For decades, institutional finance operated behind closed doors. The new Corda protocol opens the vault, bringing real-world financial strategies directly onto @Solana. Our vision is an open financial system where everyone can build resilient, diversified portfolios, putting the tools once reserved for Wall Street into the hands of DeFi users. Be part of what comes next: https://t.co/M91ZYakSYN
"If all you have done is recreate what already exists, what will you have achieved? Something new that does the same things as the current systems will, without exception, be worse."
The oldest and most significant permissioned blockchain firm, owned by the who's who of banking, has gone all in on @solana
"Permissionless innovation drives growth, including for the incumbents… if only they can get out of their own way."
After regulatory frameworks were passed in late 2025, the market accelerated.
Treasuries hot $1b in 918 days. Speciality finance in 654.
Asset-backed credit hit $1B in just 185 days.
Looking ahead, forecasts for tokenized assets vary a lot but they all point in the same direction: growth.
McKinsey: $2–4T by 2030.
Ark Invest: $11T by 2030.
BCG/Ripple: $9.4T by 2030, $18.9T by 2033.
Standard Chartered: $30T + by 2034.
The gap between $2 trillion and $30 trillion is more about definitions than adoption.
Different institutions are measuring different things. McKinsey focuses mostly on bonds, loans, funds, and equities. Standard Chartered adds commodities and trade finance. BCG and Ripple include deposits and stablecoins alongside more traditional asset categories.
Despite these differences, the broader trend is consistent: Asset tokenization is expected to expand.
We’re heads down at @inside_r3 getting the Corda RWA Protocol ready for launch. I’ve been doing a few podcasts to explain where we’re going, and @arifkazi_ has a nice take below. In my own words:
The needs - and demands - of DeFi allocators are fundamentally different to those of traditional investors: demand for higher yield, bigger risk appetites. The median DeFi allocator does not look like the median TradFi investor.
But it goes further.
Think about the onchain experience you get with non-RWA tokens in DeFi. It’s easy to forget just how nice it is:
* Easy entry and exit of positions
* Commonality of experience - the ERC-20, SPL, etc., standards have no TradFi equivalent
* Services operated by different parties are compatible with each other, everything plugs together nicely (aka ‘composability’)
* Everything’s in one place (your wallet) - no endless logging in and out of different vendors’ clunky websites
* And it’s surprisingly meritocratic: the asset either performs or it doesn’t. A fancy brand name on the token counts for nothing if it’s a dog.
Yes… it’s also still highly imperfect… contract hacks, oracle failures, bad actors under every rock... But anybody who has used it in anger knows how much better the user experience - the overall product - can actually be.
This is why I say tokenisation has to be about more than simply taking an off-the-shelf TradFi asset and distributing it as a token. The target market expects a far superior product experience.
But they do of course also really want higher quality yield. Yield that is backed by actual real-world cash-flows, and which works natively with DeFi.
That’s what my team is building - Wall Street yield, packaged so it works smoothly with DeFi… bending the product to meet the customers’ needs, not the other way round.
Where is institutional capital going on-chain and what's it being paid for?
Next week on R3's Future Forum...
The On-Chain Yield Stack: How Products Are Maturing for Institutional Capital
Joined by:
- @Figment_io - Eva Lawrence, Head of Revenue
- @SteakhouseFi - Adrian Cachinero, Co-Founder
Staking, restaking, vaults, on-chain credit... What they mean in practice and what it actually takes for institutions to participate.
Register now: https://t.co/vGCvS8fa2C
Wake up today, asking yourself how is @solana going to win the RWA race?
Why is curated distribution more powerful than choice?
Or how TradFi has to come to on-chain investors?
@gendal sat down with @msjemmagreen for Unblocked @Powerledger_io to dicuss all!
Link Below: