Pioneer of the RWAfi Ecosystem: Plume Network Creates a New Experience for Encryption Native Users

Real World Assets (RWA) are gradually becoming the focus of market attention as an important link between traditional finance and encryption. However, the current RWA market still faces many challenges: inefficiency, high costs, and a lack of smooth connection between the traditional financial system and the on-chain ecosystem, with bottlenecks in further development urgently needing to be overcome.

To solve this problem, a fully integrated and modular chain focused on RWAfi has emerged. As the first truly RWA public chain serving encryption native users, this project is committed to providing more efficient, transparent, and convenient solutions by creating a dynamic, liquid, and composable RWA market to redefine finance, making it as versatile as native encryption assets.

Rapid development, asset scale exceeds one billion

After nearly a year of rapid development, this project 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 this platform, with a cumulative deployed asset of over $1 billion, and hundreds of millions of assets are about to be put on-chain. During a two-month testing activity, the project also achieved significant results: the number of active wallets exceeded 3.75 million, and the on-chain transaction volume surpassed 270 million, fully demonstrating the vitality of the ecosystem and the enthusiasm of user participation.

In November of last year, the project held a pre-storage event with an initial target of $5 million, which was quickly filled within 70 seconds, exceeding expectations. In response to the huge demand from the community, the project team immediately raised the cap to $30 million, ultimately exceeding the target in 90 minutes, with oversubscription reaching 6 times the original plan.

The growth potential of this project has also been recognized by several well-known VCs, with a total of 30 million USD raised so far. In May of last year, the project team announced the completion of a 10 million USD seed round of financing, with participation from several prominent investment institutions. This round of financing has laid a solid foundation for the project's innovation and expansion in the RWAfi field.

On December 18th last year, the project party announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing (with a total financing amount of $30 million). The investors in this round of financing include several internationally renowned investment institutions and fintech companies.

A blockchain ecosystem designed specifically for RWA, leveraging the principles of DeFi.

Although there are already many Layer 1s in the industry, and new projects entering this field from time to time make the 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-chain, the project realizes the need to build a blockchain specifically designed for RWA, and to achieve its vision by embedding more customization and functionality at the network level.

Unlike traditional RWA models, this project 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 as composable and flexible as native encryption assets. Based on the concept of adopting encryption natively, this project prioritizes composability, liquidity, permissionlessness, and interoperability, designing products and services around RWAfi from the perspective of building what encryption users truly need.

The project'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, smart wallet, and on-chain data highway. Through the collaborative work of these components, a smooth and secure environment is provided for managing a variety of asset classes, ensuring compliance, and facilitating data integration.

In terms of core functionality, the project focuses on accelerating the on-chain process 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 project utilizes a network of compliant partners to achieve compliance verification of tokenized assets, ensuring that transactions meet relevant regulatory requirements. It simplifies the regulatory compliance process and user registration process by directly integrating compliance into the platform. 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 key asset liquidity and market efficiency, the project promotes liquidity development by collaborating with trusted liquidity providers and deploying yield enhancement mechanisms. Its trading functions 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 leveraging liquidity and yield opportunities in the RWA market.

Focus on real returns,重点服务 encryption native users

As a special area at the intersection of blockchain technology and traditional assets, the enormous potential of RWA comes from the traditional financial industry. Perhaps based on this point, 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, 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 project believes that in order to truly promote the growth of RWAs, it is essential to first focus on the needs of on-chain users. The concept of RWAfi not only involves bringing RWAs on-chain, but also following what users are already doing when integrating the traditional and encryption native worlds, creating products that are easy for them to understand and accept. This is because on-chain users are typically the most active and innovative when exploring RWAfi application scenarios, and they have a strong demand for real returns, liquidity, and composability. Essentially, the project aims to meet these needs in a manner similar to DeFi, aligning products with the market. What users encounter on the surface are decentralized financial products, but behind them are real-world assets that can provide actual returns.

As an open, permissionless chain, this project offers 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 been attracted so far, these assets cover a variety of categories. Currently, the project's asset categories can be broadly divided into three types: collectibles, alternative assets, and financial instruments. Collectibles include wine, art, 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 asset itself is not important; its usage and potential returns are the focus. Therefore, based on the goal of benefiting existing on-chain users, this project will also focus its work on the three most important use cases for encryption users. The first category is yield farming, which centers on earning returns through methods such as depositing funds and performing cyclical operations, while achieving efficiency and convenience in operations. The second category is trading, which includes buying and selling, lending, and traditional spot trading. The third category is speculation, mainly involving derivatives and other similar high-risk investment operations. This project focuses on assets and application scenarios related to these protocols, making them more aligned with the actual needs of encryption users.

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

In addition to emphasizing on-chain user needs, the project also serves traditional financial institutions and can address major challenges in compliance and liquidity in promoting institutional adoption. This dual-service strategy positions it to achieve innovation and breakthroughs in the RWAfi field, meeting the different core needs of crypto-native users and traditional financial institutions.

Looking to the future, this project, which is about to officially launch its mainnet, will technically further enhance the scalability and security of its infrastructure based on the existing foundation, and further integrate to improve data privacy; in terms of ecological development and RWA expansion, it will undoubtedly add more asset classes, including tokenized luxury goods, stocks, and new forms of commodities; in addition, by expanding cooperation with financial institutions, it will make it easier for institutional investors to access tokenized RWA. This strategic positioning not only facilitates the connection between the encryption world and traditional finance but will also make this project an important bridge in promoting the development of RWAfi.