{"id":398630,"date":"2025-07-16T03:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/solana-rwa-growth-outpaces-ethereum-in-2025-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T04:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:31:18","slug":"solana-rwa-growth-outpaces-ethereum-in-2025-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/solana-rwa-growth-outpaces-ethereum-in-2025-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana RWA Growth Outpaces Ethereum in 2025 &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The fastest growing niche in DeFi is taking over both Ethereum and Solana.\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tokenized real-world asset (RWA) growth on Solana is outpacing growth on Ethereum this year, with the Solana RWA value increasing by more than 200% year-to-date, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/app.rwa.xyz\/\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">RWAxyz<\/a> data.<\/p>\n<p>RWAs are one of this market cycle\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/research-and-opinion\/tokenized-real-world-assets-surge-260-in-2025\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">breakout sectors<\/a>, with the total value of on-chain RWAs surging by 196% since January 2024, from $8.6 billion to $25.5 billion today. <\/p>\n<p>In terms of distribution by network, Ethereum commands a lion\u2019s share of the market, with over $7.7 billion of the $13.5 billion in tokenized RWAs that exist on public networks.<\/p>\n<p>At $553.8 million, the value of Solana RWAs is much smaller than total RWA value on Ethereum, but the gap is closing \u2014 Solana RWA value has increased 218% so far this year and 22% in the past month, up from $173.8 million in January. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ethereum\u2019s RWA value is up 81% YTD to $7.7 billion from $4.3 billion at the start of the year. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Solana RWA value. Source: RWA.xyz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Messari&#8217;s State of Solana <\/h2>\n<p>Crypto research firm Messari published a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/messari.io\/report\/state-of-solana-real-world-assets?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=organic_social&#038;utm_campaign=q1_quarterlies&#038;destination=protocol_services_research\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">report<\/a> this week with similar findings, citing a 140.6% increase in 2025 to a $418.1 million in RWA value on Solana.<\/p>\n<p>The difference in data reporting from RWAxyz and Messari likely stems from RWAxyz\u2019s inclusion of ONyc, a reinsurance underwriting pool backed by Ethena\u2019s sUSDe, which is responsible for the approximately $100 million difference in reported RWA value.<\/p>\n<p>Messari\u2019s report states that \u201cYield-bearing RWAs are the most significant and fastest-growing segment in Solana\u2019s RWA landscape,\u201d led by tokenized treasuries such as OUSG and USDY from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/defi\/ondo-finance-tvl-surpasses-usd1-billion-becoming-largest-rwa-platform\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Ondo Finance<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ondo\u2019s dual token system leverages Blackrock\u2019s BUIDL, a tokenized Treasury money market fund, as the backbone for OUSG, and USDY is the ecosystem\u2019s Treasury-backed, yield-bearing stablecoin. The two assets boast an aggregated valuation of $248 million, making up about 60% of the total Solana RWA market when excluding ONyc.<\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"the-defiant\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"901\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1600 901'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/jpeg;base64,\/9j\/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcUFhYaHSUfGhsjHBYWICwgIyYnKSopGR8tMC0oMCUoKSj\/2wBDAQcHBwoIChMKChMoGhYaKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj\/wAARCAAGAAoDASIAAhEBAxEB\/8QAFgABAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMH\/8QAGRABAAMBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQACAxES\/8QAFAEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA\/\/EABYRAQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABIf\/aAAwDAQACEQMRAD8Awy2hiVqnok169iI4Jr\/\/2Q=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E\")\" srcset=\"\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fad_4nxclfkcru_a1ibrjtityvsqipxz_dzftwnd65ejxshx3uabbs-wms9zd-b6edb8f7-8e71-4cc7-8884-dadefeeec18d.png&#038;w=1920&#038;q=100 1x, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fad_4nxclfkcru_a1ibrjtityvsqipxz_dzftwnd65ejxshx3uabbs-wms9zd-b6edb8f7-8e71-4cc7-8884-dadefeeec18d.png&#038;w=3840&#038;q=100 2x\" src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fad_4nxclfkcru_a1ibrjtityvsqipxz_dzftwnd65ejxshx3uabbs-wms9zd-b6edb8f7-8e71-4cc7-8884-dadefeeec18d.png&#038;w=3840&#038;q=100\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Solana RWA Market Map. Source: Messari <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BUIDL\u2019s tokenized U.S. Treasuries fund is the largest tokenized RWA overall, with a market capitalization of $2.8 billion, most of which is on Ethereum. However, most of the RWA value on both Ethereum and Solana \u2014 over 90% \u2014 come from stablecoins, per RWAxyz data. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fastest growing niche in DeFi is taking over both Ethereum and Solana. Tokenized real-world asset (RWA) growth on Solana is outpacing growth on Ethereum this year, with the Solana RWA value increasing by more than 200% year-to-date, per RWAxyz data. RWAs are one of this market cycle\u2019s breakout sectors, with the total value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-398630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398632,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398630\/revisions\/398632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}