RWAfi Ecological New Star: Plume Network Creates Innovative Platform for Encryption Native Users

Real World Assets (RWA) are gradually becoming the focal point of market attention as an important link between traditional finance and encryption. However, the current RWA market still faces numerous challenges, such as inefficiency and high costs, and the integration between the traditional financial system and the on-chain ecosystem urgently needs improvement.

To address these issues, a fully integrated and modular chain focused on RWAfi has emerged. As the first truly RWA public chain serving encryption native users, this platform is dedicated to providing more efficient, transparent, and convenient solutions by creating a dynamic, liquid, and composable market to redefine finance, making RWA as multifunctional as native encryption assets.

Rapid development, asset scale exceeds one billion

After nearly a year of rapid development, the network has been recognized by the community, institutions, emerging banks, and encryption native protocols (such as lending protocols, perpetual contract DEXs, AMMs, etc.) as the best solution for RWAfi. Currently, over 180 projects have been built on the platform, with total deployed assets exceeding $1 billion, and hundreds of millions of assets are about to go on-chain. During a two-month testing activity, the platform also achieved significant results: the number of active wallets surpassed 3.75 million, and the on-chain transaction volume exceeded 270 million, fully showcasing the vibrancy of the ecosystem and the enthusiasm of user participation.

In November, the platform held a pre-deposit event with an initial target of $5 million, which was quickly filled in just 70 seconds, exceeding expectations. In response to the huge demand from the community, the platform promptly raised the cap to $30 million, and ultimately exceeded the target in just 90 minutes, with oversubscription reaching 6 times the original plan.

The growth potential of this platform has also been recognized by several well-known VCs, with a total of $30 million in funding completed to date. In May of this year, the platform announced the completion of $10 million in seed funding. This round of financing has laid a solid foundation for the platform's innovation and expansion in the RWAfi field.

On December 18, the platform announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing (total raise of 30M).

A blockchain ecosystem designed for RWA, leveraging DeFi principles

Although there is no shortage of Layer 1 in the industry, and new projects continually entering the space make competition increasingly fierce. However, due to the customized needs for permission management, compliance, and liquidity in the series of operations of real-world assets on the chain, the platform realizes the need to create a blockchain specifically designed for RWA, and aims to achieve this goal by embedding more customization and functionality at the network level.

Unlike traditional RWA models, this platform aims to create a more efficient and accessible ecosystem for encryption users and traditional financial institutions by leveraging DeFi principles, making it the first and only protocol focused on RWAfi. RWAfi is a new model in the blockchain finance sector, meaning that tokenized RWAs can be composed and flexible like native encryption assets. Based on the concept of adopting encryption natively, the platform prioritizes composability, liquidity, permissionlessness, and interoperability from the perspective of building what encryption users truly need, designing products and business around RWAfi.

The platform's modular infrastructure is designed to support the tokenization and management of real-world assets, with the core components of its architecture being the tokenization engine Arc, smart wallets, and the on-chain data highway Nexus. Through the collaborative work of these components, the platform provides a smooth and secure environment for managing various asset classes, ensuring compliance, and facilitating data integration.

In terms of core functions, this platform focuses on accelerating the on-chain of real-world assets, liquidity, and regulatory compliance, providing a comprehensive framework that includes liquidity management, built-in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, and data access capabilities.

The platform utilizes a network of compliant partners to achieve regulatory verification of tokenized assets, ensuring that transactions comply with relevant regulatory requirements. By adopting a method that integrates compliance directly into the platform, the regulatory compliance process and user registration process have been simplified. With the integrated compliance features, users can confidently participate in RWAfi transactions, accessing a broader range of opportunities online while meeting the necessary legal standards.

In terms of critical asset liquidity and market efficiency, the platform promotes liquidity development by collaborating with trusted liquidity providers and deploying yield enhancement mechanisms. Its trading features enhance the liquidity options of RWA tokens through staking, yield farming, and integration with DeFi protocols, supporting market activities. This allows users to participate in asset trading by reducing slippage and increasing asset stability, while taking advantage of liquidity and yield opportunities in the RWA market.

Focus on real returns, prioritize serving encryption native users

As a special area at the intersection of blockchain technology and traditional assets, the immense potential of RWA comes from the traditional financial industry. Perhaps based on this, most RWA projects are currently led by individuals with a traditional financial (TradFi) background, who attempt to bring traditional financial products onto the blockchain. However, the mainstream users on the blockchain tend to be more encryption-native rather than traditional financial users, making it difficult for most products to find a market fit.

The platform believes that in order to truly drive the growth of RWAs, it is essential to first focus on the needs of on-chain users. Its RWAfi concept is not only about bringing RWAs on-chain but also about creating products that are tailored to be easily understood and accepted by users while incorporating both traditional and encryption-native worlds. This is because on-chain users are often the most vibrant and innovative when exploring RWAfi application scenarios, and they have a strong demand for real yields, liquidity, and composability. Essentially, the platform meets these needs in a manner similar to DeFi, aligning products with market demands. Users are superficially interacting with decentralized financial products, but behind them are real-world assets that can deliver actual yields.

As an open, permissionless chain, this platform provides an easy-to-use, compliant, and efficient asset onboarding tool, allowing anyone to freely build and drive development without restrictions. Among the hundreds of protocols that have attracted the platform so far, these assets cover a variety of categories. Currently, the platform's asset categories can be broadly divided into three types: collectibles, alternative assets, and financial instruments. Collectibles include wine, artwork, watches, sneakers, and Pokémon cards; alternative assets mainly consist of private credit, real estate, or green energy projects; and financial instruments are primarily stocks or corporate bonds.

However, for the vast majority of encryption users, the category of the assets themselves is not important; their use and potential returns are the focus. Therefore, based on the principle of benefiting existing on-chain users, the platform also focuses on the three most important use cases for encryption users. The first type is yield farming, which centers on earning returns through methods such as depositing funds and cyclical operations, while achieving efficiency and convenience in operations. The second type is trading, which includes buying and selling, lending, and traditional spot trading. The third type is speculation, mainly involving derivatives and other similar high-risk investment operations. The platform focuses on assets and application scenarios related to these protocols, making them more aligned with the actual needs of encryption users.

The platform focuses on bringing real returns through income-generating assets and introducing real users from existing markets to expand the encryption ecosystem and the use cases of RWAs. For example, the platform provides users with the opportunity to earn returns from solar energy assets valued at $100 million by collaborating with RWA projects in the renewable solar energy sector. This project tokenizes the "leverage of commercial solar construction loans and post-operational assets," which will serve the development projects of public school districts. The platform stated, "These projects have 100% contracted revenue and predictable costs." According to the statement, both teams believe that the commitment of the school districts to these development projects reduces the overall risk of the tokenization project, with expected returns ranging from 9% to 18%.

In addition to emphasizing on-chain user needs, the platform also serves traditional financial institutions and is able to address major challenges in compliance and liquidity when promoting institutional adoption. This dual-service strategy positions it to achieve innovation and breakthroughs in the RWAfi space, catering to the different core needs of encryption-native users and traditional financial institutions.

Looking to the future, the platform that is about to officially launch its mainnet will further enhance the scalability and security of its infrastructure based on the existing foundation, and will further integrate to improve data privacy; in terms of ecological development and RWA expansion, there is no doubt that it will add more asset classes, including tokenized luxury goods, stocks, and new forms of commodities; in addition, by expanding cooperation with financial institutions, the platform will make it easier for institutional investors to access tokenized RWA. This strategic positioning not only promotes the connection between the encryption world and traditional finance but will also make the platform an important bridge for driving the development of RWAfi.