The first time I tried to verify on-chain a so-called USD with real assets backing it, I was stuck in front of the browser for a long time. One tab shows the price, another shows the circulating supply, and there's a page with a "fully backed" label. Staring at the screen, my eyes ached, but I had an inexplicable sense of unease—like having locked the door but still feeling the need to turn the doorknob again before leaving to feel at ease. This feeling is roughly what the current issues with real-world assets (RWA) bring to the entire market.
The logic of RWA isn't actually complicated. It involves packaging real-world assets—gold, government bonds, corporate bonds—into on-chain tokens, allowing them to circulate on the blockchain. Sounds good, and indeed transaction speeds have increased. The problem is, while tokens transfer instantly on-chain, the physical assets behind them might still be quietly lying in a vault somewhere. So, the real key isn't whether they can be traded, but whether these assets can truly be verified to exist.
Many industry insiders get confused at this point—not because they fear market risks, but because they are puzzled about how to verify. Once people start to be confused, it's easy to make impulsive decisions.
It is precisely because of this gray area of information ambiguity that new projects see opportunities. Falcon Finance was born in such an environment. Its design concept is to allow users to use various assets as collateral to mint stablecoins…
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GateUser-e19e9c10
· 11h ago
Fully backed, do you really believe that? Anyway, I didn't see any real assets; it's all just a numbers game.
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fren.eth
· 11h ago
Staring at the screen for a long time still doesn't dare to make a move, it feels ridiculous. Fully backed my ass, who will verify it?
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BearMarketMonk
· 11h ago
The part about locking the door and having to turn back to pull the handle really hit home. This is the core of RWA now—information asymmetry is the soil for survival.
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ParanoiaKing
· 11h ago
Basically, it's just that you can't see through it. The words "fully backed" now sound just like empty talk.
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OldLeekConfession
· 11h ago
It's the same fully backed trick again. I just want to know who actually verified that vault.
The first time I tried to verify on-chain a so-called USD with real assets backing it, I was stuck in front of the browser for a long time. One tab shows the price, another shows the circulating supply, and there's a page with a "fully backed" label. Staring at the screen, my eyes ached, but I had an inexplicable sense of unease—like having locked the door but still feeling the need to turn the doorknob again before leaving to feel at ease. This feeling is roughly what the current issues with real-world assets (RWA) bring to the entire market.
The logic of RWA isn't actually complicated. It involves packaging real-world assets—gold, government bonds, corporate bonds—into on-chain tokens, allowing them to circulate on the blockchain. Sounds good, and indeed transaction speeds have increased. The problem is, while tokens transfer instantly on-chain, the physical assets behind them might still be quietly lying in a vault somewhere. So, the real key isn't whether they can be traded, but whether these assets can truly be verified to exist.
Many industry insiders get confused at this point—not because they fear market risks, but because they are puzzled about how to verify. Once people start to be confused, it's easy to make impulsive decisions.
It is precisely because of this gray area of information ambiguity that new projects see opportunities. Falcon Finance was born in such an environment. Its design concept is to allow users to use various assets as collateral to mint stablecoins…