RWA’s Cross $10 Billion Mark in Total Value Locked: DeFiLlama

Real-world property (RWAs) at the moment are a $10 billion class, in accordance with knowledge curated by DeFiLlama, with Maker, BlackRock’s BUIDL and Ethena’s USDtb every accounting for greater than $1 billion in complete worth locked (TVL).

Of the three, USDtb — a stablecoin designed to distinction with Ethena’s USDe — has had the quickest progress, including over 1,000% in TVL in the final month.

USDtb is backed by tokenized BlackRock money-market fund shares whereas USDe makes use of crypto-assets and perpetual futures methods for crypto-driven yields.

CoinDesk beforehand reported that Treasury-backed tokens reached a report $4.2 billion market cap in the primary quarter, pushed by progress in Ondo Finance’s OUSG and USDY tokens, BlackRock and Securitize’s BUIDL, Franklin Templeton’s BENJI and Superstate’s USTB.

Treasury-backed tokens dominate, in accordance with knowledge aggregator RWA.xyz. The subsequent highest class, tokenized commodities, comes in at $1.26 billion, with Paxos Gold main with TVL of simply over $500 million.

Analysts say this displays investor choice for safer property amid bearish crypto sentiment, with T-bills outperforming what’s provided for yield with main DeFi protocols like Compound.

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