tokenization has come to stay.
why?
because instead of creating another reason for us to use a blockchain, tokenization brought things that already has value on-chain.
the funds, bonds, credit, stocks, real-world assets.
➥ and the whole point is to make owning it, cashing out of it, getting access, moving it, and getting your money back out all work differently.
~ that gives tokenization a connection to an existing market with actual economic value behind it.
now, how much of these financial system do you think will eventually pass through these rails?
2026 has been brutal to all…
chains and exchanges closed or pivoted, and RootData counted hundreds of projects shut down or inactive.
this is what happened..
➥ chains needed rewards to keep people around, and when those reward dried up due to the BEAR season, the crowd also left them.
volumes fell, altcoin liquidity dried up, and chains lost the incentives that made their numbers look like growth.
the top of the cherry is MONEY left here too, with crypto competing against AI for the same funds made it all crazy.
➥ now, the main thing ending is the 2021–2025 habit of launching a chain, points program or exchange and treating wallets, transactions and logos as proof of a real project.
check the survivors of 2026..
➥ they’re the ones that found a reason for people to pay without being rewarded for it:
could be trading, having a consumer product, regulated issuance, or redeemable assets.
tbh whoever survives 2026 will only get stronger.
what happens when you put a real restaurant brand ON-CHAIN?
i’m about to find out from the inside, i got into the @tastyco_io inner circle on my first application.
that’s when i understood that you just have to stick to a lane till opportunities find you there.
and that has been TOKENIZATION for me.
@tastyco_io is a global RWA platform turning real food businesses with real operating revenue into tradable on-chain markets.
personally, this is a close look at a live attempt to answer what I’ve been researching:
what changes when something that already exists in the real world becomes an on-chain market?
i’m bringing my research, content, narrative and on-chain finance lens into the Inner Circle.
also learn from the people building around TastyCo and seeing where this takes me next.
if you’re in the inner circle or building in RWA, let’s connect.
and while speaking to my mentor completely confused, she asked me:
what did you learn from ~ vanshika and the whole TOKEN2049 marketing.
at first I didn’t really get the question then she broke it down to me…
marketing comes in different form.
there’re thousands of marketers in the web3 space.
but the most creative ones will always find a way to pull attention and numbers.
fun fact is, you don’t even need to be a marketer to market yourself.
the thought of showing up everyday to build your personal brand is an act of marketing yourself.
you have to remove shyness.
be audacious, dogged and think outside the box.
because what level of creativity would make you think “let me use my body as a canvas to market this event”.
this is the most creative thing I’ve seen on CT.. since I got here.
and I bet there are more creatives here, some are still figuring out what their own crazyy idea would be.
but what’s the most creative thing you’ve done in web3?
if you’re in crypto, pivot to tokenization ke? 🙄
thought crypto is tokenization…
but all the same, here’s a thread on why tokenization is making the highlights and going mainstream.🧵
robinhood just let an agent check @tokenterminal without you ever leaving the app that already has your money.
that catalog covers 10,000+ tokenized assets.
so mid-trade, the agent can pull up fees, usage, RWA metrics real onchain data while the person who owns the money may never open a block explorer in their life.
this whole data was never the hard part.
i knew getting it in front of an agent was always going to happen eventually.
but the real question is when the agent understands the asset better than the human holding the account who’s really making the trade?
people say, surround yourself with an environment that makes you grow.
as someone who only exits online.. I’ll hold your hands while I say, your environment isn’t just your physical surroundings.
it’s your timeline, your DMs, group chats. literally people you talk to every day.
look at who you consistently consume and interact with.
are they pushing themselves, building, learning and creating leverage?
or are they normalizing complacency?
you don’t need to physically move to change your environment.
sometimes, you just need to change who and what has access to your mind every day.
so what do you think matters more: your physical environment or the people you give access to your mind?
Why do I need 5 different apps to do what should be one transaction?
I’ve been looking at what a real crypto super app should really look like.
And it should be something that brings the wallet, trading, security, analytics and earning layers into one experience.
And only one project is doing exactly that, which is @TIWIProtocol .
Walk with me: 🧵
While researching some of the Africans who have stayed in Web3 long enough to shape it, I kept running into one name.
@Rumerule
I’ve always known him as the CryptoPreacher.
But I hadn’t really looked at the journey behind it.
And it made me wonder what it actually take to stay in this industry long enough to become part of its history?
So I went back and this is what I found.👇
measuring RWA by how much value has been tokenized is one of the biggest mistake currently..
numbers or stats gets the headlines, but it’s just the first step.
the main thing happens after tokenization. when those assets can be used, moved, split, combined and built on top of.
➥ plugged into lending markets.
➥ traded with other assets.
that’s what makes an asset have a function and gives us the perfect question:
➥ how much of finance can we rebuild once the real world is brought on-chain.