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Real World Assets (RWA)

Physical or traditional financial assets like real estate, government bonds, or commodities that get tokenized and put on a blockchain.

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Physical or traditional financial assets like real estate, government bonds, or commodities that get tokenized and put on a blockchain. Protocols like Ondo Finance and Centrifuge bring U.S. Treasuries and private credit on-chain. BlackRock's BUIDL fund showed that major institutions are taking RWA tokenization seriously.

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