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It's pouring outside, traffic is a complete mess, and my coffee has gone cold... I casually checked the so-called RWA on-chain projects, and really, don't be fooled by the word "liquidity." To put it simply, many are just moving certificates onto the chain, while the redemption terms still stay in the off-chain notebook: T+ several days, quota limits, first-come-first-served, directly suspend redemptions when encountering risks... You see deep liquidity on DEXs, but when you actually want to exit, you find you still have to queue and look at faces at the door—that's just an illusion of liquidity.
What's even more outrageous is that people complain about validators/miners getting fat, MEV eating your slippage as snacks, and at the same time, they leave "who gets served first" in RWA to an opaque redemption queue. The fairness of ordering is hotly debated on-chain, but off-chain redemptions are simply dismissed with "subject to the manager’s explanation." Anyway, now I look at RWA and ask: Are the redemption trigger conditions hardcoded? Who has the suspension rights? Who bears the loss if the funds don't arrive? If you don’t clarify these, don’t talk to me about new narratives in on-chain finance.