Maple Finance learned from this and upgraded to Maple 2.0.
• Lenders can withdraw anytime (vs. 30-day lock-up)
• Pool delegates can declare early defaults
• They want to diversify into more real-world lending such as treasury & insurance.
Swarm Markets
Tokenizing traditional financial assets.
They've brought TSLA, AAPL, & U.S. treasury bills on-chain via Polygon.
Benefit? Trade tokens 24/7, even when the Traditional markets are closed.
Plus, it's legit and follows German regulations.
Ondo Finance
Institutional-grade finance on Chain. BlackRock manages the funds.
Your USDC can give you access to yields to:
• U.S. Treasuries
• Short Term Bonds
• High-Yield Income via corporate bonds.
You can further lend/borrow stables via Flux Finance
RealT
RealT allows you to buy fractional and tokenized ownership in real estate in the U.S.
The problems it solves:
• Fractional - you can own real estate starting at ~$50
• Liquidity - Digital tokens mean liquidity increases
They built a marketplace off of Aave.
MakerDAO
The OG DeFi protocol behind the $DAI stablecoin.
MakerDAO started getting into real-world assets to diversify the collateral types that back its stablecoin, DAI.
• There are ~$680m in RWAs
• The RWAs currently contribute 58% of their revenue.
MakerDao is Limiting RWAs to become more Decentralized.
"Decentralization means limiting our attack surface to physical threats, specifically our RWA collateral as a percentage of the total portfolio. In the Endgame Plan, I put this limit at 25%,” - Rune, MakerDao's founder
Other Interesting RWA Protocols to Watch For:
• Realio - EVM compatible, L1 blockchain for RWAs
• Clearpool - uncollateralized liquidity to institutions
• HomeCoin - Stablecoin backed by U.S. homes
• Agrotoken / LandX- tokenizing agriculture
RWA Protocols
• Mattereum - verifies that RWAs are legit + have legal contracts
• Helois ReFi - fund solar projects
• Consol Freight - Shipping freight invoices
• Toucan Protocol - Carbon credit market
Challenges with RWA Adoption
Despite RWA's potential, MANY challenges exist:
• Not Decentralized. Uncollateralized loans rely on centralized parties for underwriting and determining credit.
• Heavy reliance on USDC - most RWA protocols use USDC, which is centralized.