America’s RWA Tokenization Drive Poised to Unleash $100T on Ethereum Rails
Breaking: Traditional finance's sleeping giant awakens—and it's running on blockchain rails.
Wall Street's Trillion-Dollar Bet
America's real-world asset tokenization push just shifted into hyperdrive. We're talking about a seismic shift that could funnel a staggering $100 trillion worth of traditional assets onto Ethereum's decentralized infrastructure. That's not just pocket change—it's the entire global financial system getting a digital makeover.
The Ethereum Engine
Smart contracts are slicing through legacy settlement systems like a hot knife through butter. Tokenization bypasses traditional custody bottlenecks, cuts settlement times from days to seconds, and unlocks liquidity for assets previously trapped in institutional vaults. Real estate, commodities, even intellectual property—all getting the digital treatment.
Finance's Ironic Twist
The same institutions that once dismissed crypto now race to tokenize everything but their office plants. Guess even traditional finance can't resist the siren call of 24/7 markets and programmable assets—though they'll probably still charge those 2% management fees for the privilege.
Bottom line: When $100 trillion starts moving on-chain, you're not watching a trend—you're witnessing the entire financial infrastructure rewrite itself in real time.
RWA Onchain Value at ATH
With the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency and US treasuries as the world’s reserve asset, Ethereum will become the world’s ledger, he said.
People are still underestimating Ethereum.
They don’t know America is coming onchain and it’s using Ethereum as its ledger.
I demonstrated that Ethereum is leading in real world asset market share but let’s add another dimension.
Let’s talk Growth.
In the coming decades I… https://t.co/2A8TJKBgo2
— RYAN SΞAN ADAMS – rsa.eth (@RyanSAdams) September 11, 2025
Ethereum’s total value locked growth is looking like early 2021, he said in a separate post.
According to DeFiLlama, the Ethereum ecosystem TVL is currently $94 billion, which isn’t far from its 2021 peak of $108 billion. Over the past three months, it has surged 57%.
Ethereum is “the fastest growing economy ever,” observed ‘Milk Road,’ adding that it clears more value than Visa, has more dollars circulating than PayPal, and institutions are stacking it as a major treasury asset.
“Ethereum is no longer just a blockchain. It’s a digital economy scaling faster than anything we’ve seen before.”
Real-world asset value on-chain hit an all-time high this week of $29 billion, excluding stablecoins and $307 billion including them, according to RWA.xyz.
More than 75% of this total value is tokenized on Ethereum, layer-2 networks, and EVM (Ethereum VIRTUAL machine) protocols.
Additionally, a recent Bloomberg report indicated that BlackRock was planning to tokenize its ETFs. It did not mention Ethereum directly, but it could be the chosen network since the firm’s tokenized money-market fund (BUIDL) was launched on it.
Great article from my colleague @olgakharif about BlockRock’s plans to tokenize ETFs and other funds. Just like everyone downplaying digital assets being proven wrong over the last decade. Those downplaying tokenization will likely be proven wrong as well https://t.co/gAMwghK0z3
— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) September 11, 2025
Ether Price Outlook
ETH prices tapped a two-week high of $4,530 during early Asian trading on Friday morning. The asset is now up 2.8% on the day and is just 8.5% away from its all-time high.
Some analysts still expect a big September correction, but Ether has remained largely sideways for the past month as support above $4,200 solidifies.
