The tokenised real-world asset market just ripped a completely unhinged 256.7% climb, ballooning from $5.42 billion in early 2025 to $19.32 billion by Q1 2026, according to CoinGecko. RWAs, for the blissfully offline, are blockchain tokens tied to real assets like gold, stocks, bonds or credit. It’s basically finance taking dusty Wall Street products, slapping them onto crypto rails, and pretending this was the plan all along.
And the money is stampeding in. Tokenised gold smashed $90.7 billion in quarterly volume, while tokenised stocks hit $15.12 billion. After years of calling crypto a clown casino, institutions are now sneaking into the tent wearing fake moustaches and asking for “regulated on-chain exposure.”
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