2026 is shaping up to be the biggest year for RWAs.
We’re no longer talking about early experiments. According to
@RWA_xyz the market has grown from $20.7B at the start of 2026 to $30.9B today, which is roughly a 50% increase in just 4 months.
The pipeline ahead includes equities, commodities, and real estate moving into the same environment.
The infrastructure layer is already in place. Over the past few years, institutions built custody, compliance, and settlement rails on networks like
@CantonNetwork. Now access is expanding beyond institutions and becoming available to crypto-native users and retail.
This is where things start to get interesting.
Once RWAs move onchain, they become composable. They can be used as collateral, integrated into trading strategies, or combined with perpetuals. That’s a structural shift where real yield starts interacting with crypto-native instruments inside the same system.
At Canborsa, we are building a perp DEX at this intersection.
The idea is simple. Give users one place where they can trade both crypto and real-world assets, without intermediaries, 24/7, in a single interface. Not just hold them, but actively use them in trading through perpetuals and more advanced strategies.
Launch is coming at the end of this month. Stay tuned.