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🥳 Welcome to 2025
RWA World Newsletter - Jan 3, 2025
Happy New Year! We hope everyone is starting 2025 strong – it will be a great one for our industry. 💪
Many are breathing a sigh of relief after having wrapped up the paperwork for 2024, so it’s been rather quiet on the tokenization front. Nevertheless, progress never sleeps, and folks are still moving the needle – we love seeing it. 👏
🎯🔥 Rapid Fire Takeaways:
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📊 Gold, Stables, and BlackRock
While there’s no gold standard for commodity tokenization yet, plenty of the precious metal is on-chain! Matrixdock recently integrated its XAUm gold token into Binance Wallet, while Huarpe Minera launched its HuarpeToken backed by its gold reserves. 🥇
To some (like me), coffee is worth its weight in gold, and Agridex recently settled the first-ever coffee contracts on Solana. Speaking of Solana, Parcl recently achieved $100 million in daily trading volume, marking a tidy milestone for RWAs on the chain. ⛓️
How are folks paying for on-chain assets? Mostly stablecoins – meaning Tether’s sharp decline on the back of MiCA taking effect is significant. It’s the largest since the FTX crash back in 2022. However, the giant remains undeterred, having recently made its first crypto VC fund investment into Arcanum Capital. 💵
While Tether is reconfiguring its footing, the Frax stablecoin is voting to add BlackRock’s BUIDL fund as a backing asset, further expanding the TradFi giant’s DeFi integration. It’s now a common story for traditional financial entities. Franklin Templeton sees more tokenized funds and ETFs in 2025, and Robinhood wants to become the next tokenization pioneer. 🔭
⚖️ Regulations and Stipulations
Governing bodies wrapped up 2024 in various ways – some offered clarity, while others held the status quo. A Hong Kong court ordered disclosure in an important DAO case concerning potential misappropriation of funds, calling into question who has ultimate responsibility in these collective investment structures. 💭
On the clarity side of the equation, Cambodia is now embracing stablecoins but keeping Bitcoin and Ether on the ban list, while US crypto executives are hoping for some deeper clarity from their home jurisdiction in 2025. With the IRS issuing some temporary crypto accounting relief, they might get their wish. 🙏
Singapore certainly isn’t pulling any punches, aiming to become the crypto hub of Asia on the backs of Project Guardian and its new risk-adjusted regulations for digital assets. Companies are likely excited by the move, but they don’t seem deterred either way – illegal crypto ads in the UK continue despite the FCA’s recent warnings. 👀
🍞 Let’s Get This (Tokenized) Bread
It’s already been a great start to 2025.
With the market firming up, a new cycle is upon us.
Make the most of it by staying up to date with the latest and greatest in asset tokenization at rwa.world.
See you next week!