RWA crypto coins, live
Every coin on this page is tied, one way or another, to something that exists off the blockchain: US Treasury bills, gold bars, private loans, buildings, fund shares. The RWA crypto category covers the platforms and tokens that bring those assets on-chain, and the bubbles show how their coins are trading right now, sized and colored by the move.
It's one filtered slice of the full crypto bubbles view on the home page. The filter earns its place here, because most real world asset coins are mid-caps that disappear into dots next to Bitcoin and Ethereum on the market-wide chart.
The coins here aren't the assets
The biggest tokenized treasury fund in the world, BlackRock's BUIDL, has no bubble on this chart. It launched on Ethereum in March 2024, went past $1 billion within about a year, and is priced at a flat $1 per token, with a minimum investment of $5 million for qualified buyers. There's nothing for a bubble to show.
What you see instead are the platform tokens. ONDO is the governance token of Ondo Finance, which issues tokenized treasury products like OUSG and USDY. Holding ONDO gets you a say in how Ondo is run. It does not get you the treasury yield, and it doesn't give you a claim on the bills underneath. Those live in separate products, most of which come with investor checks and country restrictions.
That gap is the most useful thing to know before reading this chart. A green ONDO bubble means traders are betting on Ondo the company doing well, which is a perfectly reasonable bet, just a very different one from owning treasuries. The same goes for most coins in the category. Only a few, mainly the gold tokens, represent the asset itself.
Most coverage calls tokenization the next multi-trillion-dollar market. It might be. The tokens on this page are a much shakier way to bet on that than the headlines suggest, since the value can flow to banks and asset managers rather than to anyone holding a governance coin. Big if, either way.
What is RWA in crypto, without the pitch deck
A real world asset token is a blockchain record that stands for a claim on something held off-chain. A custodian holds the gold bar or a fund holds the T-bills, and the token is the receipt that moves around on-chain. That receipt settles instantly and trades around the clock, even when the underlying market is shut for the weekend, and it can sit in DeFi as collateral.
The receipt is only as good as whoever holds the real thing. If the custodian loses the gold or the issuer goes bankrupt, the smart contract can't do anything about it; that question goes to a court in whatever country the issuer sits in. Crypto people sometimes talk about RWAs as if the blockchain makes them trustless. It does the opposite. It brings traditional counterparty risk back into a system that was built to avoid it.
By far the largest tokenized real world asset is the dollar. USDT and USDC are backed mostly by cash and short-term US government debt, and together they dwarf every other RWA combined. Most trackers leave stablecoins out of the RWA total so the rest of the category is visible at all, and this page follows the same split: no stablecoin bubbles here.
The name itself is a little funny if you think about it for more than a second. Calling one category "real world assets" quietly concedes something about all the others, and nobody in the industry seems bothered. Right, treasuries.
Tokenized treasuries carried the whole category
Tokenized treasuries went from roughly $100 million at the start of 2023 to several billion dollars by 2025, and they're the main reason RWA stopped being a conference buzzword. The logic was simple. Once US interest rates rose in 2022, holding idle stablecoins that paid nothing looked silly next to a T-bill paying 4% or 5%, so DeFi protocols and crypto funds started parking cash in tokenized versions of those bills.
Franklin Templeton got there first, putting a US-registered money market fund on a public blockchain back in 2021. BlackRock's arrival in 2024 is what convinced everyone else the idea was serious. Ondo, Superstate and a handful of others now compete on the same product: short-term government debt with a token wrapper, redeemable on business days.
The yield is the same few percent a T-bill pays, minus fees, and it falls when rates fall. If you're weighing a treasury token against a proof-of-stake yield, a crypto APY calculator will show how much of the gap compounding closes, though the risk on each side is nothing alike. One is a government IOU. The other is paid in a token whose price can halve.
A short RWA coins list, and what each one gives you
These tend to be the bigger bubbles in the category. The last column is the one that matters: whether owning the coin gives you the underlying asset or just exposure to the business around it.
| Coin | What it is | Does holding it give you the asset? |
|---|---|---|
| ONDO | Governance token of Ondo Finance, issuer of tokenized treasury products | No |
| OM | Native token of Mantra, a chain built for tokenized assets | No |
| PLUME | Token of Plume, a network aimed at RWA apps | No |
| CFG | Centrifuge, infrastructure for tokenized private credit | No |
| SYRUP | Token of Maple Finance, an on-chain lender to institutions | No |
| POLYX | Polymesh, a chain designed for regulated securities | No |
| PAXG | Paxos Gold, one token per fine troy ounce of London-vaulted gold | Yes, redeemable under Paxos's terms |
| XAUT | Tether Gold, one token per troy ounce held in Switzerland | Yes, with large minimums for physical delivery |
Earlier I said the coins here aren't the assets. The gold rows are the exception, and they're the ones I'd look at first: when gold ran hard through 2025, PAXG and XAUT simply tracked it, which is exactly what a real world asset token is supposed to do. Plenty of people think gold tokens are the boring corner of RWA. I'm not one of them.
Membership comes from CoinGecko's real world assets tag, so a few coins show up here that you might not file under RWA yourself, and the lineup shifts as new projects get tagged.
When tokenized assets go wrong
Mantra is the cautionary tale. OM was one of the largest RWA tokens by market cap in early 2025, trading around $6, and on April 13, 2025 it fell about 90% in roughly an hour. The team blamed forced liquidations on exchanges; critics pointed at how concentrated the token supply was. Either way, the chain's pitch about tokenized real estate and bonds had nothing to do with why the price collapsed. On this chart it would have looked like one huge green bubble turning into a small red one inside a single refresh cycle.
The asset side can fail too, just more slowly. When FTX collapsed in November 2022, Orthogonal Trading defaulted on about $36 million it had borrowed through Maple Finance, and lenders in those pools took real losses. On-chain credit is still credit, and borrowers still default.
Then there's the question of what a token represents. In 2025 several exchanges started offering tokenized versions of US stocks to non-US customers, and when Robinhood's European tokens included exposure to OpenAI, OpenAI publicly said those tokens were not OpenAI equity. A token can track something without making you an owner of it, and the fine print decides which one you've bought.
Where to look instead of this page
For issuance data, rwa.xyz, which is the site I trust most for this category, tracks how much of each asset type is tokenized, who issued it and on which chain. That's the number that tells you whether RWA adoption is growing, and it has almost nothing to do with where ONDO trades this week. CoinGecko's own RWA category page is better for a complete list, including small tokens that barely register as bubbles.
What this chart is good for is the market's mood about the sector. When RWA coins light up together while Bitcoin is flat, money is rotating into the narrative, usually after a headline about a big bank or fund moving on-chain. Those rotations tend to be short. The issuance numbers on rwa.xyz move slowly and mostly in one direction, which is a better signal of where the category is heading than any single week of price action.
Before you chase a green RWA bubble
Say ONDO and PLUME are both glowing on the 7d view after a report that another asset manager is launching a tokenized fund. Click each bubble and check whether volume rose with the price, since headline pumps on thin volume fade quickly. Then ask what the news actually changes for the token: a new fund on Ondo's rails might grow Ondo's business, but it doesn't send the fund's yield to ONDO holders. Finally, put both coins next to Bitcoin in a cryptocurrency investment comparison and look at correlation and volatility over 1Y. If they move almost in lockstep with BTC, the RWA story is decoration on a normal crypto trade.
RWA questions that come up a lot
Is ONDO a good investment?
It depends on what you think you're buying, and none of this is investment advice. ONDO is a bet on Ondo Finance growing and on token holders eventually benefiting from that, not a way to earn treasury yield. It has been volatile like any mid-cap coin, well below its late-2024 highs for long stretches. If you want the yield itself, look at the products Ondo issues and check whether you're even eligible, since several exclude US or retail investors. If you do buy the token, a crypto profit loss calculator with fees included gives you a more honest picture of the trade than the price chart does.
Are stablecoins real world assets?
Technically yes. USDT and USDC are tokens backed by dollars and short-term government debt, which is the textbook definition. They're usually counted separately because they're so large that they would swallow the rest of the category, and because people use them as money rather than as an investment. The US GENIUS Act, signed in July 2025, also gave payment stablecoins their own rulebook, which pushed them further into a category of their own.
Can I buy BlackRock's BUIDL fund?
Almost certainly not directly. BUIDL is limited to qualified purchasers with a $5 million minimum, and every holder goes through Securitize's investor checks. Some DeFi products hold BUIDL and pass exposure on to their own users, which adds another layer of counterparty risk on top of the fund itself. rwa.xyz breaks BUIDL down by chain if you want to trace where that exposure sits.
How are RWA tokens different from security tokens?
Mostly in branding. Many RWA tokens, including tokenized funds and stocks, are securities under the law of the country they're issued in, which is why they come with investor checks and transfer restrictions. The governance coins on this chart generally aren't sold as claims on assets, and that's exactly why they trade freely. Rule of thumb: the easier a token is to buy, the less likely it gives you a legal claim on anything.
Is tokenized real estate worth it?
For most people, not yet. Property tokens let you buy a slice of a rental house or building for a small amount, and some pay out rent. The catch is liquidity: there are rarely enough buyers to sell your slice quickly at a fair price, and the legal structure behind the token (usually a company that owns the property) matters far more than the blockchain it sits on. It's an interesting experiment. As a liquid investment it has a long way to go.
Disclaimer
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