Tokenised real-world assets

Imagine wanting a US$190 million Marilyn painting, or a 1963 Andy Warhol painting titled ‘Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)’ - an artwork bought for US$105 million, or having to pay a lesser US$850,000 for a print of Queen Elizabeth II. How many art lovers could afford this? But, what if you could buy shares of an artwork or what if you could buy fractions of a publicly-traded company? That is the core principle behind tokenisation of real-world assets. According to Barchart, real world asset (RWA) tokenisation is “the process of representing ownership or rights to a real-world asset using digital tokens on a blockchain or distributed ledger.” Often referred to as “security tokens”, which can be bought and sold on digital asset exchanges, tokenised RWAs are digital representations of physical assets that have been authenticated and verified.

Tokenisation of global illiquid assets to be a $16trillion business opportunity by 2030

Source: Boston Consulting Group

Indeed, a research report b…