Looking back at the ten years of cryptocurrency development, the entire ecosystem has essentially been doing one core thing—creating assets out of thin air. Bitcoin gave us digital gold, Ethereum introduced programmable monetary systems, and DeFi pioneered decentralized lending and trading models. Not a small achievement, but honestly, these are just the tip of the iceberg for the global financial system.
The real giant has always been lying in the ledgers of traditional finance—the hundreds of trillions of dollars in real-world assets, commonly known as RWA. Stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, carbon credits—these are enormous in scale beyond imagination. When the CEO of Blackstone proclaims "asset tokenization is the new era," he’s not talking about issuing a few thousand Meme coins, but about moving the entire ecosystem of hundreds of trillions of traditional assets onto the blockchain. This will be the largest asset migration in human financial history.
But the road ahead for this migration is blocked.
Current public chain architectures simply cannot handle this scale. The problem is not just TPS speed, but a fundamental conflict in underlying logic. Imagine if Nasdaq decided to tokenize all Apple shares and trade them on a certain public chain. What would that mean? Every shareholder’s wallet address, holdings, transaction times—all would be public to everyone on the network. Retail investors might not care, but what about hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds—these institutional giants? They would absolutely refuse to accept it.
Think about it—holding information is the trump card in trading. Once exposed, high-frequency trading algorithms and bots in the market would quickly eat them alive. This is the real reason why institutional capital has been hesitant to enter DeFi on a large scale—they need privacy, privacy, and more privacy. And the current system simply cannot provide that.
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WhaleWatcher
· 3h ago
Privacy is easily compromised once touched. When institutions get involved, it actually becomes more troublesome.
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ForkMaster
· 3h ago
Privacy is indeed a weak point; institutions have always operated this way. But to be honest, for RWA to take off, the first thing that needs to be addressed is compliance issues; privacy is just a surface-level concern. I bet that those involved in private chains are the ones who will ultimately succeed in handling this scale.
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MEVHunter
· 3h ago
nah this privacy angle hits different... institutions aren't touching defi until the mempool gets truly dark. RWA narrative's just copium if we can't solve for frontrunning. sandwich bots would feast on those hedge fund positions in milliseconds, fr fr.
Looking back at the ten years of cryptocurrency development, the entire ecosystem has essentially been doing one core thing—creating assets out of thin air. Bitcoin gave us digital gold, Ethereum introduced programmable monetary systems, and DeFi pioneered decentralized lending and trading models. Not a small achievement, but honestly, these are just the tip of the iceberg for the global financial system.
The real giant has always been lying in the ledgers of traditional finance—the hundreds of trillions of dollars in real-world assets, commonly known as RWA. Stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, carbon credits—these are enormous in scale beyond imagination. When the CEO of Blackstone proclaims "asset tokenization is the new era," he’s not talking about issuing a few thousand Meme coins, but about moving the entire ecosystem of hundreds of trillions of traditional assets onto the blockchain. This will be the largest asset migration in human financial history.
But the road ahead for this migration is blocked.
Current public chain architectures simply cannot handle this scale. The problem is not just TPS speed, but a fundamental conflict in underlying logic. Imagine if Nasdaq decided to tokenize all Apple shares and trade them on a certain public chain. What would that mean? Every shareholder’s wallet address, holdings, transaction times—all would be public to everyone on the network. Retail investors might not care, but what about hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds—these institutional giants? They would absolutely refuse to accept it.
Think about it—holding information is the trump card in trading. Once exposed, high-frequency trading algorithms and bots in the market would quickly eat them alive. This is the real reason why institutional capital has been hesitant to enter DeFi on a large scale—they need privacy, privacy, and more privacy. And the current system simply cannot provide that.