
Hanzo ㊗️|Sep 14, 2025 13:36
RWA metrics are completely broken right now.
TVL has turned into a marketing tool, not a measure of real adoption.
Teams can just mint tokens to 10 dead wallets, mirror their internal databases on-chain, and suddenly claim billions in “tokenized assets.”
No trades, no transfers, no actual risk — just numbers on a dashboard.
This isn’t just misleading, it’s dangerous.
People see those inflated TVL figures and assume RWA adoption is exploding, so they invest based on a false narrative.
When the truth comes out, capital evaporates, and trust gets destroyed.
How do we fix this?
We need to stop rewarding raw TVL and start demanding proof-of-activity, the same way exchanges were forced to provide proof-of-reserves after FTX.
If an asset is truly on-chain, there should be verifiable movement: trades, counterparties, collateral transfers.
No activity = no listing.
On top of that, RWA platforms should split data into two clear buckets:
– Reported TVL → what projects claim
– Verified TVL → what can be actually seen and validated on-chain
This gives users transparency while making it clear what’s signal and what’s noise.
Until incentives are fixed and metrics are cleaned up, the RWA space will keep rewarding illusions over progress — and that’s a narrative that can’t end well.(Hanzo ㊗️)
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