Holding tokenized bonds, Treasury bills, or real estate tokens? Odds are they're just sitting idle in your wallet, collecting modest yield and not much else.
Here's the friction: can't borrow against them easily. Need liquidity in a different blockchain? You're forced to bridge, burn through fees, and lose time waiting for transactions to settle.
The core issue? RWA remains largely siloed, lacking deep integration with DeFi primitives. Until we see better composability and cross-chain liquidity solutions, these real-world assets stay trapped in a box—generating returns but far from reaching their full potential.
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BrokenDAO
· 5h ago
Basically, RWA is now just a "piggy bank" — it can only earn some interest while lying around and can't do anything else. Bridge fees are burning, liquidity issues are everywhere, and the mechanisms are fragmented to an unbearable degree — isn't this the old problem that DeFi Lego has never solved?
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PretendingSerious
· 5h ago
RWA is now just a semi-finished product, assets are truly locked, and cross-chain transactions result in heavy losses.
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CommunityJanitor
· 5h ago
ngl RWA is now just a burden; holding it is not as good as directly mining in DeFi.
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rugpull_survivor
· 5h ago
RWA is just a retirement product, really. My bonds have been lying there for half a year, just like sleeping.
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ForkYouPayMe
· 5h ago
RWA this thing is indeed useless, just lying around earning some tiny returns, and I can't even move it. Cross-chain fees are ridiculously expensive.
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RunWhenCut
· 5h ago
To be honest, RWA right now is just a half-baked project, with bridge fees so high they make you bleed, and liquidity is extremely poor.
Your RWA holdings aren't working hard enough
Holding tokenized bonds, Treasury bills, or real estate tokens? Odds are they're just sitting idle in your wallet, collecting modest yield and not much else.
Here's the friction: can't borrow against them easily. Need liquidity in a different blockchain? You're forced to bridge, burn through fees, and lose time waiting for transactions to settle.
The core issue? RWA remains largely siloed, lacking deep integration with DeFi primitives. Until we see better composability and cross-chain liquidity solutions, these real-world assets stay trapped in a box—generating returns but far from reaching their full potential.