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@surgence_io "Programmable" is not just about taking TradFi assets and putting them on a blockchain. It’s about making that capital infinitely more efficient and composable.

Tokenization is bringing trillions of dollars in real-world value onchain. Stablecoins, treasuries, equities, real estate, commodities, and credit are all being rebuilt as programmable assets. Here's how the ecosystem looks today 🧵

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@RWAFoundation_ Stocks and commodities clearly lead in wallet numbers but we know the heavy TVL is sitting quietly in the Treasuries and Credit tiers. The retail vs institutional divide is super clear here.

There are over 700,000 Total RWA Asset Holders. As of now: • Stocks: 219,231 • Commodities: 218,976 • Asset-Backed Credit: 86,848 • Diversified Credit: 68,458 • US Treasuries: 61,095 • Active Strategies: 25,221 • Specialty Finance: 13,982 • Real Estate: 10,707 • Corporate Credit: 10,327 • Non-US Gov Debt: 9,259 • Venture Capital: 1,389 • Private Equity: 302

@DWFLabs @ag_dwf Exactly. Liquidity gets the headlines, but the real unlock is composability. Making assets transferable means they can finally be plugged directly into DeFi without the usual TradFi friction! 🙌

Tokenization is like the internet in 1996. @ag_dwf explains why 👇

@ScofieldOnchain Love seeing the shoutout to the HK and Dubai summits!

RWA Week in Review A few pieces from this week 👇 RWA TVL HITS $30.82B RWA distributed value crossed $30.82B (+5.48% / 30d), with holders climbing to 740,355. DUBAI RWA SUMMIT Dubai hosted RWA Summit as part of global RWA Week. 400+ senior participants. Speakers included DMCC executives, VARA regulators, dYdX Foundation, Mastercard, ZIGChain, and Solana Superteam Middle East. Hong Kong's RWA Summit earlier this year drew 2,322 registrations. Dubai's was bigger. The Asia and Middle East corridor is picking up some serious pace. REAL FINANCE GOES LIVE @RealFinOfficial, @RWAFoundation_ member & a Layer 1 purpose-built for institutional RWAs, completed its TGE this week following a $25M commitment from Nimbus Capital. They're targeting $500M in tokenized RWAs within year one. PROJECTION: $100B BY YEAR-END Centrifuge COO Jurgen Blumberg projected RWA TVL exceeds $100B by end of 2026. Ripple and BCG estimate the total RWA market at $18.9 trillion by 2033 (53% CAGR). HYPERLIQUID HIP-3 CAPTURING RWA PERPS Hyperliquid's HIP-3 contract grabbed 28.6% of Q1 RWA perp volume. Open interest across RWA perps hit $6.68B . The infrastructure for tokenized derivatives is maturing alongside spot.

@RWAwatchlist_ The real RWA revolution was never going to be a flashy retail launch—it’s massive backend providers quietly upgrading their plumbing. Real shares over synthetics changes everything for the market structure.

🚨 The biggest player behind stock ownership is going on-chain. Computershare is partnering with Securitize to bring real, tokenized equities to U.S. markets. Not synthetic tokens. Real shares on blockchain. They already service ~58% of the S&P 500.

@Gems_Launchpad It’s about utility and liquidity in 2026 ✨

RWAs are no longer just another crypto narrative. ✅ Tokenized Treasuries. ✅ Private credit. ✅ Gold. ✅ Real assets. ✅ Real institutional money moving on-chain. The RWA market is now around $30.5B, up 11% this month and +66% YTD. Private credit is leading. Treasuries are next. Gold is gaining momentum. @BlackRock, BUIDL, @OndoFinance, Maple, Centrifuge, and tokenized gold products are helping push the category into the mainstream. The key difference? This is not just hype. It is infrastructure. In a choppy market, does RWA still look strong? Is this still early, or already the next big crypto GEM? @Gems_Trade_ | @Gems_VIP_ | @Gems_Launchpad

@MilkRoad Exactly!! Institutional trust is the missing bridge between the tech and the actual volume. Retail investors aren't going to trade tokenized commodities until the big players validate them first.

This is the biggest problem with RWAs: Trust. Over $200B+ of real-world assets have already been tokenized onchain yet activity is still relatively low. Why? Because most investors still don’t trust these assets. No trust = no liquidity = no volume Today, you can already trade things like equities, oil, and gold onchain. But adoption remains limited because the institutions that people trust most are still moving slowly. That changes when TradFi makes real moves onchain. Once major banks, asset managers, and financial institutions start issuing and trading RWAs on blockchain rails, trust grows. And when trust grows, volume and adoption follow. The easiest way to bet on the growth of RWAs? It's probably to get exposure to Layer 1s that are building specifically for RWAs like @RealFinOfficial.

@WorldOfMercek That's right~ TradFi doesn't want crypto risk, they just want the operational efficiency of the rails. Tokenizing the boring assets first is the only logical way to build trust in the infrastructure.

Most people are still looking at RWA from the wrong angle. It had a hype phase, attention moved somewhere else, and now people act like the story is already over. But I think the real movement is happening more quietly now. Tokenized asset value is getting close to $30B, and the interesting part is not only the size. It is where the money is coming from. The first serious wave is not the riskiest assets. It is the boring ones. US Treasuries, government debt, commodities, credit. That says a lot. Capital is basically saying: I want blockchain rails, but I do not want crypto-style risk. That is an important distinction. For years RWA was framed like traditional finance coming into DeFi. But what we are seeing now feels slightly different. It looks more like traditional finance slowly moving its safest assets onto better rails first. That is usually how these transitions begin. The safest instruments come first. Then, if the infrastructure works, more complex assets can follow. Stocks, real estate, private equity, credit markets and many other things that still live mostly offchain today. So I think dismissing RWA as an old hype narrative misses the bigger picture. This is quieter now. But probably more serious. In finance, the biggest shifts usually do not start with the loudest assets. They start with the boring ones.

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The state of RWAs right now ↓ 🥇 Bonds 🥈 Precious Metals 🥉 Private Credit Everyone says "Real Estate is the killer use case for RWAs." The data says otherwise. @DefiLlama

RWA growth keeps picking up ↓ ‣ $30B+ in total value ‣ +10% in 30 days ‣ +106% YoY Issuance is scaling, and the next phase is making these assets more usable onchain. ⚡️ @rwa_xyz

Tokenizing an asset is easy. Making it useful is the hard part. The 3 biggest bottlenecks to mass adoption: 1. The Liquidity Illusion: "24/7 liquidity" is a myth when assets are fragmented across dozens of siloed chains. Trying to sell them feels like Facebook Marketplace. 2. The Data Disconnect: We need oracles that track real-world occupancy, revenue, and loan defaults—not just exchange prices. 3. The Access Bottleneck: If users have to understand "gas," "LPs," and "bridges," they won't use it. The first trillionaires in this space won't be the ones tokenizing buildings. It will be the builders fixing the invisible infrastructure—the cross-chain liquidity engines, oracles, and unified dashboards.

Wall Street is moving on-chain because it’s a tech upgrade, not a trend. Funds get programmability, commodities get 24/7 access, and equities get instant settlement. Asset tokenization isn’t just a crypto use case — it’s the use case.

Everyone is talking about RWAs, but look at the actual penetration rates (@tokenterminal): Stablecoins: 0.3% Funds: 0.02% Equities: 0.0008% The 100,000x upside isn’t in launching more tokens—it’s in building the unified cross-chain liquidity layer to actually absorb the $400T+ waiting to come on-chain. Time to build the pipes.

GM folks. Here’s how we’re looking at the start of this week⬇️ RWA TVL: $29.44B (+9.89% / 30d) Holders: 729,950 (+3.91%) Stablecoin market cap: $302.44B (245M holders) Weekly delta: +$400M Tokenized Treasuries approaching $14B USYC in the lead at $2.9B, BUIDL close behind Commodities at $5.36B (+6% / 30d) rebounded after last month’s contraction Tokenized stocks crossed $1B 🗞️ CLARITY Act advancing but not yet at markup - Polymarket odds 55–70% for 2026 passage MiCA enforcement live across EU Bitfinex flagged $25B of idle RWAs earning nothing and claimed activation is the next phase.

@Bitfinex (via @ScofieldOnchain) just perfectly summarized the RWA liquidity crisis. You can’t activate $25B when it’s fragmented across dozens of chains. The market needs a unified liquidity layer to fix exactly this. Time to put those assets to work.

World domination later. Liquidity first.

@helio91s We can’t agree more!

@502Protocol the boring stuff always matters most in the end. FCA rules, CLARITY Act, Japan FIEA. these create the infrastructure that institutions actually need before they can deploy capital at scale

The most bullish things happening in crypto right now aren’t meme coins. They’re boring, unsexy regulatory frameworks. 🏛️ Japan classifying crypto as a financial product. The FDIC regulating stablecoin backing. Boring regulation is what unlocks trillions in boring institutional money. Are you paying attention to the macro shift? 👇