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Tanaka

Founder of Kollab3, DeFi Researcher

21 May, 12:07Latest

RWA products built to work inside DeFi, such as Ondo's USDY, Maple's Syrup and Centrifuge, are the lanes that can grow while most tokenized Treasuries stay locked behind compliance rails. Only about 10% of RWA liquidity is active in DeFi, including $184M of $7B in gold and $78M of $2.2B in equities. USDY crossed $1B TVL across nine chains because it was built composable first. The Clarity Act and the SEC's innovation exemption could ease restrictions this year and lift DeFi adoption. x.com

SYRUP

ONDO CFG

19 May, 07:28

Real-world assets may be crypto's fastest-growing and most stable sector, and the market still underestimates how big they can become once traditional finance moves fully onchain. The RWA market grew from about $6B in January 2025 to $33.71B in May 2026, up 462% in roughly 16 months. The biggest opportunities are tokenized Treasuries via Ondo, private credit and onchain lending via Centrifuge, and tokenized gold via PAX Gold and Tether Gold. This looks much bigger than a short-term cycle trade. x.com

PAXG

ONDO CFG XAUT

Emperor Osmo

DeFi Research, Blockchain Metrics, Ex-Osmosis/Artemis

19 Oct

AAVE KMNO MORPHO

RWAs being used as collateral make lending protocols where the growth will be. RWA liquidity reached $4.235B, up $439M (+11.6%) in 30 days. Morpho Blue leads at $734M, 1.7x Aave V3's $428M; Kamino Lend holds $413M, and the top five protocols account for 54% of RWA liquidity. x.com

Alan Rogers

Full-Time Crypto Trader

25 Sep

ONDO

Ondo Finance is the leading real-world-asset protocol tokenizing US Treasuries onchain, and the RWA narrative is just getting started. Institutions such as BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are already in the space, and Ondo is already building it, with the ONDO token sitting at $0.55. x.com

Tulip King

Head of Strategy at CounterpartyTV, Crypto Investor

12 Oct

SPK

SYRUP

COMP

AAVE KMNO MORPHO

Lending tokens fall short of the sector's strong economics because team conduct and uneven holder returns undermine them. Lending capital is sticky and protocols have pricing power, but Aave rugged its DAO and Compound rugged. Morpho signaled no interest in buybacks; Kamino is silent. Maple's buybacks are small, about a tenth of revenue, and inconsistent. Spark buys back about half its revenue, but revenue is very inconsistent. The sector is great; these projects are not. x.com

nairolf

Crypto Educator & Writer for Crypto Made Easy

1 Oct

SYRUP

Maple Finance is crushing institutional real-world-asset lending with real demand, real borrowers and real revenue, yet few people talk about it. It just had its biggest revenue month ever. Per @IAGMI_2025, the SYRUP token is criminally underrated and mispriced at $5B AUM and $25M revenue, with strong buybacks and almost full unlock, so no dilution; it is a comfortable hold. x.com x.com

Karamata_

Crypto Researcher, Ambassador for TON & Arbitrum

22 May

CFG

Centrifuge's first-mover lead in on-chain private credit, as DeFi and TradFi converge, could make it one of the biggest winners of the 2026-2027 real-world-asset cycle. Very few players can compete: TVL has passed $1.5-1.8B across more than 1,768 tokenized assets, it ranks top three by distributed value at about $476M, and it has originated over $1.1B of active loans at 8-12% yields. Per Keyrock, tokenized private credit could reach $15-17B as TradFi participation accelerates. x.com x.com

Karamata_

Crypto Researcher, Ambassador for TON & Arbitrum

6 Apr

ONDO

ONDO's token captures too little of Ondo Finance's value, and without a large buyback it risks being outpaced by RWA tokens that adopt fee switches sooner. It is mostly a governance token, with no large-scale staking and no gas role on Ondo Chain, while about 51% of supply vests until 2029, a constant sell pressure. @ar_web3's worry about roughly 1B tokens unlocking yearly would be a disaster without big buybacks. Decisive DAO action in 6–12 months could let ONDO reflect the protocol's strength. … Show more

Andy

Co-Founder of The Rollup & The Rollup Ventures

22 Oct

AAVE

ENA

UNI

PENDLE

LINK MORPHO

Tokenization and demand for real economics make DeFi lending, spot and yield tokens extremely appealing on risk-reward. This unrivaled trend will grow DeFi value 50x or more over multiple years, and fast. The altcoin bear market is forcing better token structures: Ethena, Uniswap and Aave are improving unit economics, Chainlink to some extent. Battle-tested Pendle and Morpho, with efficient businesses and institutional ties, will re-rate hard. A DeFi Summer return is nearly certain. x.com

nairolf

Crypto Educator & Writer for Crypto Made Easy

6 Oct

ETH

Ethereum's case rests on keeping and widening its lead in real-world assets, the market it has spent the last couple of years positioning itself to own. It needs to keep dominating RWA DeFi TVL, and if the RWA thesis plays out, Ethereum is where that value should settle. x.com

DΞFI PΞNIΞL

DeFi Researcher, Marketing & Advisory at Ronin Network

22 Jun

ARB

ENA

TAO

Crypto's next cycle will be won by protocols with real users, revenue and utility that merge trading, banking, AI and cloud into one ecosystem. Hyperliquid has $1.06B of annualized fees, with HIP-3 adding stock perps and commodities; Aave holds $13.1B TVL; Chainlink secures $30.6B; Ondo brings treasuries on-chain. Ethena, Pendle, Maple, Bittensor, Virtuals, io.net, EigenLayer, Wormhole and Arbitrum round out the rails, though Ethena must survive weak funding and EigenLayer needs lasting revenue. … Show more

Kyle Reidhead

CEO & Analyst of Milk Road/Milk Road AI

25 Oct

AAVE

UNI SKY

Bank coverage could help traditional finance underwrite DeFi and eventually allocate capital to it. Citi published a 24-page report on Aave, while Standard Chartered began covering Uniswap, Aave and Sky, even though banks do not make money covering DeFi as they do stocks. Analysts are learning DeFi in their own language as its businesses and tokens meet traditional-finance standards, an extremely bullish development for the space. x.com

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