🔍 RWA Panel: $36B Success or Just Digital Velvet Rope?

🎭 Digital Velvet Rope

By DIA DAO | Open-Source Oracles for Web3
Dec 4, 2025, 3:33 PM
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Tokenized RWAs reached $36B in 2025, but industry leaders debate whether we're truly democratizing finance or simply moving traditional barriers on-chain.​

Key discussion points from Infra Gardens Buenos Aires:

  • Treasury dominance vs.​ real demand - Are we seeing genuine adoption or just yield-chasing?
  • Cross-chain compliance hurdles - Regulatory frameworks struggle across different blockchains
  • Infrastructure gaps - What's missing to reach the projected $360B milestone?

The panel featured experts from CoinDesk, Protocol Labs, Sei Network, Paxos, and Goldsky discussing the real challenges behind the growth numbers.​

Recent momentum includes:

  • Aave Horizon crossing $590M in institutional demand
  • European regulatory approvals for tokenized funds
  • Major banks launching tokenized deposit programs

While the numbers look impressive, the core question remains: Is tokenization creating new access or just digitizing existing exclusivity?

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The RWA expansion continues. → Ondo gets EU approval for tokenized stocks. → Robinhood plans permissionless equity access for DeFi. → HSBC launches tokenized deposits in the US and UAE. Learn what else happened in RWAs in the past week ↓

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RWA Weekly News: Regulatory Approvals and Permissionless Access Ondo gains EU approval for tokenized stocks, Robinhood plans a permissionless DeFi framework, HSBC launches tokenized deposits, and Obex raises $37M for RWA stablecoin accelerator. RWA developments this week 🧵

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