In 2025, RWAs exceeded $30 billion in tokenized value, up 260% YoY

Real World Assets are becoming a behemoth of an industry.

In 2025, RWAs exceeded $30 billion in tokenized value, up 260% YoY. This surge stems from institutional adoption, regulatory clarity under frameworks like the EU’s MiCA, and the maturation of DeFi infrastructure. While these numbers represent largely the growth of stablecoins, another trillion-dollar trend is set to flourish. A crucial subset: niche of the RWA industry.

Real World Commodities (RWCs), gold, oil, cocoa, wheat, tangible assets that power global trade and now, decentralized economies.

Real World Commodities Tokenization begins at the source, producers, miners, and cooperatives. The physical and digital economy is being built by producers, miners, and cooperatives. Industry for RWAs is broad, with stablecoins leading the charge. At its core RWA Industry's mission is to make real assets traceable, tradable, and trusted, from cocoa in Nigeria to gold in Latin America.

Linking between the physical and digital economy, but what does the End-to-end look like for these assets? Each stage of the supply chain is captured on-chain:

1. Extraction – Tokens represent verified output, unlocking early financing.

2. Processing – Smart contracts automate payments on milestones.

3. Storage & Transport – IoT + blockchain prevent loss and fraud.

4. Trading – Instant liquidity through DEX integration.

5. Delivery – Physical redemption ensures trust.

   
   

Real Economies will emerge stronger from real-world commodities.

Tokenizing commodities enhances the supply chain, allowing further depth into crucial blind spots, creating trust and transparency, along with minimal price impact.

Traceability, which is a key part of tokenized assets, gives emerging markets the financial identity for their livestock, agriculture, and minerals. Giving Small producers access to global markets, finance, and real data they can use for harvesting their products; investors gain exposure and confidence in a real yield, real data, while everyone involved stays compliant with global trade agreements.

The challenge many face lies in accessing loans, securing insurance, meeting global compliance standards, and expanding market reach.

Traceability: Commodities like cocoa, honey, or gold are verifiable from origin to consumer.

Financing: Producers can tokenize verified outputs to access easier, more confident capital via DeFi, RealFi, and even TradfFi, replacing high-risk 10% + bank loans with 2–5% lower interest rates.

The RWA industry is leapfrogging previously underrepresented markets far beyond its competition.

These components of the RWA industry are leapfrogging previously underrepresented markets far beyond their competition. This traceability data goes beyond the trade, loans, and even extends to the life cycle of the products. Producers now have access to long-term data, allowing them to make better decisions with their crop data, mining, payment rails, and cooperative relationships.