🪄 Imagine This…

You can’t afford to buy an entire £400,000 house — but what if you could invest £100 and own a tiny slice of it? Now imagine trading that slice the same way you trade crypto.

💡 That’s tokenisation in action. You're breaking big, real-world assets into smaller, tradable digital bits called tokens.

🧩 What Exactly Is Tokenisation?

Tokenisation is a fancy word for a pretty straightforward idea: it means taking something from the real world (like a house, a painting, or even a concert ticket) and turning it into a digital token on a blockchain.

Think of it like this — it’s as if you could take a £1 coin and copy its value onto a magical digital sticker. That sticker can now be moved around the internet, tracked, split into smaller pieces, or sold to someone on the other side of the planet… instantly.

🔍 So… What Exactly Gets Tokenised?

🏠 Real Estate – Homes, office buildings, land

💰 Finance – Stocks, bonds, treasury bills

🎨 Collectibles – Art, music, vintage Pokémon cards

💎 Commodities – Gold, silver, oil

📄 Legal rights – Royalties, licenses, patents

If it exists in the real world and has value, it can probably be tokenised.

🧠 Why Tokenise Anything?

✔️ Fractional Ownership – Buy a piece, not the whole

🌍 Global Access – Anyone with internet can join in

🔄 Fast Trading – 24/7 markets, instant swaps

💸 Lower Costs – Cut out the middlemen

🔐 Transparency – It’s all recorded on the blockchain

🛠️ How Does It Work?

Pick a Real-World Asset (e.g. a building)

Create Tokens representing ownership or rights

Put Tokens on a Blockchain

Sell or trade them online

Each token can represent a tiny share of the asset. It’s like breaking up a cake into slices and giving people a fork and a napkin.

🧱 Not Just Imaginary

This isn’t future tech — it’s already happening:

BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are experimenting with tokenised treasury bonds

Real estate in the U.S. and Dubai has been sold via blockchain

Ondo and other RWA-focused crypto projects are tokenising real-world yields

🧠 But Isn’t It Just...Digitising Stuff?

It’s more than that. Tokenisation doesn’t just make a digital copy. It creates a secure, traceable proof of ownership that lives forever on the blockchain. It also makes it programmable. For example, you could set a rule that a tokenised concert ticket can’t be resold above its original price. That’s something old systems can’t do.

⚠️ Quick Reality Check

Tokenisation doesn’t make every investment safe. The real world still applies:

Assets can go down in value

Regulation is still catching up

Scams can still happen — do your research!

🧵 Connecting to RWAs

Tokenisation is the engine. RWAs are the passengers. When you tokenize an RWA, you’re unlocking all the benefits of decentralisation, transparency, and global access without losing touch with reality. It's not just about owning a token — it’s about owning something real through that token.

🧭 What’s Next?

🔍 What Are RWAs and Why Should I Care?