Every RWA pitch promises to democratize finance. I keep asking: for whom? The headline is intoxicating money-market funds, treasuries, private credit, bonds that used to sit behind high minimums, accreditation and geography, suddenly buyable by anyone with a wallet. Fractional, 24/7, borderless.

But a regulated asset doesn't shed its rules by going on-chain. Who may hold a security is set by law accreditation, jurisdiction, suitability, KYC. Tokenizing a private-credit fund doesn't make it legal for a random retail user abroad to buy it. The eligibility gate is still there; the token just moves faster behind it. So the honest question is whether tokenization widens the door or simply re-paves the road for people already allowed through. A lot of "RWA for everyone" is really "RWA, cheaper and faster, for the same qualified investors."

Where it genuinely broadens access is quieter but real: fractionalization drops a €100k minimum into small slices, and a compliant venue can reach eligible investors long shut out by geography or account minimums not everyone, but more of those who technically qualify yet were priced or papered out.

This is the honest version a chain like Dusk actually offers: eligibility enforced in the asset, access through a regulated venue like Dusk Trade. It won't legally can't throw the doors open to all. What it can do is make qualified access programmatic and low-friction instead of relationship-gated.

So judge it by the real metric: does it lower minimums and reach the qualified-but-excluded? That's a smaller revolution than "finance for all" but a true one, if we stop pretending the gate isn't there.

Worth watching, not yet worth certainty.

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What is the real promise of RWA tokenization?