RWAfi Emerging in the Ecosystem: Plume Network Built for Encryption Native Users

Real World Assets (RWA) are gradually becoming the focus of market attention as an important link between traditional finance and encryption. However, the current RWA market still faces many challenges: inefficiency, high costs, and a lack of smooth connection between the traditional financial system and the on-chain ecosystem, with bottlenecks in further development urgently needing to be overcome.

To address this issue, a fully integrated and modular chain focused on RWAfi has emerged. As the first truly public chain serving encryption-native users, this project is committed to providing more efficient, transparent, and convenient solutions by creating a dynamic, liquid, and composable market for RWA, redefining finance to be as multifunctional as native encryption assets.

Financing in tens of millions, deploying assets over one billion

After nearly a year of rapid development, the project has been recognized by the community, institutions, emerging banks, and encryption native protocols (such as lending protocols, perpetual contract DEX, AMM, etc.) as the best solution for RWAfi. Currently, more than 180 projects have been built on it, with a total deployed asset of over $1 billion, and several hundred million assets are about to go on-chain. During a two-month testing phase, the project 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 vitality of the ecosystem and the enthusiasm of user participation.

In November, the project 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 project team immediately raised the cap to 30 million USD, ultimately exceeding the target in 90 minutes, with the oversubscription reaching 6 times the original plan.

The growth potential of this project has also been recognized by several well-known VCs, having accumulated a total of $30 million in financing so far. In May of this year, the project team announced the completion of a $10 million seed round financing, with participation from several well-known venture capital firms. This round of financing has laid a solid foundation for its innovation and expansion in the RWAfi field.

On December 18, the project team announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing (with a total financing amount of $30 million), with several internationally renowned investment institutions participating in this round of financing.

A blockchain ecosystem designed for RWA, leveraging DeFi principles

Although there are already many Layer 1 projects in the industry, new projects continuously entering this field make the competition increasingly fierce. However, due to the customized needs for permission management, compliance, and liquidity in the series of operations of real-world assets on the chain, the project realized the need to build a blockchain specifically designed for RWA, and to achieve its goal by embedding more customizations and functionalities at the network level.

Unlike traditional RWA models, this project aims to create a more efficient and accessible ecosystem for encryption 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, which means that tokenized RWAs can be composable and flexible like native encryption assets. Based on the idea of adopting encryption natively, the project team prioritizes composability, liquidity, permissionlessness, and interoperability from the perspective of building what encryption users truly need, and designs products and services around RWAfi.

The project's modular infrastructure is specifically designed to support the tokenization and management of real-world assets, with its core components being the tokenization engine, smart wallet, and on-chain data highway. Through the collaborative operation of these components, it provides a seamless and secure environment for managing multiple asset classes, ensuring compliance, and promoting data integration.

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

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

In terms of critical asset liquidity and market efficiency, the project promotes liquidity development by collaborating with trusted liquidity providers and deploying yield enhancement mechanisms. Its trading functionality enhances 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 increasing asset stability, while leveraging liquidity and yield opportunities in the RWA market.

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

As a special field at the intersection of blockchain technology and traditional assets, the immense potential of RWA stems 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 finance users, so most products struggle to find a market fit.

The project believes that in order to truly promote the growth of RWA, it is essential to first understand the needs of on-chain users. Its RWAfi concept not only aims to bring RWAs on-chain but also to create products that are easy for users to understand and accept by adhering to what they are already doing in conjunction with the traditional and encryption-native world. This is because on-chain users are often the most vibrant and innovative when exploring RWAfi application scenarios, with a strong demand for real returns, liquidity, and composability. Essentially, the project meets these needs in a manner similar to DeFi, aligning the products with the market. Users are superficially engaging with decentralized financial products, but behind them are real-world assets that can generate actual returns.

As an open and permissionless chain, this project offers an easy-to-use, compliant, and efficient asset tokenization tool, allowing anyone to build and promote development freely without restrictions. Among the hundreds of protocols that have already attracted attention, these assets cover a variety of categories. Currently, its asset categories can be broadly 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; and financial instruments are primarily stocks or corporate bonds.

However, for the vast majority of encryption users, the category of the asset itself is not important; its use and potential returns are the focus. Therefore, based on the starting point of benefiting existing on-chain users, this project will also focus on the three most important use cases for encryption users. The first category is yield farming, which revolves around earning returns through methods such as depositing funds and performing circular operations, while achieving efficiency and convenience in operations. The second category is trading, which includes buying and selling, lending, and traditional spot trading. The third category is speculation, mainly involving derivatives and other similar high-risk investment operations. This project focuses on assets and application scenarios related to these protocols, making them more aligned with the actual needs of encryption users.

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

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

Looking ahead, this project, which is about to officially launch its mainnet, will technically further enhance the scalability and security of its infrastructure based on the existing foundation, and further integrate to improve data privacy; in terms of ecological development and RWA expansion, it will undoubtedly increase more asset classes, including tokenized luxury goods, stocks, and new forms of commodities; in addition, by expanding cooperation with financial institutions, it 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 will also make it an important bridge for promoting RWAfi development.