In the crypto market, every day unfolds two completely different survival stories.
Some hunt for Alpha opportunities like hunters—spending 50 USDT to buy US stock tokens just for 5 points of rewards, or scrutinizing the next airdrop project with microscopic precision, timing their exits to two decimal places under various labels. Repeated calculations between $0.01 and $0.03, this is the entire game. Essentially, it’s a brutal arbitrage of information, speed, and liquidity—a classic zero-sum game.
On the other side, volatility is everywhere. A tweet gets deleted, or a decision by a core team member is made, and your assets can ride a roller coaster. In this highly uncertain environment, most people are fragmented, constantly caught in high-frequency, low-yield consumption battles.
But while this ground-level skirmish continues, the real changes that will define the next decade are quietly being laid out from above. This isn’t about winning more chips at the existing gambling table, but about a complete shift in gameplay—directly controlling the casino itself, then building a high-speed road to the real gold mine.
Simply put, it’s about bringing the trillions of dollars in traditional finance—those stable assets and cash flows backed by national credit and the real economy—into the crypto world on a large scale and in compliance. This is called RWA (Real World Assets), a true dimensionality reduction strike.
You can see this blueprint gradually coming to life. Take protocols like Lista DAO, for example. It evolved from a purely on-chain lending market into a bridge connecting RWA. What does this mean? It means your wealth management approach might be completely rewritten. No longer chasing a few percentage points of daily volatility, but accessing stable yields backed by real assets. This is the real game-changer.
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OnlyOnMainnet
· 01-25 10:49
Haha, really, every day people are exhausting themselves over a few points, and I increasingly can't understand it.
RWA is actually somewhat interesting, but I don't know to what extent it can truly be implemented.
It sounds good, but in the end, it's still a matter of speed and information advantage.
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DaoResearcher
· 01-25 02:20
From a Tokenomics perspective, the zero-sum game assumption in this article holds within a 95% confidence interval, but the sustainability of the RWA narrative requires further on-chain data validation.
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GateUser-a5fa8bd0
· 01-22 11:30
To be honest, this wave of RWA narratives indeed sounds different, but what will happen when it actually gets implemented?
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bridge_anxiety
· 01-22 11:29
Well said, but I still think most people won't even wait for that "next ten years," and they'll be cut so badly that there's nothing left of their pants.
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CountdownToBroke
· 01-22 11:19
Well said, finally someone has broken through this barrier. Chasing those few points every day is indeed pointless.
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GateUser-ccc36bc5
· 01-22 11:19
RWA is the true endgame of this game; those still floundering at low levels are just cannon fodder.
In the crypto market, every day unfolds two completely different survival stories.
Some hunt for Alpha opportunities like hunters—spending 50 USDT to buy US stock tokens just for 5 points of rewards, or scrutinizing the next airdrop project with microscopic precision, timing their exits to two decimal places under various labels. Repeated calculations between $0.01 and $0.03, this is the entire game. Essentially, it’s a brutal arbitrage of information, speed, and liquidity—a classic zero-sum game.
On the other side, volatility is everywhere. A tweet gets deleted, or a decision by a core team member is made, and your assets can ride a roller coaster. In this highly uncertain environment, most people are fragmented, constantly caught in high-frequency, low-yield consumption battles.
But while this ground-level skirmish continues, the real changes that will define the next decade are quietly being laid out from above. This isn’t about winning more chips at the existing gambling table, but about a complete shift in gameplay—directly controlling the casino itself, then building a high-speed road to the real gold mine.
Simply put, it’s about bringing the trillions of dollars in traditional finance—those stable assets and cash flows backed by national credit and the real economy—into the crypto world on a large scale and in compliance. This is called RWA (Real World Assets), a true dimensionality reduction strike.
You can see this blueprint gradually coming to life. Take protocols like Lista DAO, for example. It evolved from a purely on-chain lending market into a bridge connecting RWA. What does this mean? It means your wealth management approach might be completely rewritten. No longer chasing a few percentage points of daily volatility, but accessing stable yields backed by real assets. This is the real game-changer.