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RWA to GRWAs, green asset tokenization ignites a new battlef


Just after the Spring Festival, the White House in the United States has changed hands, and the global industrial and economic landscape has undergone significant changes. Trump joins hands with Musk to consolidate the US dollar through blockchain finance, reshape the current situation where the Federal Reserve and Wall Street have long influenced global finance from the United States, and accelerate the development of the digital economy domestically. Although the starting point is different, the viewpoint of valuing blockchain technology is the same.
Will Trump consolidate the US dollar, accelerate his entry into encrypted finance, reuse oil as a bargaining chip in economic warfare, and green assets become the next area of attack?


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#The intersection of digital economy and sustainable development
On the other side of the ocean in Europe and Asia, sustainable development has become an irreversible trend and a potential area that is poised to take off. The tokenization of Green Real World Assets (GRWA), which combines green industry assets with RWA, will become the core of sustainable digital economy and a financial battlefield that cannot be ignored.

GRWA, Digitize green assets in the real world (such as carbon assets, renewable energy, green buildings, sustainable agriculture, and tourism) and enhance liquidity between capital and assets through blockchain tokenization technology.


#Reverse thinking, Trump opposes green industries?
Although Trump immediately withdrew from the Paris Agreement after taking office and increased the pressure and impact on the US petrochemical energy vehicle industry by increasing domestic crude oil extraction and reducing green energy and carbon reduction regulations. However, from the perspective of Trump's extreme efforts to rebuild the United States in the political and economic fields, insisting on the absolute dominant hegemony of the United States that "pulling a hair to benefit the world, not doing anything", taking all measures that are beneficial to America's competitive advantage does not mean that Trump's policies are against green industries.

On the contrary, considering Europe's insistence on sustainable development and China's policy of developing green energy& ldquo; Sustainable Development; For Trump, it is also possible to become a means of economic and trade competition for domestic relaxation and external application. Especially, combined with the United States' dominant position in blockchain encryption technology and digital economy, and the development of sustainable green digital finance, it is still an issue that cannot be ignored.


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#RWA,Developing new opportunities for global asset digitization
RWA,Real world assets, through blockchain tokenization technology, have become the path for traditional asset securitization to enter digital finance. After assets become financial products, they can be split into tokens bound to physical assets, which not only have the advantages of transparency, security, and immutability, but also provide convenience and circulation channels for public investment.

According to BCG (Boston Consulting Group) in the United States, the size of tokenized assets has exceeded one trillion US dollars by 2023, and it is expected that the total market value will exceed 16 trillion US dollars by 2030. In the current global asset structure of 900 trillion yuan, the real estate value of entities accounts for about 30% of 330 trillion yuan, including 300 trillion yuan of treasury bond bonds, 120 trillion yuan of currency, and 115 trillion yuan of equity. The three categories of financial assets account for 60% of the total.
Tokenized assets are expected to grow from $1 trillion in 2023 to $16 trillion by 2030

Green assets are not included in the $90 trillion assets. In the current development of green industries, from basic carbon emission reduction and incremental carbon quotas, credits, carbon sinks, to carbon capture, carbon sequestration, biochar& hellip; Waiting for technological assets; To the development of green energy, green computing power, zero carbon green energy parks, smart cities, and green tourism… Many innovative models of value creation can be transformed into physical and virtual smart assets in the real world. Based on blockchain technology, GRWA will accelerate the effective integration of digital economy and sustainable development.
The total global asset value is 900 trillion US dollars, with currency, securities, and financial assets accounting for 60% and real estate accounting for 30%


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#From gold to oil, from currency to cryptocurrency
After World War II, in 1944, the Bretton Woods system established an international monetary system based on gold assets and centered around the US dollar. In 1971, the US economy declined and was unable to maintain a fixed exchange rate between the US dollar and gold. In 1974, the US dollar was used to bind oil assets as the settlement currency, replacing the Bretton Woods system with the "petrodollar" instead of the "gold dollar", once again consolidating the international financial status of the US dollar.

In 1944, the Brett Forest system centered on the gold standard dollar collapsed, and the value of green assets from oil to the future was infinite

Today, the rapid growth of the US treasury bond and the issuance of a large number of US dollars have raised doubts about the credibility of the US. Many central banks around the world, and even shareholders of large US banks and the Federal Reserve, are lowering the US dollar and increasing gold reserves. In order to consolidate the US dollar, both Biden and Trump have adopted trade protectionism and increased tariffs to save the economy.

The investment of treasury bond bond RWA increased rapidly during Trump's election

Compared with Biden, Trump has also reversed his past attitude, embraced cryptocurrency and actively adopted crypto financial means. In addition to the initiative of taking one million bitcoins as the national financial reserve during the election campaign, he also anchored the token RWA of US treasury bond while selling US treasury bond bonds globally. After sinking into the market of public investment, it showed rapid growth. According to Ondo Finance, the number of holders of US treasury bond RWAs increased by 780% in 2024, from 1376 on January 1 to 12141 a year later.


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#GRWA Benefiting from sustainable development
The emergence of blockchain technology and smart contracts has enabled physical and non physical assets (such as smart assets, patents, brands, etc.) in the real world to be introduced into the financial system through RWA, solving problems such as high entry barriers, insufficient liquidity, and complex management. The financialization and equity division of assets provide a convenient solution for the public to participate in investment, trading, circulation, and realization.

This innovative financing method has a greater positive impact on the development of GRWA, as not only professional and large-scale investment institutions, but also the general public can participate in large-scale environmental projects that require a large amount of capital with smaller investments.


#Anchoring energy assets from a historical perspective
In 2017, Venezuela faced economic deterioration, currency depreciation, and economic sanctions led by the United States. President Nicolas Maduroá Maduro Moros announced the Petro, a national level cryptocurrency financing that is primarily backed by Venezuela's abundant oil reserves, amid the ICO boom.

Venezuela issues Petro cryptocurrency with national oil reserves

Looking back at the history of Petro coin, there is a lack of credit support from financial reserves such as USDT or USDC stablecoins, and the Petro coin issued in Venezuela also lacks an anchored asset trust to ensure the value of the cryptocurrency's asset backing. In 2018, then US President Trump also signed an executive order prohibiting individuals or companies subject to US jurisdiction from participating in Petro trading, which further doomed the failure of Petro.

Examine the well-developed Asset Backed Securities (ABS) under traditional financial regulations, as well as RWA-T, which gradually incorporates the lack of ICO development in 2017 into China's securities regulatory framework and proposes feasible implementation plans. For energy assets and green assets generated by global sustainable development initiatives, as well as the funding sources required for these initiatives, innovative and publicly accessible capital financing solutions are provided.


#GRWA The infinite possibilities of blockchain technology and green finance
In January 2025, Italian green energy company Enel Group launched a solar panel tokenization product, allowing individuals to own a portion of Enel's solar panels through investment tokens and use their power generation rights to offset residential electricity consumption.

Enel issues asset tokens for solar panels, allowing investors to offset residential electricity consumption

The DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) project based on ReFi (Regenerative Finance) infrastructure, Arkreen Network, The energy used in the distributed network using Web3 blockchain is linked in accordance with the International Renewable Energy Foundation's I-REC Standard, and green certificates issued by I-REC are provided to mining machines that generate blocks and tokens on the network.

Arkeen's mining solution adopts green electricity to solve the energy consumption and environmental problems caused by traditional blockchain mining

The mining industry, which has been banned due to energy waste and environmental issues, may gradually improve the sustainable issues of energy consumption and waste in blockchain development through innovative GRWA and the evolution from POW to POS protocol. Even with RWA's innovative financial model, it has transformed from a former energy consuming industry to an important force in promoting green energy zero carbon and green industry innovation in sustainable development.

 

 

The article was published in2025-03-13