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Join: $1.50/wk Sign In Small Business Could Tokenization Drive Social Impact? ByJoash Lee, Forbes Councils Member. for Forbes Business CouncilCOUNCIL POST | Membership (fee-based) Jun 10, 2025, 07:00am EDT Share Save Joash Lee is a General Partner at Iron Key. He actively invests in emerging technologies like AI, Web3 and ClimateTech. Abstract IoT network background getty Over the past few decades, the internet has evolved through three distinct eras:
Digital Assets and RWA: Reshaping How We Invest in Healthcare Infrastructure
Healthcare infrastructure requires significant capital investment, yet traditional financing models often struggle to meet demand. Digital assets and real world assets (RWA) are offering new solutions by enabling hospitals, research institutions, and medical startups to raise funds transparently, attract global investors, and improve resource allocation.
Cardano’s New Breakthrough in RWA Tokenization, Projected Market to Reach $2 Trillion!
Cardano is not alone in its efforts to advance RWA tokenization. Empowa, for example, is developing a property financing platform focused on the African market. Meanwhile, Tiamonds enables the tokenization and trading of real diamonds, allowing users to own a share of these valuable assets. These initiatives show how Cardano and its associated projects are striving to integrate real assets with blockchain technology.
First Trillion-Dollar Ready RWA Platform
The partnership combines IOST’s scalable blockchain infrastructure with DigiFT’s regulatory-first approach, creating a compliant and accessible gateway for investors to earn yield on tokenized assets. Through this collaboration, accredited investors can purchase iSNR on DigiFT’s MAS-licensed platform, bridge the asset to BNB Chain for multi-chain liquidity, and earn yield in the IOST Vault using decentralized finance (DeFi) yield strategies on a regulated foundation.
Digital Assets and RWA: Building the Next Generation of Education Financing
Education financing is undergoing a transformation as digital assets and real world assets (RWA) offer new ways to fund student loans, university infrastructure, and lifelong learning programs. Blockchain-based solutions are enabling income-share agreements, tokenized scholarships, and decentralized funding models that promote accessibility and financial inclusion.
DeFi Technologies Enters RWA Market With Regulated Stablecoin, Following Nasdaq Listing
DeFi Technologies (Nasdaq: DEFT), a financial technology company focused on bridging traditional capital markets with decentralized finance, has announced a significant expansion of its operations, marked by its recent Nasdaq listing and a strategic entry into the real-world asset (RWA) sector with a new regulated stablecoin. The company's common shares began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "DEFT" on May 12, 2025.
Real-World Assets (RWA): A Beginner’s Look at On-Chain Investments
For times, the world of crypto was substantially viewed as a tone- contained macrocosm — detached from the" real world," floating on abstract commemoratives, complicated tech slang, and academic trading. But a quiet shift has begun to change this narrative. It's called Real- World means( RWAs), and it’s breathing a new kind of life into blockchain by linking palpable value from the offline world to on- chain platforms.
Upgrading Capital Markets with Tokenized RWAs: Kadena's Annelise Osborne
RWA tokens represent a convergence of traditional and decentralized finance (DeFi), and have the power to transform tangible assets, such as fiat currency, property, and stocks, into digital tokens on the blockchain. RWA tokenization is projected to become crypto's next trillion-dollar market and play a major role in the future global economy. Some analysts estimate the tokenized RWA market to reach somewhere between $2 and $30 trillion by the end of the decade.
Digital Assets and RWA is the Key to Unlocking Underutilized Capital in Family Offices
Family offices manage vast amounts of wealth but often struggle with liquidity constraints, legacy asset lock-ups, and inefficient estate planning. Digital assets and real world assets (RWA) offer transformative solutions by enabling family offices to tokenize illiquid holdings, diversify portfolios, and implement next-generation wealth transfer strategies.
Circle Internet: Scaling Beyond USDC Toward A Tokenized Economy Powerhouse
The Circle Internet Group (CRCL) IPO is finally here. The IPO price was $31, but CRCL quickly went up over 100% on trading debut and closed day one trading at $83.23 (168% higher than IPO price). It’s been a long walk for Circle to this point, following the abandoned SPAC deal in 2022, and the long campaign that followed to position USDC (USDC-USD) as a fully transparent, compliant stablecoin within the emerging global financial infrastructure. Circle’s premier stablecoin USDC
GENIUS Act Sets Stablecoin Rules, Leaves Trump Exemption Intact
The Senate has passed the GENIUS Act, the first federal bill to establish oversight for US dollar-backed stablecoins — a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value.\r\n\r\nThis lays the groundwork for a sweeping regulatory approach to digital payment tokens. As reported by CNBC and Yahoo Finance, the legislation gave the Treasury oversight. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent projected the US stablecoin market could grow to $2 trillion in the next few years.
Digital Assets and RWA: Redefining Luxury Asset Ownership Through Tokenization
Luxury assets such as high-end watches, designer jewelry, vintage cars, and rare collectibles have traditionally been exclusive to elite investors due to their high value and illiquidity. Digital assets and real world assets (RWA) are now transforming this landscape through tokenization, allowing broader participation, fractional ownership, and enhanced market transparency.
Xend Finance, Risevest launch tokenized stocks platform in Africa
Xend Finance, a decentralized finance project backed by Binance and Google, is launching a platform in Africa to offer tokenized access to global real estate and stock markets. Partners in the launch include Risevest, a digital wealth management platform that offers individual and institutional investors exposure to global markets. The company recently acquired a broker-dealer license in the United States.
RWA tokenization market surges to new all-time high
Analytic platform RWA.xyz noted that on May 6, tokenized real-world assets reached an all-time high of $22.11B. On-chain data also showed that tokenized real-world assets saw a 10.5% jump in the last 30 days. The analytics firm showed that RWA total holders reached slightly over 100K, a 5.64% from 30 days ago. At the time of publication, there are also a total of 189 tokenized real-world assets issuers.
Digital Assets and RWA: The Next Frontier in Venture Capital Funding
Venture capital (VC) is evolving as digital assets and real world assets (RWA) introduce new ways to fund startups, track equity, and manage exits. By leveraging blockchain technology, VC firms and entrepreneurs can create more transparent, liquid, and inclusive funding ecosystems.
First Web3 Integrations With Blackrock And The RWA Trend
The Real-World Asset (RWA) trend has emerged as a significant sector in the financial industry, blending traditional finance with blockchain technology, peaking in 2024. Leading asset management company BlackRock has made major advancements in Real World Assets (RWA) after the BitcoinBitcoin 0.0% ETF launch earlier this year, now managing $21 billion in BTC volume. The rights to a variety of assets, including bonds, stocks, real estate, and cultural assets, will be tokenized through RWA products
Making Sense of Why FIs Are Tokenizing Real-World Assets
The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is emerging as more than just a token exercise. It’s another function of the blockchain landscape that has captured the imagination of various players across payments, finance and commerce: the ability for organizations to represent ownership rights of a real-world asset as a digital, on-chain token. Tokenized RWAs have the potential to make assets more liquid, accessible and efficient while enhancing transparency, security and global reach.
Digital Assets and RWA: Empowering Retail Investors Like Never Before
Retail investors have historically faced barriers to accessing high-quality assets due to high minimums, complex procedures, and limited liquidity. Digital assets and real world assets (RWA) are dismantling these obstacles, giving everyday investors unprecedented opportunities to build diversified, income-generating portfolios.
Asset Tokenisation: Blockchain’s “Killer Use-Case”
Asset tokenisation allows financial assets such as stocks, bonds and funds as well as real-world assets (RWAs) such as commodities, art, patents and real estate to be represented by digital tokens on a blockchain. These digital tokens confer ownership of and legal rights to an asset on the token holder. And because the blockchain itself is a public, immutable ledger, the technology ensures token holders that their ownership of underlying assets cannot be erased or compromised in any way.
Why Institutional Investors Are Bullish on Tokenized Assets
The results from a survey of 352 institutional investors reveal how real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is expanding. The survey reveals that 57% of investors show active interest in RWAs and 35% show a desire to know more about them. The finance sector is undergoing significant transformation because investors now understand blockchain technology because it provides better performance with secure operations and easy accessibility.
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