Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization has reached a global valuation of nearly 40 billion dollars, representing a growth of over 2,200 % in two years, driven primarily by US Treasury tokens (14.7 billion dollars). Mastercard acquired startup BVNK for 1.8 billion dollars last August, while Stripe purchased OpenRouter for 8 billion dollars, the latter processing over 19,000 billion tokens daily across more than 500 AI models. The ECB launched the Pontes infrastructure dedicated to tokenized assets in July, and British banks (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Monzo, NatWest) conducted their first client transactions in tokenized sterling. According to analyst Romain Liquard from Crédit Agricole, tokenization has now entered a global industrialization phase, with blockchain protocols enabling the representation of all types of financial assets as tokens.
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