Crypto exchange Bybit is expanding into real-world assets by offering tokenized bond funds from PIMCO and China Merchants Bank International. The new RWA Earn platform will feature funds tokenized by DigiFT, using Plume's onchain infrastructure, allowing users to subscribe with USDC.
Despite strong Solana ETF inflows and high network usage, SOL's price is falling due to a value-capture disconnect. Fee structures and macro pressures are cited as reasons, with proposed reforms aiming to address inflation and weak fee burns.
The tokenized real-world asset market is approaching $30 billion, but only $2.47 billion is active in DeFi. Permissioned structures and compliance hurdles limit integration with open crypto markets, creating a divide between on-chain ownership and DeFi composability.
The tokenized real-world assets (RWA) market is valued at nearly $30 billion on-chain, but only $2.47 billion is actively used in DeFi protocols. This gap is largely due to permissioned architectures and compliance constraints that limit composability, with bond and money market funds being the largest category outside of DeFi.
Real-world assets (RWA) on blockchain surpass $32 billion in market value, but experts warn about liquidity issues and fragmentation across blockchains, potentially draining billions from the market annually.
XRPL holds $3.6 billion in real-world assets (excluding stablecoins), with $2.6 billion in represented assets and $1 billion in distributed. The JMWH energy token accounts for $1.76 billion—roughly half the total RWA value and 70% of the represented segment. Issued by Justoken in partnership with Argentine energy producer YPF Luz, JMWH represents one megawatt-hour of energy per token. The represented asset model uses blockchain as record-keeping infrastructure rather than for peer-to-peer transfer, aligning with XRPL's native compliance controls. While the Enertoken proof-of-concept suggests potential to push RWA value toward $4.5-5.5 billion, single-issuer concentration risk and competition from open distribution models present significant challenges.
OCBC has launched GOLDX, a tokenized physical gold fund issued on Ethereum and Solana, in partnership with its asset management arm Lion Global Investors and digital asset exchange DigiFT. The token provides on-chain exposure to the LionGlobal Singapore Physical Gold Fund, which has $525 million in assets under management. Targeted at institutional investors, hedge funds and asset managers, the fund can be purchased using stablecoins and fiat currencies, with tokens delivered directly to investors' blockchain wallets.
