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Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) reached just under $300 billion in 2025, with some projections placing the market at $30 trillion by 2034.

Much of the momentum is led by stablecoins, with Ethereum alone registering an all-time high supply of $165 billion this week. But in a world of high fees, high-friction, and clunky UX, are blockchain rails ready to absorb such demand?

Despite the many advancements in tokenized RWAs, crypto innovators are acutely aware that a truly seamless system remains a moving target.

“It’s evolving,” admits Aishwary Gupta, Global Head of Payments at Polygon Labs. With a background in web2 payments and treasury management at American Express (“moving money across the borders”), for Aishwary, the problem isn’t the tech: the technical rails themselves are moving fast.

“For Polygon, we just upgraded to 1,000 TPS, and in two months, we’ll be around 5,000 TPS. So effectively, the infrastructure is available… You can scale Polygon to have 50,000 transactions per second if the demand is coming in.”

Aishwary maintains that the old scaling challenges are fading fast, yet they’re quickly being replaced by other snags, such as regulatory hurdles and liquidity bottlenecks.

In just four years, the difference is 180

Aishwary joined Polygon in 2021 as their “first full-time employee in DeFi.” Comparing the state of tokenized payments today to back then, he says, the difference is night and day. Four years ago, according to Aishwary, the fees were higher and the onboarding experience far worse.

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Author: Christina Comben