Real-World Assets (RWA)

In one of the most ironic statements made this year, long-time Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff has just started a campaign to draw people to tokenise gold at a time when gold is experiencing a 25% trillion plunge in its value this week.

China Merchants Bank International Asset Management (CMBI), a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of one of China’s largest commercial banks, has captured the attention of the crypto world by tokenizing its $3.8 billion money market fund on BNB Chain — a move that signals both ambition and audacity in a region where regulatory oversight remains a looming question mark.

Real-World Assets are making waves, turning gold, luxury goods, and corporate products into tradable digital assets on the blockchain.

China’s war on crypto is taking a new shape. Unlike the sweeping, highly public bans of 2021 that outlawed trading and mining overnight, Beijing is now pursuing a quieter, more tactical campaign—this time targeting the booming real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market emerging in Hong Kong.

Trust Wallet, the self-custodial crypto wallet owned by Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, has officially integrated tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), marking a major milestone in the expansion of real-world assets (RWAs) onchain.

In a landmark move for both blockchain and traditional finance, China’s state-owned Futian Investment Holding has issued the world’s first public real-world asset (RWA) bond on the Ethereum blockchain—reflecting a significant, if selective, embrace of digital asset infrastructure by the Chinese financial sector.

Emirates Airlines has just joined forces with Crypto.com to introduce cryptocurrency payments solutions across Dubai's travel ecosystem.

Franklin Templeton has been approved to launch a tokenised US dollar money market fund in Singapore, highlighting the city-state’s leadership in regulated asset tokenisation and rising institutional interest in blockchain finance.

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has linked the recent Mantra collapse to two individuals: Reef Finance founder Denko Mancheski and X user Fukugo Ryoshu.

Newton DAO 已推出 Newton Finance Blockchain（NewFi），一个侧链，旨在增强全球支付、DeFi 和 RWA 应用。现有区块链将更名为 Newton Core，经济模型不变，NEW 代币总供应量保持不变。NewFi 兼容 EVM，支持快速交易和可扩展性，并通过 NewBridge 连接 Newton Core，实现代币跨链转移。