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RWA (Real-World Asset)
Off-chain assets — US Treasury bonds, private credit, real estate, commodities — represented as tokens on a blockchain. Also searched as real world assets or RWA tokenisation (US: tokenization). RWA issuance bridges traditional finance and DeFi by bringing off-chain yield on-chain. Examples include BlackRock BUIDL, Ondo Finance, and Centrifuge.
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