Tokenized RWAs face critical data gap as offchain inputs drive onchain logic, exposing private credit to systemic risk

$23B in tokenized RWAs and the oracle layer is still bootstrapping — Securitize's TSSO with RedStone basically concedes that private credit has no decentralized price discovery, so instead of pretending to aggregate nonexistent market data, they're just making the fund admin's NAV cryptographically verifiable. Honest framing, but it means billions in BUIDL and ACRED collateral ultimately depend on a single authoritative source with AI anomaly detection as the last line of defense before irreversible liquidation cascades. DeFi spent years decentralizing price feeds for liquid assets, and now the fastest-growing RWA vertical is re-centralizing them by necessity — the question is whether "verifiable but centralized" is good enough when one stale NAV report at a 50% discount can spill milk that nobody can put back in the bottle.

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