avails on tZERO ATS, subject to the platform's due diligence.

Earn supplies software solutions for the issuance of digital securities backed by real manor. Its users can employ blockchain technology to finance commercial existent manor and create fractional shares of debt instruments and disinterestedness backed by real estate.

tZERO CEO Saum Noursalehi said that the new partnership would benefit tZERO past increasing its exposure to would-exist belongings issuers of digital securities:

"This alliance volition increase tZERO's exposure to forward-thinking commercial property issuers of digital securities that are seeking an innovative, liquidity solution."

Earn CEO Aaron Lohman, talked up the utility of digital securities, adding that the association with tZERO would expose Earn customers to some of the latest financing tools.

"Earn is committed to ongoing engineering and systems development, and ensuring our users accept access to the latest tools bachelor to heighten their real estate financing and investment activities. We believe digital securities are the time to come of the industry and are excited to partner with tZERO ATS, the leading venue for secondary liquidity in the industry," he said.

 tZERO is a subsidiary of Medici Ventures — itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of Overstock. Security token trade activity sunk towards the end of 2020, with volumes falling by more than than half month-on-month.