Securing Trillions - Bringing Real Assets Onchain
Plume Network's technology unlocks the onboarding of trillions in real world assets onchain, driving a paradigm shift toward Real World Asset Finance (RWAfi).
With secure and scalable blockchain architecture, Plume enables individuals, businesses, and institutions to access new opportunities for tokenizing, trading, and managing real world assets within an open & permissionless ecosystem. This approach transforms the value of these assets through composability, programmability and global reach.
To realize this vision, we are building the Plume RWA Chain – the first full-stack Layer 1 blockchain ecosystem purpose-built to bring the real world onchain.
The Challenge: Why Existing Blockchains Fall Short for RWA’s
While blockchains like Ethereum offer strong security for crypto-native assets, they face a significant scaling challenge when it comes to securing the multi-trillion-dollar RWA market.
Consider this: Ethereum's security is tied to the value of staked ETH, currently around $120 billion.
Ethereum's proof-of-stake security model was not designed to secure even a fraction of the global RWA market, which includes firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and Fidelity, managing over $20 trillion combined.
Scaling Ethereum's security to support these assets would require an impractical increase in ETH's market capitalization.
Existing scaling solutions (including optimistic and zero-knowledge rollups) ultimately derive their security from a base layer designed for the free exchange of cryptocurrencies whose value is tied to the chain; they inherit limitations that make them unsuitable for securing large RWA volumes with exogenous value.
This creates a critical vulnerability when applying existing blockchain infrastructure to assets of global significance.
RWAfi requires a chain purpose-built for scale and resilience.
Plume's Solution: An L1 Chain Secured by RWAs
Plume addresses this challenge with an innovative approach: a new Layer 1 chain secured, in part, by tokenized RWAs themselves.
This approach, integrating tokenized RWAs into a novel consensus engine (PlumeBFT), overcomes the scalability constraints of existing blockchains while maintaining a decentralized and secure ecosystem.
This in turn creates a powerful feedback loop, attracting both crypto-native users and institutional players, further strengthening the network’s security and expanding the ecosystem.
Compared to other blockchains, Plume provides a secure, compliant, and scalable platform for RWA tokenization, designed for institutional onboarding and powered by tokenized RWA economic security:
Plume’s Modular, Scalable, Full-Stack Infrastructure
Plume’s full-stack architecture seamlessly integrates RWAs into the blockchain ecosystem, and is EVM-compatible, ensuring seamless integration with the broader Ethereum ecosystem and the tools developers already know and use.
- Arc - Tokenization Engine: Arc simplifies the tokenization process by integrating compliance workflows and reducing barriers for asset issuers, providing an efficient path to bring real-world assets onchain.
- Passport - Smart Wallets: Passport allows users to store contract code directly within their Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs). This native functionality supports RWAfi composability, yield management, and advanced account abstraction features.
- Nexus - Data Highway: Nexus enables the secure integration of real-world data into the blockchain using cutting-edge technology like zkTLS. Prioritizing data transactions within the chain unlocks opportunities such as betting on economic indicators or leveraging tokenized luxury goods.
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The Need for a Purpose-Built RWA Chain
The market for tokenized assets from the real world (RWA) represents a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity poised to redefine the onchain experience. But RWAfi demands a blockchain designed to address its unique challenges.
By onboarding assets from the real world and users through RWAfi, we bridge the gap between crypto and real world value, unlocking unmatched liquidity, global access, and transparency—expanding crypto into a trillion-dollar economy that aligns with real world needs and scales to onboard the next billion users and assets.
Only Plume is building the architecture to lead this transformation:
- Scalability: Designed to handle the trillions in value unlocked by assets from the real world.
- Security: An economic model optimized for securing assets from the real world at scale.
- Composability: Seamless integration with DeFi protocols, unlocking real yield and liquidity without trade-offs.
- Full-Stack Ecosystem: Integrated tools for tokenization, compliance, liquidity management, and distribution, fostering a thriving community of developers, asset issuers, and users within a secure, scalable, and composable environment.
The onchain future isn’t about retrofitting existing systems—it’s about building purpose-built ecosystems.
Put simply, Plume redefines how the real world interacts with the onchain world.
This is the third in a four-part series to explain what, why, how, and when Plume Network will be ready to bring the world onchain:
- Manifesto: Bringing the World Onchain With RWAfi
- Thesis: The Case for a Tokenized Future
- RWA Chain: The Only L1 Purpose-Built for Securing RWAs
- Mainnet: An RWAfi Ecosystem Ready for Business