A New Chapter for the RWAfi Ecosystem: In-Depth Analysis of the Plume Network Designed for Native Encryption Users

Real World Assets (RWA) are gradually becoming the focus of market attention as an important link between traditional finance and cryptocurrency. However, the current RWA market still faces many challenges: low efficiency, high costs, insufficient smooth connection between the traditional financial system and the on-chain ecosystem, and developmental bottlenecks that urgently need to be overcome.

To solve this problem, a fully integrated and modular chain focused on RWAfi has emerged. As the first truly public chain serving encryption-native users, this innovative platform is committed to providing more efficient, transparent, and convenient solutions by creating a dynamic, liquid, and composable RWA market to redefine finance, making it as versatile as native encryption assets.

Rapid Rise: Breakthrough Progress in Financing Scale and Asset Deployment

After nearly a year of rapid development, this emerging RWAfi platform has been recognized by the community, institutions, emerging banks, and encryption-native protocols (such as lending protocols, perpetual contract DEXs, AMMs, etc.) as the best solution for RWAfi. Currently, over 180 projects have been built on this platform, with a total deployed asset exceeding 1 billion USD, and several hundred million assets are about to go on-chain. During a two-month testing activity, the platform also achieved significant results: the number of active wallets exceeded 3.75 million, and the on-chain transaction volume surpassed 270 million, fully demonstrating the vibrancy of the ecosystem and user participation enthusiasm.

In November, the platform held a pre-storage event with an initial target of 5 million USD, which was quickly filled in 70 seconds, exceeding expectations. In response to the huge demand from the community, the platform promptly raised the cap to 30 million USD, ultimately completing the goal in 90 minutes with an oversubscription that reached 6 times the original plan.

The growth potential of this emerging platform has also been recognized by several well-known VCs, having raised a total of $30 million so far. In May this year, the platform announced the completion of a $10 million seed round, with participation from several prominent investment institutions. This round of financing has laid a solid foundation for the platform's innovation and expansion in the RWAfi field.

On December 18, the platform announced that it had completed a $20 million Series A financing (total raise of 30M), with participation from several internationally renowned investment institutions and fintech companies.

A blockchain ecosystem designed for RWA, leveraging DeFi principles

Although there are already many Layer 1s in the industry, and new projects continuously enter the space, making competition increasingly fierce. However, due to the customized needs for permission management, compliance, and liquidity of real-world assets during the series of operations on-chain, this emerging platform realizes the need to create a blockchain specifically designed for RWA, and aims to achieve its objectives by embedding more customizations and functionalities at the network level.

Unlike traditional RWA models, this platform aims to create a more efficient and accessible ecosystem for crypto users and traditional financial institutions by leveraging DeFi principles, making it the first and only protocol focused on RWAfi. RWAfi is a new model in the blockchain finance field, meaning that tokenized RWAs can be composable and flexible like native crypto assets. Based on a focus on adopting crypto-native concepts, the platform prioritizes composability, liquidity, permissionlessness, and interoperability from the perspective of building what crypto users truly need, and designs products and services around RWAfi.

The modular infrastructure of this innovative platform is designed to support the tokenization and management of real-world assets, with the core components of its architecture being the tokenization engine, smart wallet, and on-chain data highway. Through the collaborative functioning of these components, the platform provides a seamless and secure environment for managing multiple asset classes, ensuring compliance, and facilitating data integration.

In terms of core functionality, the platform focuses on accelerating the on-chain of real-world assets, liquidity, and regulatory compliance, providing a comprehensive framework that encompasses liquidity management, built-in anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, and data access features.

The platform utilizes a network of compliant partners to achieve compliance verification of tokenized assets, ensuring that transactions meet relevant regulatory requirements. It simplifies the regulatory compliance process and user registration process by directly integrating compliance into the platform. With the integrated compliance features, users can confidently participate in RWAfi transactions, accessing a broader range of opportunities online, provided they comply with the necessary legal standards.

In terms of key asset liquidity and market efficiency, the platform promotes liquidity development by collaborating with trusted liquidity providers and deploying yield enhancement mechanisms. Its trading functions enhance the liquidity options of RWA tokens through staking, yield farming, and integration with DeFi protocols, supporting market activities. This allows users to participate in asset trading by reducing slippage and improving asset stability, while leveraging liquidity and yield opportunities in the RWA market.

Focus on real returns, with a key service for native encryption users

As a special area where blockchain technology intersects with traditional assets, the immense potential of RWA comes from the traditional financial industry. Perhaps based on this, most RWA projects are currently led by individuals with a traditional finance (TradFi) background, who attempt to bring traditional financial products onto the blockchain. However, mainstream users on the blockchain tend to be more encryption-native rather than traditional financial users, making it difficult for most products to find a market fit.

This emerging platform believes that in order to truly drive the growth of RWAs, it must first be grounded in the needs of on-chain users. Its RWAfi concept not only aims to bring RWAs on-chain but also to tailor products that are easy for users to understand and accept by following what they are already doing when integrating traditional and encryption-native worlds. This is because on-chain users are typically the most vibrant and innovative when exploring RWAfi application scenarios, with a strong demand for real yields, liquidity, and composability. Essentially, the platform meets these needs in a manner similar to DeFi, aligning products with the market. Users are superficially engaged with decentralized financial products, but behind them are real-world assets that can deliver actual returns.

As an open and permissionless chain, this platform offers an easy-to-use, compliant, and efficient asset tokenization tool, allowing anyone to freely build and drive development without restrictions. Among the hundreds of protocols that have been attracted so far, these assets span various categories. Currently, the platform's asset categories can generally be divided into three types: collectibles, alternative assets, and financial instruments. Collectibles include wine, art, watches, sneakers, and Pokémon cards; alternative assets mainly consist of private credit, real estate, or green energy projects; financial instruments are primarily focused on stocks or corporate bonds.

However, for the vast majority of encryption users, the category of the assets themselves is not important; their use and potential returns are the focus. Therefore, based on the premise of benefiting existing on-chain users, the platform also focuses its work on the three major use cases that are most important to encryption users. The first category is yield farming, which focuses on earning returns through depositing funds, performing circular operations, etc., while achieving efficiency and convenience in operations. The second category is trading, which includes buying and selling, lending, and traditional spot trading activities. The third category is speculation, mainly involving derivatives and other similar high-risk investment operations. The platform focuses on assets and application scenarios related to these protocols, making them more aligned with the actual needs of encryption users.

The platform focuses on generating real returns through yield-bearing assets and introducing real users through existing markets, expanding the use cases of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and RWAs. For example, by collaborating with RWA projects in the renewable solar energy sector, users are provided with opportunities to earn returns from solar assets valued at $100 million. This collaborative project tokenizes the "leveraging of commercial solar construction loans and post-operation assets," which will serve public school district development projects. It is reported that "these projects have 100% contracted revenue and predictable costs." According to the statement, both teams believe that the school district's commitment to these development projects reduces the overall risk of the tokenized projects, and the expected returns are between 9% and 18%.

In addition to emphasizing on-chain user needs, the platform also serves traditional financial institutions and is able to address major challenges in compliance and liquidity in promoting institutional adoption. This dual-service strategy positions it to achieve innovation and breakthroughs in the RWAfi field, meeting the different core needs of crypto-native users and traditional financial institutions.

Looking to the future, this emerging platform, which is about to officially launch its mainnet, will technically enhance the scalability and security of its infrastructure on the existing basis, and further integrate to improve data privacy; in terms of ecological development and RWA expansion, it will undoubtedly add more asset classes, including tokenized luxury goods, stocks, and new forms of commodities; moreover, by expanding cooperation with financial institutions, the platform will make it easier for institutional investors to access tokenized RWA. This strategic positioning not only facilitates the connection between the encryption world and traditional finance but also makes it an important bridge for promoting RWAfi development.