What it measures
Real-world assets tokenized on-chain — size of the tokenization thesis.
This gauge measures the dollar value of real-world assets tokenized on public blockchains — treasuries, money-market funds, private credit and their peers. It is the tokenization thesis in one number: traditional financial assets actually living on-chain, not announced in a press release.
How to read it
RWA value is the institutional adoption signal with the least noise: the products are regulated, the issuers are named (BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Ondo), and growth requires real capital in real funds. Sustained growth validates the thesis that bonds and funds migrate on-chain; a plateau would suggest tokenization is settling into a niche. One honest caveat: most current RWA value is tokenized US treasuries — a yield product — so growth partly tracks the appeal of dollar yields, not only the appeal of tokenization.
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Frequently asked questions
What counts as a tokenized real-world asset?
Traditional financial assets issued or wrapped as on-chain tokens: tokenized treasury and money-market funds, private credit, tokenized commodities and equities. Stablecoins are usually counted separately, though they are technically tokenized dollars.
Why is BlackRock’s BUIDL fund significant?
BUIDL was the moment tokenization moved from startups to the world’s largest asset manager choosing public blockchains for a regulated fund. Its growth — and its expansion to multiple chains — is the strongest single evidence that institutions treat public rails as production infrastructure.
Where does this data come from?
From DeFiLlama’s protocol data, summing the market value of protocols in its RWA category, refreshed daily by the Moonkelp agent.
Data & method
Collected automatically by the Moonkelp agent, validated against plausibility bands before anything is written. How the pipeline works →
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