Emerging Trends: Which Tokenized Real-World Asset (RWA) Sectors Are Primed for Growth?

As the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) gains momentum in 2025, investors are keenly watching which segments will lead the next wave of adoption. Key sectors showing promising traction include real estate tokenization, where fractional ownership unlocks liquidity for high-value properties, and debt capital markets, with institutions increasingly embracing blockchain-based bonds and private credit solutions. The energy sector is also emerging as a dark horse, particularly renewable energy projects leveraging tokenization for decentralized funding. Meanwhile, regulatory clarity in jurisdictions like the EU and Singapore is accelerating institutional participation in tokenized commodities and private equity. This analysis explores the macroeconomic drivers, regulatory tailwinds, and technological innovations shaping these high-potential RWA verticals.

You can see that big chunk in private credit, and the other substantial piece in the US Treasury debt category. Included in that is BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund, BUIDL, which recently hit the $2 billion Assets Under Management (AUM) mark.

Expected legislation in the US that “allows on-ramps and off-ramps to proliferate” will be crucial, Neoclassic Capital managing partner Mike Bucella said on the TokenizeThis stage Wednesday. Stablecoins and tokenized Treasury products will thus be “the foundation” for more creative onchain offerings in the coming years.

“The boring stuff is an absolute necessity, because it exists in the offchain world,” he explained. “If you can’t do that in the onchain world, then you’re not going to sit there and wait for some interesting onchain yield product; you’re going to go offchain into the traditional markets.”

As for where we go from here, Dinari Chief Business Officer Anna Wroblewska argued that after stablecoins and money market funds, publicly listed US stocks offer another easy access point for investors looking to move onchain.

Galaxy Digital tokenization head Thomas Cowan, however, noted the already-solid user experience to invest in stocks on venues like Robinhood. Therefore, he asserted, the next wave of growth could come in “places where there’s a clear lack of transparency [and] settlement risk” — i.e. private credit.

Sitting beside Cowan, 21Shares US sales head Anton Kozlov added that he also sees demand for tokenized private equity — pointing to SpaceX and OpenAI. Blockworks Research analyst Carlos Gonzalez Campo expects shares of such private companies to be tokenized within the next four years.

Crypto custody firm Taurus, in a recent report, pegged the “market opportunity” of fund tokenization at $1 trillion by 2030. While money market funds unlock use cases in collateral management, the report notes, Taurus is also bullish on tokenization within illiquid segments.

“Currently, if an investor needs to sell their stake in a private equity fund with a lock-up period of several years, their bank or asset manager must find a matching buyer through a manual process that can take weeks and relies primarily on emails and paper-based transactions,” the Taurus report states.

So while it’s SAFE to expect stablecoins and tokenized yield funds to continue growing, it remains to be seen which of these other onchain segments will next see big traction.

Meeting investors where they are, though, is a sentiment most agree on.“[Investors] want everything in a single window — kind of like a Robinhood experience — where you can access crypto, you can access stocks, down the road you can access tokenized private credit,” Kozlov said. “That’s the dream.”

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