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Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl stated that in the context of rising inflation in the United States, the Federal Reserve may maintain a high interest rate policy for a long time, which will have three core impacts on the cryptocurrency market. He believes that as the U.S. CPI approaches 4%, the new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has almost no room for interest rate cuts, and the market currently expects the first rate cut to be delayed until September 2027. Grayscale pointed out that long-term high interest rates will put pressure on "currency devaluation trades" such as Bitcoin. Since Bitcoin, like gold, is a non-yielding asset, higher real interest rates will increase the opportunity cost of holding dollar-denominated assets. However, it remains optimistic about Bitcoin's long-term prospects and believes that regulatory benefits such as the CLARITY Act can partially offset the related pressures. In addition, it believes that a high interest rate environment will accelerate the tokenization of fixed income assets. Currently, the yields on dollar-denominated fixed income products are higher than those of most DeFi yields; for example, the USDC lending rate on Aave is about 3.6%, while the yield on short-term corporate bonds is about 4.5%. Grayscale also stated that stablecoin issuers will benefit from high interest rates. Since the GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoins from paying interest to users, issuers can retain the income from reserve assets. It estimates that for every 25 basis point increase in short-term rates, Circle's revenue will increase by approximately $190 million.

According to Businesswire, Nasdaq-listed company Datavault AI announced its business update for the first quarter of 2026, revealing that the company has signed over $800 million in tokenized contracts, with approximately $100 million in fees expected to be recognized in 2026, achieving about $75 million in new contract scale for the first quarter, further validating institutional demand for RWA (real-world asset) tokenization platforms.In terms of assets and financing, the company has strengthened its balance sheet through a $60 million private placement and an additional $120 million in non-dilutive financing, while advancing the expansion of the SanQtum AI infrastructure platform across the United States, and plans to expand its quantum-secure GPU edge network by the end of 2026, deploying approximately 48,000 GPUs.

Forward Industries, a Solana treasury company, announced its quarterly financial report for the period ending March 31, 2026, showing a year-on-year revenue increase of 319% to $13 million. However, due to the decline in the fair value of crypto assets, net losses widened to $283.1 million.The company stated that the growth this quarter was mainly driven by increased staking rewards from Solana (SOL). However, during the same period, it recorded a digital asset loss of $201.7 million and an asset impairment of $85.1 million, primarily due to the price volatility of SOL leading to a decrease in the valuation of holdings.The financial report indicated that the company held approximately 7.04 million SOL during the quarter and earned about 201,200 SOL in rewards through staking, with nearly all SOL assets being staked. Solana fell approximately 33.7% during the reporting period, closing at $82.44. Price volatility is considered the core factor dragging down financial performance.Additionally, Forward Industries signed a loan agreement with Galaxy Digital in March and drew the first tranche of $40 million in financing, using fwdSOL as collateral, with a comprehensive annual interest rate of about 3.4%. The company stated that this financing is used to optimize its liquidity structure.Company management indicated that they have adjusted the balance sheet through cost reductions, debt instruments, and stock buybacks to cope with market volatility and enhance long-term value. Despite a significant widening of quarterly losses, the company's stock price slightly declined in after-hours trading following the financial report, but it still recorded a monthly increase recently.

The Gate Research Institute recently released the "April 2026 Cryptocurrency Market Review" report, which pointed out that the cryptocurrency market in April showed an overall upward trend, with total market capitalization significantly rising compared to March. The trading volume of BTC and ETH ETFs remained high and volatile. The report indicates that the activity levels of major public chain ecosystems continue to diverge. Solana's daily trading volume remained in the range of approximately 90 million to 110 million transactions, continuing to lead.In terms of hot sectors, the report noted that Pokemon TCG RWA has become one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors of on-chain RWA and entered a secondary explosion phase in April. Major trading platforms saw monthly trading volumes exceed 220 million USD, with weekly revenue nearing 6 million USD at one point, setting a new historical high. Meanwhile, Aave experienced the most severe liquidity shock in its history in April, with TVL outflows reaching hundreds of billions of dollars within days, and net outflows for the month exceeding 9 billion USD.Regarding financing and security incidents, the Web3 industry completed a total of 51 financing rounds in April, with a total amount of approximately 834 million USD, with funds further concentrating in leading finance and infrastructure sectors. Among them, Payward topped the monthly financing with 200 million USD. On the security front, Web3 security incidents in April resulted in losses of approximately 306 million USD, a month-on-month increase of about 858%, primarily driven by a single cross-chain infrastructure attack incident involving Kelp DAO, which amounted to about 293 million USD. The report believes that against the backdrop of a market recovery, on-chain activity and capital liquidity are improving simultaneously, but the security risks of cross-chain infrastructure and high-leverage protocols still warrant ongoing attention.

The Gate Research Institute recently released the report "April 2026 Cryptocurrency Market Review," indicating that the cryptocurrency market in April showed an overall upward trend, with total market capitalization significantly higher than in March, and BTC and ETH ETF trading volumes maintaining high volatility. The report shows that the activity levels of major public chain ecosystems continue to diverge. Solana's daily trading volume remains in the range of approximately 90 million to 110 million transactions, continuing to lead.In terms of hot sectors, the report points out that Pokemon TCG RWA has become one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors of on-chain RWA and entered a secondary explosion phase in April. Major trading platforms saw monthly trading volumes exceed 220 million USD, with weekly revenue nearing 6 million USD at one point, setting a new historical high. Meanwhile, Aave experienced the most severe liquidity shock in its history in April, with TVL outflows reaching hundreds of billions of dollars within a few days, and net outflows for the entire month exceeding 9 billion USD.Regarding financing and security incidents, the Web3 industry completed a total of 51 financing rounds in April, with a total amount of approximately 834 million USD, with funds further concentrating in leading finance and infrastructure sectors. Among them, Payward ranked first for the month with 200 million USD in financing.On the security front, Web3 security incidents in April resulted in losses of approximately 306 million USD, a month-on-month increase of about 858%, primarily driven by a cross-chain infrastructure attack incident involving Kelp DAO, which amounted to about 293 million USD. The report believes that against the backdrop of market recovery, on-chain activity and capital liquidity have both increased, but the security risks of cross-chain infrastructure and high-leverage protocols still warrant ongoing attention.

YZi Labs announced the 25 graduation projects of its flagship incubation project EASY Residency for the third season, focusing on areas such as on-chain financial market structure reconstruction, AI agents, tokenization of real-world assets, prediction markets, and privacy compliance. The 25 projects include:Identity and payment infrastructure for AI agents on the BNB chain Bank of AI, litigation workflow legal evidence indexing tool Brief Tech, AI probability output verifiable reasoning platform Cournot, financialized social network and trading platform Dapital, programmable token issuance infrastructure Flap;On-chain marketplace for collectibles and intellectual property assets GEMINT, on-chain options and structured products platform LayerV, CEX-level on-chain liquidity platform LunarBase, multi-market agent capital acquisition platform L7, DeFi unified margin layer Möbius, permissionless margin trading protocol Nemesis;AI agent-driven automated financial decision execution layer Newsliquid, tokenized private market exposure DeFi platform Openstocks, on-chain poker skill game options market PokerFi, prediction market automation and intelligence infrastructure Polysights, physical collectibles RWA liquidity infrastructure Renaiss;Fixed-rate decentralized lending platform TermMax, compliance-oriented digital asset privacy infrastructure 0xBow, AI agent workflow self-custody authorization layer Functor, interest-free stablecoin new bank for the Muslim market Isaac, on-chain prime brokerage platform for the BNB chain MARGIN X;Frictionless stablecoin exchange N-dimensional AMM Orbswap, compliance-oriented cross-chain privacy exchange protocol SilentSwap, crypto market AI agent trading and automation infrastructure Taco AI, on-chain event-driven derivatives platform Vibe.fun.

The regulated securitization trading platform tZERO announced the integration of its tokenized issuance platform into the Aptos network, enabling issuers to directly issue real-world asset (RWA) tokens on this high-performance public chain, further broadening the on-chain path for institutional-grade assets.Aptos is positioned as the underlying network for institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure and is continuously attracting traditional finance and compliant tokenization platforms. Currently, tokenized funds from institutions such as BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are already operating on-chain.With the integration of tZERO, the compliant asset issuance and trading infrastructure on Aptos has been further improved, covering the full chain capabilities from issuance, circulation to settlement.

According to the official disclosure from BNB Chain, the total locked value (TVL) of real world assets (RWA) on the BNB Chain has officially surpassed $4 billion, setting a new historical high. This milestone marks the continued rapid growth of the BNB Chain RWA sector—by Q4 2025, the TVL of this sector was approximately $2 billion, doubling within six months.

According to the official disclosure from BNB Chain, the total locked value (TVL) of real world assets (RWA) on the BNB Chain has officially surpassed $4 billion, setting a new historical high. This milestone marks the continued rapid growth of the BNB Chain RWA sector—by Q4 2025, the TVL of this sector was approximately $2 billion, doubling within six months.

The Sui Network ecosystem welcomes a new reality asset (RWA) application expansion, as Creek Finance announces the launch of its core protocol on the Sui mainnet and the integration of the gold token XAUm launched by Matrixdock.The protocol allows users to split, collateralize, lend, trade, and generate yields on tokenized physical gold on-chain, enabling DeFi operations around gold assets. XAUm is backed 1:1 by physical gold and is verified through third-party audits and on-chain reserve proof mechanisms.Creek Finance stated that this launch marks the official deployment of its core contract, allowing users to perform leverage and yield strategy operations based on gold assets in a permissionless environment, further expanding the application scenarios of RWA in DeFi.

According to a report by CoinGecko, as of March 31, 2026, the market value of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) reached $19.32 billion, a growth of 256.7% from $5.42 billion at the beginning of 2025. Among them, tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds remain the largest category, with a scale exceeding $10 billion; tokenized commodities increased to $5.55 billion, mainly driven by gold-backed tokens XAUT and PAXG.The report also stated that in the first quarter of 2026, the trading volume of tokenized gold spot reached $90.7 billion, and the trading volume of tokenized stock spot reached $15.1 billion, both exceeding the levels of the corresponding period in 2025. During the same period, the total trading volume of RWA perpetual contracts rose to $524.8 billion.

The on-chain RWA concept project LienFi's token LFI has a market capitalization exceeding $10 million, reaching a historic high of $10.36 million, with a 24-hour increase of 61.2%.The project claims to be developed by a team from one of the largest property tax lien hedge funds in the United States, aiming to address the practical operational friction and significant knowledge barrier obstacles that ordinary investors face when trying to obtain property tax lien returns.

CITIC International Auction in Hong Kong kicked off the "Spring Art Treasures Auction (Part Two)", with the core lot Lot 61 "Five Dynasties Chai Kiln Celadon Tombstone Base" achieving a record sale of HKD 660 million. This move not only refreshes the market height of the Chai Kiln system but also marks the official start of a new asset cycle in the art RWA ecosystem centered around $CHAI.Previously, the Chai Kiln system had a transaction record of approximately HKD 380 million, forming the initial price anchor for this system. The hammer price of HKD 660 million is an orderly upward exploration based on the existing anchor point, demonstrating the market's continued recognition of this asset class. Chairman Huang pointed out that continuously establishing a reference system through market mechanisms will further solidify the foundational role of $CHAI in on-chain value mapping and pricing.

According to Newtimes, the lower house of the Rwandan Parliament passed a virtual asset regulatory bill on May 5, aimed at regulating cryptocurrency trading, protecting investors, and maintaining the stability of the financial system.The bill stipulates that individuals operating virtual asset businesses without authorization will face 3 to 5 years of imprisonment and fines ranging from 30 million to 50 million Rwandan francs, while companies may be fined up to 100 million Rwandan francs. The Capital Market Authority will serve as the main regulatory body, working in conjunction with the National Bank of Rwanda for enforcement. The bill is pending presidential signature and will take effect after publication in the official gazette, with detailed implementation rules to be formulated after the law comes into effect.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has organized the 153 partners and ecosystem participants of Ondo Finance, covering multiple key areas such as TradFi, public chains, custody, DeFi, exchanges, wallets, cross-chain bridges, payments, and service providers. This list fully demonstrates how Ondo has completed the transition from a single government bond yield product to an RWA infrastructure platform within three years, with its TVL growing from approximately $534 million in 2024 to over $3 billion in 2026, capturing about 58%-80% of the tokenized stock market. In the traditional finance layer, institutions such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard, and PayPal are prominently featured, indicating that Ondo is no longer just serving traditional finance clients but is also undertaking the complex compliance packaging, on-chain issuance, and settlement capabilities involved in the tokenization process, effectively becoming Wall Street's on-chain asset "outsourcer." In the custody and institutional funding layer, the inclusion of leading custodians like Anchorage Digital, BitGo, Fireblocks, and Cobo signifies that Ondo has obtained the most critical entry permissions for institutional funds. In the on-chain liquidity layer, 15 public chains including Ethereum, Solana, Sui, and Aptos, along with DeFi protocols such as Pendle, Morpho, Curve, 1inch, and Euler, collectively form its liquidity network. Essentially, Ondo is transforming traditional finance's "static assets" into on-chain tradable, collateralizable, and composable assets. In the trading and payment distribution layer, the large-scale integration of Ripple, exchanges, wallets, and payment service providers indicates that Ondo has expanded from merely "selling yield products" to further extending into trading, clearing, and payment processes, attempting to master the complete circulation path of RWA. Related compilation: 【Ondo Finance Web3 Partner Network Compilation (Continuously Updated)】 Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks have become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 projects to claim their information and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of cryptocurrency project ecosystem maps, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners serving upstream clients like Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase. If you wish to nominate your project in future ecosystem maps, please fill out the 【RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping】 form to supplement your important clients and partners.

According to data released by Sentora on platform X, 43.7% of the market value of active real-world assets (RWA) on Solana is deployed in DeFi lending, while this proportion on Ethereum is only 6.1%. Sentora stated that assets on Ethereum are idle, while assets on Solana are operating as collateral in an active credit market.

a16z Crypto stated on platform X that the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) has grown tenfold in two years, now exceeding $30 billion, with nearly half being U.S. Treasury bonds. This growth reflects the increasing demand from institutions to tokenize traditional financial instruments such as government bonds, commodities, stocks, and private credit.Although U.S. Treasury bonds currently dominate, this asset class is expanding, with more categories gaining significant shares in recent quarters.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Milan stated that reducing forward guidance will make the Federal Reserve's policy more flexible.