Source: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/real-world-asset

# Real-world asset (RWA)
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/real-world-asset
Last modified: 2026-10-17

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](https://mochatrade.com/support/what-is-a-perpetual-contract-and-does-it-expire); if nobody stands behind the claim, [nothing pulls it back](https://mochatrade.com/blog/what-happens-when-the-only-thing). [Module 2 is the assets](https://mochatrade.com/learn); [listed ones](https://mochatrade.com/support/what-can-i-trade-on-mochatrade).

## Related terms

- 24/7 trading: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/24-7-trading
- Perpetual futures: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/perpetual-futures
- Price band (discovery bounds): https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/price-band
- Oracle price: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/oracle-price
- ADR (American Depositary Receipt): https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/adr
- Pre-IPO stocks: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/pre-ipo-stocks

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