real world assets
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Plus, all the world is green as prices across the crypto space rally, with solana reaching a nearly two-week high
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If we tokenize all assets in a speculative rush, the risk of creating illiquid markets and trapped value will manifest on a large scale
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Some critics dismiss RWAs as tokenized nonsense — but RWAs could truly revolutionize how we trade assets globally
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Plus, the rise of RWAs could bring about a significant shift in how real-world investments are managed and accessed
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Roughly 90% of validators have upgraded to the new software, and many have reported using the scheduler
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I know it is not in their nature, but US regulators could learn a lot by researching the digital asset frameworks that overseas regulators have already gotten right
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Plus, Puffer joins the restaking round club and a Bitcoin Runes DEX announces seed funding
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A third party accounting firm will audit these reserves and Ripple will publish monthly attestations
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Medium exchange remains the “killer function” for stablecoins, Circle’s Stephen Leahy notes in latest stablecoin report
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It’s not reasonable to expect someone who trades stocks on Robinhood to also have the ability to appropriately discern their risk with many RWAs
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Banking giant brings a Wellington Management-issued private equity fund onto Avalanche’s Spruce subnet as part of a proof of concept
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No sane investor should be choosing a tokenized version of a product over the original if they have access to it
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ERC-3643 is designed to deny transactions or actions if counterparties fail to meet compliance requirements
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USD-pegged stablecoins remain the most popular tokenized asset, and adoption remains low for other “real-world assets”
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The real transformation is just beginning — RWAs will be, by many multiples, the largest category in DeFi
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Coinbase is making a big push to bring institutions over to crypto, with tokenized real-world assets taking center stage
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