CoinMarketCap’s latest report highlights the increased interest in the RWA sector. Crypto ventures that assist in tokenizing real-world assets have gained significant attention in the last quarter. This is one of the main reasons why the price of LINK coin is aiming for new highs. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on the RWA topic and its benefits. Additionally, Chainlink‘s role in this area will also impact its long-term future.
With its on-chain tracking power, transparency, immutability, and low costs, blockchain has become indispensable for the traditional finance world. That’s why the world’s largest banks and financial market companies are researching the tokenization of assets.
Have you heard of Swift? Swift, the standard messaging network that connects more than 11,000 banks, recently conducted significant tests with more than 10 leading institutions, including Chainlink and Euroclear, Clearstream, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, and Citi. Citi, BNP, Swift are names we are familiar with, and they are the world’s largest financial companies. However, we should not forget Chainlink beside them.
For years, I have been talking about how cryptocurrencies have become a major organization that forms the foundation of the new digital age and how they achieve this through global mass funding (via tokens). Cryptocurrency companies that have now reached the level they should be with mass funding can collaborate with giants like Chainlink today.
DTCC, the world’s largest securities settlement system with transactions of over 2 quadrillion dollars annually, is working to integrate capital markets into the blockchain. Who are they working with? Of course, Chainlink. The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ), with total assets exceeding 1 trillion dollars, also used Chainlink CCIP.
When we ask “what does CCIP do?” and why it is important, we are actually referring to what we have been trying to explain in the past. Chainlink’s future is becoming even brighter due to the right steps taken and the increased interest in the RWA sector, as expected.
RWA and Chainlink (LINK)
We have discussed the importance of tokenized assets and what Chainlink has done. The transition of trillion-dollar economies to the new digital financial age will only be possible in this way. Today, Chainlink published an article focusing on the fundamental capabilities that RWAs should have. There are basically three main topics:
- Should be able to be enriched with real-world data.
- Should be able to be securely transferred across chains.
- Should be able to connect to off-chain data regardless of the chain they are on.
“Chainlink, as a decentralized computation platform that provides transaction value of over 8.8 trillion dollars, is the only fully-featured platform that can solve each of these requirements for tokenized real-world assets while maintaining the high-security level that institutions need.”
All these details are important because the hype in the RWA sector is not like the metaverse or others. Today, Floki launched its own RWA venture, and others will surely follow. However, this does not mean that they will actually do business in the RWA sector. Because we are talking about a category that requires much more technical competence than the metaverse, NFT, and other temporary hype areas.
In the past, we had news about “fake Metaverse”. Those who sold land on the map, etc., what happened to them today? They turned into a big zero. The ability to warn before it happens is only found in people who analyze the past well. The same will happen with fake RWA ventures. They may bring significant gains in the short term, but they will most likely take you down to zero.