Real World Assets

Lucas Vogelsang (left) and Base creator Jesse Pollak at the 2023 RWA Summit in New York City. (Centrifuge)
Tokenization Pioneer Centrifuge Unveils Lending Market With Morpho, Coinbase
The institutional real-world asset lending market combines Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, and Morpho Vaults using three varieties of tokenized Treasury bills.
Lucas Vogelsang (left) and Base creator Jesse Pollak at the 2023 RWA Summit in New York City. (Centrifuge)

Tokenized Treasury funds passed $2 billion in market cap on Saturday. (Source: RWA.xyz)
Tokenized Treasury Funds Pass $2B Market Cap Amid BlackRock’s Explosive Growth
BlackRock's BUIDL has quickly topped $500 million in market cap.
Tokenized Treasury funds passed $2 billion in market cap on Saturday. (Source: RWA.xyz)

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Tokenized Asset Issuer Backed to Offer Crypto RWAs in LatAm With eNor Securities
ENor Securities, an exchange based in El Salvador, will offer Backed’s bTokens to retail investors in Latin America.
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Frankfurt, Germany, where KfW and the ECB is headquartered. (Sinan Erg/Unsplash)
German State-Owned Development Bank Prepares for Tokenized Bond Issuance with Boerse Stuttgart Digital in ECB Trial
Traditional finance institutions are increasingly exploring ways of putting assets like bonds, credit and funds on blockchain rails, known as RWA tokenization, to pursue opera...
Frankfurt, Germany, where KfW and the ECB is headquartered. (Sinan Erg/Unsplash)

A closeup of a US hundred dollar bill (Benjamin Franklin side).
Franklin Templeton's Tokenized Money Market Fund Expands to Arbitrum
The $420 million OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund was already on Stellar and Polygon.
A closeup of a US hundred dollar bill (Benjamin Franklin side).

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Ripple to Allocate $10M to Tokenized U.S. Treasury Bills on XRP Ledger
This is part of a larger fund that Ripple will allocate to tokenized T-bills provided by OpenEden and other issuers.
(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Deutsche Telekom (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)
Deutsche Telekom Joins RWA-Focused XDC as Infrastructure Provider in Digital Asset Push
The company already runs nodes on multiple blockchain networks and is considering bitcoin mining, its web3 head revealed last month at a conference.
Deutsche Telekom (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Agriculture (Pete Linforth/Pixabay)
AgriDex Settles First Agricultural Trade on Solana Blockchain
AgriDex "settled the transactions almost instantly, charging only 0.15% to each side of the trade" while in traditional systems "fees can be several percentage points per trad...
Agriculture (Pete Linforth/Pixabay)

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)
BlackRock's $500M Tokenized Fund Pitches for Ethena's RWA Investment Plan; ENA Rallies 22%
Ethena's proposal to allocate funds to tokenized real-world assets for yield follows similar actions by crypto lender MakerDAO and Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum's development orga...
(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)