Blockchains (a distributed ledger that is immutable) has already taken the world by storm due to being the engines behind cryptocurrencies, whether established cryptocurrencies, alternative coins or even stablecoins (tokens backed by legal tender, normally either currency or a high-value commodity such as gold).
As blockchains have continued to revolutionize multiple industries in diverse sections even outside of the crypto and web3 spaces, a strong interest has developed into using blockchains for the tokenization of Real-World Assets.

The History of Blockchains as a catalyst for Real-World Assets

While early digital representations of illiquid assets were attempted via predecessors to blockchains such as E-Gold, they suffered from severe issues with scalability.
After Bitcoin was introduced in 2009, a renewed interest in tokenization was spurred with attempts such as Colored Coins and Mastercoin being the original implementations of RWA tokenization. Because of the technological limitation, this ultimately failed.

After Ethereum was launched in 2015 with the concept of the Smart Contract (a secure self-executing contract), it significantly impacted this endeavour as this allowed management of the complex rules of asset ownership and transfer without intermediaries.

This breakthrough prompted the launch of Digix in 2015 which enabled the first tokenization of a Manhattan condominium in 2018 thus proving the feasibility of the concept. After the development of the ERC-20 token standard, this provided a “universal language” for tokens, enabling interoperability and making RWA tokenization more practical.

The Contemporary Era

Since 2020 there has been institutional adoption and growth due to institutional interest, improved technology, and greater regulatory clarity.

Major financial groups such as BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Franklin Templeton have launched pilot programs and tokenized funds (e.g. BlackRock’s BUIDL fund).

This has generated a market growth of nearly tenfold from $2.9 Billion (USD) to over $30 Billion by late 2025. Standard Chartered projects that tokenized RWAs will surge to over $2 Trillion by 2028. Of that, an estimated $750 Billion is expected to flow into tokenized money-market funds, another $750 Billion into tokenized U.S equities, with the rest spread across real-estate, private credit, commodities, and debt.

The current leaders of the Tokenization Race are Securitize Inc ($4 Billion+ tokenized funds as of May 2025), R3 ($10 Billion+ on regulated networks), and Avalanche ($6 Billion on-chain Private Equity).

Why is tokenization important?

Tokenization of Real-World Assets via Blockchains offers a secure and streamlined approach for investors, organizations, and businesses to fuel economic growth and help development and growth for entrepreneurs and industry leaders.

With the use of tokenized assets (whether fungible i.e for items where there are multiples, or non-fungible i.e only one can exists such as an identity), industries can forge the next generation of development and industry without the limitations of traditional borders.

Assets such as tangible assets (i.e real-estate, rare artworks, vehicles, etc.) or intangible assets (i.e equities or shares) can be tokenized and due to the robust nature of blockchains, this can allow for novel investment strategies such as fractional ownership (where multiple groups of investors can band together to stake in larger and more profitable ventures).

How is the GondwanaChain project addressing this?

Our blockchain is built on an enterprise-grade framework by highly regarded open-source institutions, and enhanced with next-generation features such a Post-Quantum Cryptography for future-proofing security, and ISO20022 for seamless integration with traditional finance.

In addition, our solution is less resource intensive, more affordable, and specifically targeted with the African continent.

We presently are welcoming early adopters and investors for mutually beneficial collaboration to ensure greater participation in this rapidly growing industry.

At present we are raising $500 000 (US Dollar) to help launch our project.
If you are interested in collaborating with us, please email us at technical@coinafriq.org.

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