Unpopular Opinion: most “RWA tokenization” still looks like a digital wrapper around old finance💯
The asset may appear onchain but the real workflow often stays offchain: legacy records, delayed settlement, custodians & layers of intermediaries still sitting underneath.
That isn’t necessarily useless. It can improve access & distribution. But it’s not the same as rebuilding the system.
What caught my attention while researching $DUSK is its focus on a harder idea: native issuance.
Instead of creating a token that represents an asset elsewhere, the asset can be issued directly onchain with rules around compliance, trading, disclosure & settlement built into the lifecycle from the start.
That difference matters.
A tokenized asset can still depend on the old rails behind it. Native issuance asks whether those rails can be redesigned altogether.
Through its work with NPEX, DUSK is positioning this as more than a theory: regulated companies raising capital in a digital environment designed around the full asset lifecycle, not just the token.
Maybe the real RWA race is not about who tokenizes the most assets.
Maybe it’s about who rebuilds the most broken processes.
What do you think matters more for RWAs: putting assets onchain or making the entire financial workflow onchain?
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