Citibank’s projection is aggressive: from $17 billion to $5.5 trillion, at least 30x. If the RWA sector really takes off, on-chain settlement is the make-or-break factor.

Coin Bureau news: Citi Institute said in its latest report that the current global market size for tokenized assets is about $17 billion, and it is expected to reach $5.5 trillion by 2030 under the base-case scenario. Under the bear-case and bull-case scenarios, it would be $2.7 trillion and $8.2 trillion, respectively. The report believes that the expected growth will be driven mainly by public market securities—especially tokenized settlement assets such as US stocks and government bonds, as well as stablecoins and tokenized deposits, which will be an important foundation for the expansion of tokenization.