.@Securitize listed on NYSE under $SECZ on July 2, simultaneously tokenizing its own stock onchain. The closing bell ceremony is today.
RedStone has been the oracle infrastructure underneath its ecosystem since March 2025. Here's what that looks like.
"We believed you need absolutely solid fundamentals before you scale distribution. We have those fundamentals now."
@MarcinRedStone sat down with @defillama_res at TokenizeThis to talk RWA infrastructure and what's coming for the next phase of institutional DeFi. Full interview:
Six years of following the market and building relationships turned @redstone_defi into a full-suite orchestration layer for tokenized and crypto assets
@MarcinRedStone tells us how the company got there during its flagship @TokenizeThisNYC conference:
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When a position is liquidated in DeFi, a fee gets paid out to whoever closes that position.
For years, that fee has gone to whichever bot won the race to act on the price update first. This is Oracle Extracted Value or OEV.
"No one is asking if tokenisation will happen anymore. The conversation has shifted to the infrastructure that will support it."
Following our joint RWA report, @castle_labs sat down with @wagmi_girl on where adoption stands and what still needs to be built.
Last week, we published a flagship report, Real-World Assets: Bringing TradFi Onchain, in partnership with @redstone_defi for @TokenizeThis
This week, we sat down with Bella from Redstone to discuss their focus on tokenisation and what they hoped to achieve by hosting 👇
Real-world assets (RWAs) have become the fastest-growing category in crypto since the beginning of 2025, with the tokenised RWA market now at $28.2 billion, a 500% expansion since January 2025. This growth is correlated with rising institutional interest from the likes of @BlackRock, @FTDA_US, and Apollo, which have themselves launched tokenised products.
However, even with strong growth metrics, RWAs struggle with limited representation in DeFi, with a current market cap of $3 billion (~10% of the total RWA market cap). This is due to factors such as regulatory & KYC concerns, as certain assets need to be restricted by region or to qualified investors, and a lack of instant redemption, which DeFi protocols require to perform liquidations instantly.
Bella told us that: "Hosting our own event gives us the flexibility to curate the right room more effectively while making sure the agenda is hyperfocused on RWA tokenisation and institutional use cases.”
Institutions are moving beyond exploration and proof of concepts and into real pilots and in-product applications. This can be seen not only onchain but also in the attendees at TokenizeThis, including C-suite speakers from @Securitize, @Fidelity, @Citi, @Bloomberg, @The_DTCC, @InvescoUS, and many other traditional players:
“No one is asking if tokenisation will happen anymore; the conversation has now shifted to focusing on the infrastructure that will support it, distribution, and increased utility of these onchain assets.”
Bella’s point is that tokenisation is no longer the end product. It is a new base layer that can be built upon, but one that requires many more supporting parts than onchain-native assets. Before RWAs can be fully integrated into vaults, lending markets, or derivative products, the plumbing needs to be correctly configured beneath them: pricing via oracles, asset custody, jurisdictional compliance, and regulatory reporting.
This week’s headlines follow similar cords:
- @AlliumLabs, the blockchain data firm, raised $40m, showing firsthand how institutional tokenisation needs the data, reporting, and reconciliation side of the equation to move past simple token issuance.
- @hiFramework, on the other hand, has been looking further into the future, raising a new $400m fund aimed at using tokenisation to solve financing problems outside of crypto.
Tokenisation is a huge opportunity for the world economy, but it needs to be usable inside existing institutional workflows and business operations.
One of the most important things to watch this year is which companies are actually making this happen behind the scenes.
Read our full report on the entire sector below: