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@Solana is not the biggest RWA vault. It is the busiest RWA market.
The chain only holds ~12% of onchain RWA market cap, but it already does 32% of all RWA spot volume and 47% of every RWA trade.
That’s $14.7B of the $46B traded across chains + 42.6M of 91M trades over the last 12 months.
the gap between 12% of assets and 32% of volume is the whole Solana thesis here: capital doesn’t just sit, it moves.
Solana traders point to that:
– 374K RWA traders averaging 114 trades each
– median trade is only $29
– 20% of RWA-owning wallets
– average position is ~$14K vs $27K elsewhere → ~1.8x more owners per dollar of assets
The deeper insight is there are two different RWA economies forming on the same chain.
1/ Institutional side
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@BlackRock has $741M BUIDL on Solana, 27% of the whole BUIDL fund (4x in 2026)
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@Securitize has another $252M of fixed income
– Ctrl Alt carries ~$701M of private-fund assets
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@onrefinance’s tokenized reinsurance fund went 3x this year to $269M
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@humafinance’s PayFi strategy grew from $139M in January to $217M, +56%
Solana now does 74% of all onchain fixed-income volume, mostly because Maple did $4.0B and Hastra another $1.4B.
2/ Retail side
Equities are where the GTM starts getting really interesting.
– tokenized stocks/ETFs are now 56% of all Solana RWA volume
– Solana captures 31% of global tokenized-equity spot volume
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@xStocksFi did $5B volume with 274K wallet-product holdings
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@Backpack did $1.5B in its first two months after launching
The cleanest proof that putting these assets onchain is creating a different market.
– 63% of Solana tokenized-equity volume happens while US exchanges are closed.
– 17% happens on weekends.
Wallet-product holdings across Solana RWAs are now 5x higher than a year ago, and tokenized stocks generated 98% of the growth since April.
I’m starting to think all the stock-paired memes, launchpads and trench activity around Solana RWAs are less of a distraction than they look.
@LaunchOnSF contributed $43M RWA volume to the trenches.
The weak point is concentration rn. Five issuers generate ~90% of Solana RWA volume.
But maybe that’s exactly what an early market is supposed to look like.
First a few products prove ppl actually want to trade RWAs onchain, then exchanges, launchpads, lending, collateral, perps, stock-paired memes and 24/7 markets start composing around them.