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

Real World Assets (RWA) serve as an important link between traditional finance and encryption, and are gradually becoming the focus of market attention. However, the current RWA market still faces many challenges: inefficiency, high costs, and the connection between traditional financial systems and on-chain ecosystems is not smooth, with bottlenecks in further development needing to be broken.

To address this issue, a fully integrated and modular chain focused on RWAfi has emerged. As the first truly 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 market for RWA, redefining finance to be as versatile as native encryption assets.

Financing in the tens of millions, deploying assets over 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 this platform, with a cumulative deployed asset exceeding $1 billion, and hundreds of millions in assets are set 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 demonstrating the vibrancy of the ecosystem and the enthusiasm of user participation.

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

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

On December 18th, the project announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing (with total financing reaching $30 million), with participants in this round including several well-known investment institutions and the digital asset departments of traditional financial institutions.

A blockchain ecosystem designed for RWA based on the DeFi concept

Although there are already many Layer 1s in the industry, and new projects continuously entering this field 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, this project realized the need to create a blockchain specifically designed for RWA, and to achieve its goal by embedding more customization and functionality at the network level.

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

The project's modular infrastructure is designed to support the tokenization and management of real-world assets, with its core components 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 multiple asset classes, ensuring compliance, and facilitating data integration.

The project focuses on accelerating the on-chain of real-world assets, liquidity, and regulatory compliance in its core functions, providing a comprehensive framework that covers liquidity management, built-in anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, and data access capabilities.

The project leverages a network of compliant partners to achieve regulatory verification of tokenized assets, ensuring that transactions comply with relevant regulatory requirements. It simplifies the regulatory compliance process and user registration process by adopting an approach that integrates compliance directly into the platform. With the integrated compliance features, users can confidently participate in RWAfi transactions, accessing a broader range of opportunities online, provided they meet 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 functionality enhances 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, Key Services for Native Encryption Users

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

The project believes that to truly drive the growth of RWA, it is essential to first focus on the needs of on-chain users. Its RWAfi concept not only aims to bring RWAs on-chain but also to create products that are tailored to users' understanding and acceptance by following what they are already doing, while integrating the traditional and encryption-native worlds. This is because on-chain users are typically the most vibrant and innovative when exploring RWAfi application scenarios and have a strong demand for real yields, liquidity, and composability. Essentially, the project meets these needs in a manner similar to DeFi, aligning products with the market. On the surface, users are engaging with decentralized financial products, but behind them are real-world assets that can generate actual yields.

As an open and permissionless chain, this project 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 been attracted to this project, these assets cover a variety of categories. Currently, the project's asset categories can generally be divided into three types: collectibles, alternative assets, and financial instruments. Collectibles include wine, artworks, watches, sneakers, and Pokémon cards; alternative assets mainly consist of private credit, real estate, or green energy projects; 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 starting point of benefiting existing on-chain users, this project will also focus on the three most important use cases for encryption users. The first category is yield farming, which focuses on earning returns through methods such as depositing funds and cyclical operations, while achieving efficiency and convenience in operations. The second category is trading, including 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 introducing real users into the existing market to expand the use cases of the encryption ecosystem and RWAs. For example, the project collaborates with RWA projects in the renewable solar energy sector to provide 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 development projects for public school districts. The project states, "These projects have 100% contracted revenue, and the costs are predictable." According to the statement, both teams believe that the school district's commitment to these development projects reduces the overall risk of the tokenized projects, with expected returns between 9% and 18%.

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

Looking ahead, this project, which is about to officially launch its mainnet, will technically enhance the scalability and security of its infrastructure 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 also positions this project as an important bridge in promoting the development of RWAfi.