\r\nRipple’s XRP Ledger is launching tokenized commercial paper to further RWA development\r\nPowerBeats\r\n06/12/2025, 03:43 AM\r\n\r\nCollect\r\nOn June 10, Bloomberg reported that Guggenheim Capital\'s subsidiary Guggenheim Treasury Services has launched its digital commercial paper on the XRP ledger associated with Ripple, providing institutional investors with the opportunity to invest in short-term debt instruments through a decentralized financial network.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is evolving beyond crypto-native assets as digital assets and real world assets (RWA) become integral components of its infrastructure. By integrating tangible assets like real estate, commodities, and corporate debt into DeFi protocols, users gain access to yield-generating opportunities backed by real economic value. This fusion enhances capital efficiency, diversifies risk, and brings institutional-grade assets within reach of retail investors.
On-chain data showed that tokenized real-world assets just hit an all-time high of $22.1 billion, a 10.5% rise in just 30 days. RWA.xyz analytics platform revealed the surge was driven by private credit and U.S. Treasury debt. Last week alone saw many announcements from traditional financial institutions and blockchain-native companies advancing their RWA initiatives. Companies like BlackRock, Libre, and MultiBank revealed their new RWA initiatives, signaling growing RWA adoption
The credit rating service sees growing interest from traditional asset managers, insurers, and brokerages looking to offer clients access between fiat and digital markets. “Tokenized short-term liquidity funds are a small but rapidly growing product,” notes a June 3 report shared with Cointelegraph. These funds, typically backed by US Treasurys or other low-risk assets, operate similarly to traditional money market funds but use blockchain to issue and manage fractional shares
Governments worldwide are exploring the potential of digital assets and real world assets (RWA) by issuing tokenized debt instruments such as bonds and treasury notes. This innovative approach aims to modernize public finance, improve investor access, and enhance the efficiency of sovereign debt markets.
What Are Real-World Assets? Real-world assets encompass a diverse range of tangible and intangible resources that exist in the physical economy. These include commercial real estate, fine art, intellectual property, stocks, bonds, and commodities—representing untapped value worth hundreds of trillions of dollars. RWA tokenization involves converting ownership rights to these traditional assets into digital RWA tokens on blockchain networks.
Tokenization has become a valuable alternative for founders seeking to avoid the often burdensome traditional VC/PE funding route. Tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is the process of converting ownership rights in a real-world asset — such as real estate, equity, artwork, or commodities — into a digital token that exists on a blockchain. Each token represents a share, claim, or stake in the underlying asset. Once tokenized, the asset can be traded, transferred, or used as collateral
Art and collectibles have long been considered alternative investments, often reserved for the elite. But with the rise of digital assets and real world assets (RWA), these markets are becoming more accessible, transparent, and liquid. Blockchain technology is enabling the tokenization of fine art, rare coins, vintage cars, and even sports memorabilia, allowing investors to participate in unique and high-value asset classes.
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India wants to compete with international financial centers (IFCs) such as Singapore, Dubai (DIFC) and the Abu Dhabi Global Market. Hence, in 2019 it created its own International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in GIFT City, Gujarat. Now the local regulation authority IFSCA is conducting a consultation on DLT and its use in Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization. It wants to consider the design of secondary markets for tokens from first principles.
The insurance industry is undergoing a digital transformation, with digital assets and real world assets (RWA) at the forefront of innovation. From parametric insurance to catastrophe bonds, blockchain-based solutions are enhancing risk transfer mechanisms, automating claims processing, and improving transparency across the sector.
This is it, the big showdown – a Mexican standoff! The tradfi institutions, the RWA fintechs, and the crypto degens. The good, the bad, and the ugly – but not necessarily in any order. And who shoots first may depend on whether the law rolls into town. To recap, the situation for tokenizing real-world assets is stuck. Fintechs are tokenizing asset such as loans, but these lack liquidity. There’s no market-making industry. The first product to be tokenized was cash
Disruptive technologies, such as asset tokenization, could transform real estate over the next few years. Built on blockchain technology, tokenization converts physical or financial assets into bite-sized, digital representations that can be securely traded or owned in fractional portions on a digital platform. Tokenized real estate could not only pave the way for new markets and products, but also give real estate organizations an opportunity to overcome challenges
The cryptocurrency market has recently experienced significant turbulence, with total market capitalization falling below $2.7 trillion and a 7% single-day decline on April 7, driven by U.S. policy-induced volatility. In times of heightened market uncertainty, gold traditionally serves as a recognized safe haven. With the closing price of gold stood at $3,037 per ounce, gold-backed crypto assets have similarly demonstrated resilience. Assets such as XAUT (Tether Gold), representing \"crypto gold
Private equity has long been dominated by institutional players due to high entry barriers and limited liquidity. However, digital assets and real world assets (RWA) are changing the game by enabling fractional ownership, increased transparency, and broader investor access. This evolution is transforming how private equity deals are structured, executed, and monitored.
Institutional adoption brings new demands for blockchain infrastructure. Zero Hash exemplifies this shift, processing over $2 billion in tokenized fund flows across 22 blockchains in just four months. Their rails now support seven different stablecoins, powering settlements for giants like BlackRock and Franklin Templeton.\r\n\r\nRegulatory compliance drives innovation, too. Chintai secured licenses from Singapore’s MAS for compliant issuance and trading.
What Are Real-World Assets? RWAs are physical or financial assets with inherent value, including commodities, bonds, real estate, mutual funds, and equities. These assets are critical to traditional finance but often suffer from limited accessibility, slow transactions, and high costs due to reliance on intermediaries. Buying or selling RWAs can involve extensive paperwork, regulatory approvals, and settlement delays that make transactions inefficient. What Is RWA Tokenization?
Sustainability is becoming a central focus in global finance, and digital assets and real world assets (RWA) are playing a key role in advancing this agenda. By enabling transparent, auditable, and programmable financial instruments, blockchain-based solutions are empowering investors to support environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals while generating competitive returns.
Tokenization is turning physical assets into digital tokens on a blockchain. Tokens can represent ownership of assets such as real estate, stocks, or even art and can be traded, purchased, or sold. The greatest advantage of tokenization is fractional ownership, where investors can own a fraction of an asset instead of purchasing it whole. Tokenization breaks down most of the barriers present in conventional asset investing.
In a thought-provoking Hubbis webinar titled Gold 360° – Empowering Wealth Advisers to Guide HNW Clients on May 29, 2025, Cici Lu, Head of Research at Matrixdock, illuminated the transformative potential of tokenized gold for high-net-worth (HNW) investors. Joined by other industry experts from the World Gold Council, BlackRock and J. Rotbart & Co., Lu shared how blockchain-based gold tokenization is redefining wealth preservation
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