# Overview of RWA

RWA (Real-World Assets) transforms real-world assets such as real estate, stocks, gold, art, bonds, etc., into digital tokens or NFTs, facilitating their trade on the blockchain. Bridging the gap between traditional and digital economies, RWA Finance’s impact lies in establishing a connection between traditional finance and crypto finance, introducing offline financial assets onto the blockchain, facilitating the redemption of offline assets, and expanding the pathways between real-world assets and Web3.

Its unique meta-asset cross-chain bridge and economic model showcase the potential for activating innovation in Web3 protocols.

* Global stock market value: $103 trillion (as of June 2023);
* Global real estate total value: Approximately $360 trillion;
* Global gold market total value: $8.2 trillion;
* Global art market total: $678 billion (as of the end of 2022);
* Global ETF market size: $11.61 trillion (as of the end of 2023).

As the RWA market continues to gain popularity in 2023, major institutions are positioning themselves, preparing for the explosion of this blue ocean market. Moves by giants such as Goldman Sachs, Siemens, and Bank of China International in the RWA field, investing and issuing digital bonds, demonstrate confidence in this sector.

Although the RWA market is still in its early development stage, its substantial growth rate, increasing adoption, and the upward trend in Total Value Locked (TVL) have attracted widespread attention. According to the tracking of the DeFi Llama protocol, RWA has become the 9th largest category in the DeFi space, with a total locked value of approximately $4 billion. According to a report by Boston Consulting Group, the market size of tokenized assets is expected to reach $16 trillion by 2030, directly leading to an eightfold increase in crypto market value, as the current global crypto market value is only around $2 trillion.
