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Plenty of people feel strongly about the tokenization/RWA space that appears poised to one day transform financial services — even if that change takes years to play out. 

A bunch of those takes were expressed during day one of the RWA Summit in Brooklyn on Tuesday, as the promises and projections for the segment were both touted and questioned.

RWA, if you forgot, is short for real-world assets. In this context, it refers to the efforts to bring tokenized versions of such assets — from bonds to real estate — onto blockchains.

We have seen some big projections, with Standard Chartered, for…

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