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RWA Has a Bigger Problem Than Tokenization Everyone is talking about how quickly real-world assets are moving on-chain. But the more important question is: What happens after the asset is tokenized? The tokenized RWA market is approaching $30B on-chain, yet only about $2.47B is currently active inside DeFi protocols. That gap tells us something important. Tokenization is advancing faster than composability. A tokenized Treasury can exist on-chain without becoming collateral. A tokenized fund can have investors without deep secondary liquidity. A tokenized security can be programmable without being integrated into lending, trading or structured products. That is the next RWA problem to solve. My radar: $ETH — Still one of the most important settlement environments for tokenized finance. $SOL — High throughput makes it a strong candidate for high-frequency RWA markets. $ONDO — Watching how tokenized Treasuries evolve from passive holdings into productive DeFi assets. $LINK — Oracles and interoperability become critical when traditional assets interact with smart contracts. $AAVE — Lending is where RWA composability becomes much more tangible. $UNI — Tokenized assets need liquid markets, not just issuance. $MKR $SKY — Stablecoin and collateral infrastructure could become important bridges between RWAs and DeFi. $PENDLE — Yield markets could turn tokenized financial products into more sophisticated on-chain strategies. $ARB $OP — Lower-cost Ethereum environments could capture more RWA activity as applications scale. $SUI $APT $AVAX — Alternative execution environments will compete for institutional asset issuance and liquidity. The numbers show why this matters. Bond and money-market funds represent more than $16.6B of on-chain RWAs, but only around $920M is active in DeFi. Private credit performs much better, with about 39% of its tokenized value represented in DeFi. That difference is revealing. The strongest RWA models may not simply be the ones that tokenize the largest assets. #BTCGoldCorr+0.50 #HammackBacksHike #ZECRanks10thByMarketCap