Venturebloxx names Centrifuge the backbone of a $29.4B RWA market that’s surged 488% in three years, powering $1.1B+ AUM and driving institutional adoption across DeFi and private credit.

Venturebloxx reports that Centrifuge has become a core infrastructure provider in the rapidly expanding real-world asset (RWA) segment of decentralized finance, which it says has grown 488% over the past three years to a $29.4 billion market. According to the piece, Centrifuge’s on-chain credit and tokenization rails underpin more than $1.1 billion in assets under management (AUM), with pools spanning private credit, trade finance, real estate, and other yield-bearing off-chain assets brought onto public blockchains. The article frames Centrifuge as a backbone layer for institutional engagement with RWAs, highlighting how its protocol, legal structuring, and integrations with major DeFi platforms enable funds, asset managers, and fintech lenders to originate and finance real-world credit on-chain. It emphasizes the role of Centrifuge-style tokenization in bridging traditional private credit markets and DeFi liquidity, arguing that compliant, asset-backed yield products are becoming an important driver of institutional adoption in crypto, particularly as demand grows for transparent, on-chain fixed‑income alternatives to purely speculative tokens.

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