Ethereum hits $15b in RWAs.
Stani supports Abundance Assets.
EF sponsors PolyU scholarships.
Harvard endowment adds ETH.
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The market cap of tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs) on Ethereum mainnet has surpassed $15 billion, making Ethereum the leading blockchain by distributed RWA value. The value represents a nearly 200% year-over-year increase. Ethereum currently hosts 661 distinct RWA tokens with around 173,000 holders. U.S. Treasuries account for $5.3 billion of RWAs, followed by commodities at $5.1 billion and private credit at $2.4 billion. The Ethereum mainnet stablecoin market cap has also grown to over $164 billion. Ethereum dominance in tokenized finance captures roughly 59% of the total onchain RWA value across all chains.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov proposed that Aave should support abundance assets by tokenizing real-world infrastructure, such as solar and other clean energy projects, and supporting them as collateral on the protocol. Abundance assets are technologies that drive costs down, expand productive capacity, resist inflation, and generate positive economic feedback loops. Kulechov argues that bringing the asset class onchain through DeFi can help solve structural capital allocation problems in global finance. In his view, DeFi has already solved the supply side of capital by aggregating global liquidity. He believes tokenizing solar would create new borrowing demand, absorb stablecoin liquidity, and connect DeFi directly to productive economic activity.
The Ethereum Foundation is partnering with the Research Centre for Blockchain Technology (RCBT) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), providing scholarships for MSc in Blockchain Technology, MSc in Cybersecurity, and PhD students pursuing blockchain research. The Foundation emphasized that universities play a key role in Ethereum's long-term public good. The collaboration aims to establish a commitment to academic excellence, talent development, and a secure Web3 ecosystem. The Ethereum Foundation and PolyU will also co-host events, including the Ethereum Hong Kong Meetup at Consensus 2026.
Harvard Management Company, which oversees Harvard University's $50 billion endowment, has initiated its first Ethereum investment by acquiring 3.87 million shares of BlackRock's iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA), valued at $86.8 million, according to recent 13F filings. As of Q4 2025, the endowment's total cryptocurrency exposure through spot ETFs is approximately $352 million.
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