Real-world asset (RWA)

A real-world asset is a physical or financial thing, gold, oil, a US share, whose price you can hold a claim on and trade all day from India. An issuer holds the asset, you hold the claim, and the claim's price can drift until the venue pulls it back; if nobody stands behind the claim, nothing pulls it back. Module 2 is the assets; listed ones.

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