2026: The Year Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization Goes Mainstream
In 2025, there were all these pilot projects for tokenizing real-world assets, you know, with big banks and tech firms trying out blockchain on old-school financial stuff. It felt like a lot of testing. But now, heading into 2026, things are shifting toward actual use in banks and markets every day. I think experts are saying that standards are getting built out, so tokenization is not just some experiment anymore, its turning into a base layer for making things cheaper and easier, and maybe opening up investments to more people.
One big thing that pushed this along was that No-Action Letter from the SEC at the end of last year for the Depository Trust Company, or DTCC anyway. They have this subsidiary set up to start a service tokenizing liquid assets like Russell 1000 stocks, index…
