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Real-world assets

A real-world-asset token is a claim on something that exists outside the chain: a Treasury bill, a bar of gold, a pool of loans. The token moves at crypto speed; the asset behind it does not.

Everything therefore depends on the issuer and the custodian. On-chain, the token is trustless; off-chain, someone has to actually hold the bar and actually honour the redemption. That is a legal relationship, not a cryptographic one.

Tokenized Treasuries are the category that has grown fastest, for an unglamorous reason: they pay a yield that on-chain dollars do not, and they settle in minutes rather than days.

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Coins in Real-world assets, by market capitalisation
#CoinPrice24h7dMarket cap24h volume
31Tether GoldXAUT$4,159▲ +0.2%▼ −0.2%$3.03B$130.2M
40OndoONDO$0.4357▼ −0.7%▼ −13.8%$2.12B$136.9M
45PAX GoldPAXG$4,159▲ +0.2%▼ −0.2%$1.83B$111.7M
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Market data as of 41 min. ago

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