BlackRock said: “Tokenization today is where the internet was in 1996.”
What does that really mean?
In ’96, the internet already worked —
Websites loaded. Email delivered.
But adoption was tiny. Amazon had only sold $16M in books. Google, Facebook, Netflix didn’t exist.
Skeptics weren’t wrong about the early problems —
they were wrong about the trajectory. Tokenization in 2025 looks the same.
The infrastructure works.
L1 chains like Ethereum has moved trillions with near-perfect uptime.
L2 chain(s) like
@0xPolygonEco @0xPolygon is now a proven chain for institutional tokenization.
According to
rwa.xyz (12/6/25):
The global RWA market (excluding stablecoins) is $18.2B U.S. Treasuries make up $8.7B of that
Polygon hosts 30 tokenized assets and growing totaling $323M, ranking #8 among all chains
Real usage is here — you are still early, but accelerating.
Tokenized treasuries, private credit, commodities, institutional funds — all live today on public blockchains like Polygon.
We’re still early.... And
@Chainwise_2025 knows it...
The next decade decides how big this becomes.
— Chainwise
Supporting
@0xPolygonEco @0xPolygon