RWA Tokens Are the Next 50x Trend in Digital Assets, Report Says

RWA tokens represent a range of assets, including stablecoins, securities and treasuries, commodities, real estate and others.

Real World Asset (RWA) tokens are set to become the next major trend in the digital assets industry, with a recent report from Tren Finance predicting that these tokens could reach a market size of $10 trillion by 2030.

RWA tokens represent a broad range of assets, including stablecoins, securities and treasuries, commodities, real estate, and others. These tokens are created by minting digital tokens on a blockchain to represent an underlying real-world asset, such as a barrel of oil, a share in a company, or a dollar.

Once minted, the tokens can be stored in digital wallets and traded, moved, or transferred to any other party. This can increase liquidity, introduce new levels of transparency and efficiency, and make peer-to-peer transfer of such assets possible globally.

Since every transaction on a public blockchain is timestamped, RWA tokenization enables easier auditing of an asset’s history, making it easier to learn who owned or held it, for how long, and more. It could also help settle ownership disputes, although courts would still be needed to resolve such matters in some cases.

There are other benefits, too. RWA tokenization can also make traditionally illiquid assets like real estate or art liquid. Aside from the potential for fractional ownership, making these assets more easily tradable would make economies more efficient.

RWA tokens can also increase access, potentially leading to greater wealth equality and opportunities regardless of location. Imagine 1,000 tokens representing parts of a Picasso painting owned by investors in Canada, Brazil, Nigeria, Singapore, China, Australia, and Fiji. This is possible with real-world asset tokenization.

These tokens aren’t limited to representing tangible assets like those mentioned so far. They can also constitute stocks, interest-bearing bonds, and other income-generating assets. Smart contracts can determine the paying of dividends and yield where necessary, simplifying what are usually intensely admin-heavy processes.

While real-world asset tokenization is taking off quickly, a single scalable blockchain capable of underpinning everything is required before it reaches its full potential.

Right now, financial firms like the ones surveyed by Tren Finance mostly use private blockchains they control. Having tokens on private chains is somewhat of an improvement over traditional databases, but for a truly interoperable, interconnected global financial system with universally tradable RWAs to be realized, one scalable utility blockchain will have to emerge to underpin it.

Currently, there’s only one proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain capable of processing the vast number of transactions required to run such a global system. The BSV blockchain recently surpassed one million transactions per second (TPS) in testing with fees of fractions of a cent, and it’s capable of even greater numbers. Even at this early stage, BSV can process all of Visa’s (NYSE:V) annual transactions in just over 59 hours.

If blockchains are akin to sets of records or financial books, introducing thousands of them offers only a slight improvement over the current way of doing things. Everything must run on one chain for a truly transparent, auditable, and immutable system to emerge. In that reality, scaling is the only thing that matters.