It is not only physical assets. That was the part that really shifted the ground under me. Because in my head, the idea was still limited to obvious, touchable things: a newly built house, land, buildings, machinery, maybe art hanging in a private room, But he kept going. Bonds can be tokenized. Debt can be tokenized. Invoices, private credit, treasury products, equity, and other financial instruments can also be represented on-chain. Real World Assets, he explained, are not just about taking physical things and dragging them into crypto. They are about bringing forms of real-world value, both tangible and intangible, onto digital rails. That was when the idea clicked for me. I had been thinking about high-value assets the way families think about them: who controls them, who inherits them, how difficult they are to transfer, and what can go wrong when no clear path exists for what happens next. Crypto was thinking about them differently. It was asking a different question: not “can you carry the asset on your phone?” but “can the ownership, cash flow, or financial exposure attached to that asset move at the speed of the internet?” Once you see it that way, RWAs stop looking like a niche trend and start looking like a rewrite of how value travels. And that, for me, was the real beginning of understanding real-world assets in crypto