Trump government’s tariff policies shook the market. The announcement of punitive tariffs up to 25% on EU countries was immediately met with the European side launching countermeasures, nearly causing a breakdown in the global trade landscape.

This is not just a verbal threat—supply chains are under pressure, inflation expectations are rising, and the correlation risks of financial assets are soaring. Whenever geopolitical conflicts intensify, traditional investment portfolios face the awkward situation of declining together. Assets relying on cross-border settlements and susceptible to policy impacts are the first to be affected.

Amid this chaos, on-chain financial infrastructure has demonstrated a completely different resilience. Blockchain protocols are inherently unaffected by regional tariff policies, allowing capital to flow freely. For example, a leading DeFi platform by early 2026 had locked assets exceeding $43 billion—reflecting the urgent demand from institutional and individual investors for "non-correlation hedging tools."

How does it work specifically? The RWA market on such platforms allows users to directly hold tokenized US Treasury yield rights, with an annualized return of about 3.65%, effectively moving the most stable assets of traditional finance onto the chain. Meanwhile, its lending network’s stablecoin interest rates are as low as 1.85%, far surpassing bank fixed deposits. In other words—this can anchor the stability of the dollar while achieving capital efficiency beyond traditional finance.

When the trade bridges of the real world are "tripped" by tariffs, blockchain is building a value flow channel unaffected by geopolitical interference. Free capital movement and continuous compound returns—this is the correct posture to respond to global uncertainties.