Tokenized Real World Assets span treasuries, real estate, stocks, commodities and private credit. The sector is still small in TradFi terms but it's growing very, very fast.
Standard Chartered head of digital assets research Geoff Kendrick predicted in a recent research note that assets in DeFi could reach $2.7 trillion by 2030.
He said that, currently, only 3% of stablecoins and 10% of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are used in DeFi. However, he predicts this will rise to 30% by 2030.
That would be a 37-fold increase from where they are now, but the growing tempo of tokenization gives Kendrick reason for an optimistic outlook.
The market for tokenized real-world assets — which includes stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, and carbon credits — hit $32.22 billion in distributed on-chain value by the end of June. That’s almost three times the roughly $11.8 billion RWA market from a year earlier. Add stablecoins, which are just tokenized real world fiat, into the mix, and the broader tokenized market sits north of $328.8 billion.
Total RWA asset holders have grown to 937,928, up 13% last month alone, according to data from RWA.xyz.
Here’s a closer look at exactly what is driving growth across different RWA verticals.
US Treasury bills, notes, and bonds are the largest tokenized asset category by on-chain value at $15 billion. They’re familiar for investors, low-risk, liquid and generate yield — something that stablecoins can’t do yet.
Launched in March 2024, Blackrock’s BUIDL fund reached over $2.9 billion in total asset value by June 2025. It’s currently at $2.23 billion as some funds declined due to capital reallocation and competition between platforms. It has distributed more than $100 million dividends and operates on Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, Aptos, and BNB Chain.
In February 2026, Uniswap Labs and Securitize announced that BUIDL shares were available for trade on UniswapX. This put a major, regulated, institutional tokenized fund on a decentralized exchange (albeit with restrictions on who can buy and sell it).
“This is the unlock we've been working toward: bringing the trust and regulatory standards of traditional finance to the speed and openness for which DeFi is known," said Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize.
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