At the RWA Foundation, one of the most common questions we get is around education - specifically, how can everyday retail investors actually benefit from the rise of real-world assets? It's a great question. Here are 2 ways you can potentially benefit depending on how you look at it. 1/ You now have access to assets that were previously out of reach. Tokenized real estate, private credit, commodities, Pre-IPO, re-insurance, treasury bills - these were historically gated behind accreditation requirements, high minimums, and institutional relationships. Most retail investors simply couldn't participate. Tokenization changes that. Fractional ownership means you can get exposure to a $50M commercial property or a private credit fund with a fraction of what it used to require. That said, access doesn't equal a guaranteed return. It's still on you to do the research, understand the asset, and make smart decisions. The difference now is you actually have the option and chance. 2/ Invest in the companies building the RWA stack. You don't have to buy tokenized assets to benefit from the RWA future adoption. Think about it like the early internet some people used it, but the real wealth was made by those who backed the companies building it. The RWA stack has a lot of layers, the blockchains settling transactions, the issuance platforms bringing assets onchain, the custodians holding the underlying, the legal and compliance infrastructure making it all legitimate, and the oracles feeding real-world data into smart contracts. Every single layer has the potential to become big. Every single layer needs to be built. Identifying which companies are winning at each layer and getting exposure to them is a legitimate strategy that most retail investors are completely overlooking. The RWA opportunity is a bunch of different things. It's access to a new asset class AND a front-row seat to the infrastructure being built underneath it.

🎙️Gate Ventures New Podcast Series — The RWA Stack “DeFi Doesn’t Have a Cycle Problem — It Has a Collateral Problem” Is DeFi really broken — or just missing the right collateral layer? Join us for a deep dive into RWA, liquidity, and the future of on-chain credit 👇 👤 Host: Tiffany Chang, Gate Ventures @hella_tifficult 👤 Guest: Sonya Kim, Co-founder of 3F @sonyasunkim We’ll cover: • Why DeFi yields are stuck at 2–4% • How RWAs are reshaping on-chain liquidity • The missing link between tokenization and real markets • 3F’s approach to unlocking capital efficiency 📅 April 30 🕚 11PM UTC+8 | 4PM CET | 10AM EST Live on X, replay on YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify. Stay tuned!

Mark your calendars for Oct 6! Right after Solana Summit Korea (Sep 30), Solana Summit Singapore takes the stage. 🇰🇷 Check how Korea’s next wave is already shipping on @solana 's AI and RWA stack.👇 @botanika_sol is building AI infrastructure you can actually own, native hardware paired with RWA-backed data storage, so compute and storage aren’t just rented from the cloud. @vezta_io turns prediction markets into a single trading flow, bundling venues into one basket and one click. @YumiFinance is issuing onchain debt instruments for the teams building robotics and AI, underwriting the work instead of waiting for traditional credit. @RewardyJapan is the consumer layer: a wallet where 1M+ users earn rewards and spend crypto like cash. And @idolly_AI lets fans create and collect their own AI idols on Solana. Different products. Different bets. Same ecosystem. Catch them at @SolanaSummitOrg on Oct 6 in SG 🫡