RWAfi Ecological New Star: Plume Network Built 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: low efficiency, high costs, and insufficient smoothness in the connection between the traditional financial system and the on-chain ecosystem, with bottlenecks in further development needing to be broken through.

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 make it as versatile as native encryption assets.

Funding 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 the platform, with a total deployed asset exceeding $1 billion, and hundreds of millions in assets are about to go on-chain. During the two-month testing activity, the project 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 vitality 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 enormous demand from the community, the cap was raised to 30 million USD, and ultimately the target was exceeded and completed rapidly within 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, having raised a total of 30 million USD so far. In May of this year, it was announced that a seed round financing of 10 million USD was completed, with participation from several well-known investment institutions. This round of financing has laid a solid foundation for the project's innovation and expansion in the RWAfi field.

On December 18, it was announced that they have completed a $20 million Series A financing, bringing the total financing amount to $30 million. The investors in this round of financing include several well-known investment institutions and financial technology companies.

A blockchain ecosystem designed for RWA, leveraging DeFi principles

Although there are already many Layer 1 projects in the industry, new projects entering the space from time to time make the competition increasingly intense. 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 create a blockchain specifically designed for RWA, and to achieve the goal concept 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 cryptocurrency 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 space, meaning that tokenized RWAs can be composable and flexible like native crypto assets. Based on the idea of adopting encryption natively and starting from the perspective of building what crypto users truly need, the focus is on composability, liquidity, permissionlessness, and interoperability, with products and services designed around RWAfi.

The project's modular infrastructure is specifically 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, it provides a smooth and secure environment for managing multiple asset classes, ensuring compliance, and facilitating data integration.

In terms of core functionality, the project focuses on accelerating the on-chain 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 leverages a network of compliant partners to achieve regulatory verification of tokenized assets, ensuring that transactions comply with relevant regulatory requirements. By adopting a method that directly integrates compliance into the platform, it simplifies the regulatory compliance process and the user registration process. 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 taking advantage of liquidity and yield opportunities in the RWA market.

Focus on real returns, with a focus on serving encryption native users

As a special area at the intersection of blockchain technology and traditional assets, the immense potential of RWA originates from the traditional financial industry. Perhaps based on this, most RWA projects are currently led by individuals with a background in traditional finance (TradFi), 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 drive the growth of RWAs, it is essential to first focus on the needs of on-chain users. Its RWAfi concept is not only about bringing RWAs on-chain, but also about creating products that are easy for users to understand and accept by adhering to what they are already doing while integrating traditional and encryption-native worlds. This is because on-chain users are often the most dynamic and innovative when exploring RWAfi application scenarios, with 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. Users are superficially engaging with decentralized financial products, but behind them are real-world assets that can generate actual returns.

As an open, permissionless chain, this project provides an easy-to-use, compliant, and efficient asset on-chain tool, allowing anyone to freely build and drive development without restrictions. Among the hundreds of protocols that have attracted attention so far, these assets cover a variety of categories. Currently, the asset categories can broadly 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; while 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 goal 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 centers on earning returns through methods such as depositing funds and circular operations while achieving efficiency and convenience in operations. The second category is trading, which includes buying and selling, lending, and traditional spot trading activities. The third category is speculation, primarily 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 from the existing market to expand the use cases of the encryption ecosystem and RWAs. For example, by collaborating with RWA projects in the renewable solar energy sector, users are provided with the opportunity to earn returns from solar assets valued at $100 million. This RWA project tokenizes the "leverage of commercial solar construction loans and post-operation assets," which will serve the development projects of public school districts. It is claimed that "these projects have 100% contracted revenue and predictable costs." According to the statement, both teams believe that the commitment of the school districts to these development projects reduces the overall risk of the tokenized project, with expected yields between 9% and 18%.

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

Looking to the future, the project is about to officially launch its mainnet, which will technically enhance the scalability and security of its infrastructure further based on the existing foundation, and further integrate to improve data privacy; in terms of ecological development and RWA expansion, there is no doubt that more asset classes will be added, including tokenized luxury goods, stocks, and new forms of commodities; in addition, expanding cooperation with financial institutions will make it easier for institutional investors to access tokenized RWA. This strategic positioning not only promotes the connection between the encryption world and traditional finance but will also make the project an important bridge for advancing RWAfi development.