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US Treasury bills hold about a third of the $46.2bn tokenized asset market

RWA.xyz's count puts US T-bills at $15bn of a $46.2bn total and five assets at about 70% of it. Other trackers stop at $38bn, so the Treasury share of onchain finance moves seven points on the choice of tracker.

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Illustration accompanying US Treasury bills hold about a third of the $46.2bn tokenized asset market

What happened

  • Onchain value in tokenized real-world assets has crossed $46.2bn, with US Treasury bills the largest single slice at roughly $15bn.
  • Ethereum still hosts the most tokenized value at around $17.3bn, and Stellar has moved into third place at about $3.3bn after adding $149.4m in 30 days.
  • Trackers size the category anywhere between $38bn and $46.2bn, with the higher figure coming from RWA.xyz data captured by NullTX.

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Why it matters

  • contradiction How dominant government debt looks depends on which tracker an allocator quotes: the same $15bn is 39.5% of the low count and 32.5% of the high one.
  • exposure An allocator buying the category at these weights is buying short-dated US government debt, and 37.4% of the value settles on a single chain.
  • capability Stellar's euro-denominated money market holdings make onchain money market collateral available to institutions that do not want dollar exposure.

Divide the $15bn Treasury slice by the $46.2bn total and government debt is 32.5% of tokenized real-world assets [2][1][1]. About $31.2bn sits in everything else [3]. Five assets at roughly 70% of that same total comes to about $32.3bn held in five products, against roughly $13.9bn spread across the entire remainder of the category [3][2]. Cryptobriefing does not name the five, so how much of the $15bn Treasury figure sits inside that $32.3bn cannot be worked out from the published numbers [15].

The chain split is more lopsided than the asset split. Ethereum's roughly $17.3bn is 37.4% of the total and Stellar's $3.3bn is 7.1% [4][5][4][5]. Stellar's $149.4m of 30-day growth came off a starting base of about $3.15bn, which is 4.7% in a month, and twelve of those months compound to about 74% [6][6]. BNB Chain and Solana are the other two chains the report counts as carrying meaningful RWA value [7].

Now the denominator. The low and high counts are $8.2bn apart, which is 55% of the whole Treasury slice, and the T-bill share moves from 39.5% to 32.5% depending on which total you divide into [7][8]. The gap comes down to whether a tracker excludes stablecoin-adjacent products or uses a narrower definition of a tokenized real-world asset [9].

The issuers Cryptobriefing names are BlackRock's BUIDL fund, Franklin Templeton's BENJI tokens and Ondo Finance's USDY, all channelling money into onchain Treasuries and money market instruments [10]. Stellar's holdings lean toward euro as well as dollar money market products [11]. MoneyGram has launched a stablecoin-backed Visa card on the network, and Zebec has built payroll that runs on it [12].

In my view the 70% constrains this sector more than the Treasury share flatters it, because a market where five products hold about $32.3bn grows and shrinks with five issuers' subscription books [3][2]. The counter, which Cryptobriefing itself makes, is that a small set of large institutional-grade products is what an early regulated sector looks like, and that clearer rules through 2026 have made the compliance burden on issuers more predictable [14][13]. Two numbers would separate those readings over the next year. If trackers converge on one total and the Treasury share rises while the top-five share falls, the category is broadening inside government debt and the concentration figure was a snapshot.

What to watch

  • Whether the trackers converge on one total, which would end the $8.2bn definitional gap between the $38bn and $46.2bn counts.
  • Whether the top-five share falls below 70% while the Treasury slice keeps growing, the sign of broadening inside government debt.
  • Whether Stellar holds a 4.7% monthly growth rate past the single 30-day window the report measured.
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