{"id":549494,"date":"2026-01-31T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/?p=1279886"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:20:01","slug":"why-xrp-is-gaining-ground-in-the-tokenized-rwa-market-ahead-of-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/why-xrp-is-gaining-ground-in-the-tokenized-rwa-market-ahead-of-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"Why XRP Is Gaining Ground in the Tokenized RWA Market Ahead of Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"eth-editorial-banner\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eth-editorial-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cnf2-scaled-1-1-1.png\" alt=\"Crypto News Flash\"> <span class=\"eth-editorial-text\">All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders.<\/span> <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The XRP Ledger now boasts $1.44 billion in represented asset value, recording a 266% surge in the past 30 days to rank fourth on the charts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>XRPL has overtaken most of the major networks, holding over six times more in RAV than Ethereum and twice as much as Avalanche.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/what-is-ripple-and-what-is-xrp-origin-and-beginner-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XRP Ledger<\/a> has continued to gain ground in tokenization and is now one of the world\u2019s largest networks by represented asset value (RAV), overtaking incumbents like Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/app.rwa.xyz\/networks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data<\/a> from RWA.xyz, XRPL holds $144 billion in RAV, noting a 266% surge in January. It counts 15 real-world asset (RWA) holders, a 15% rise in 30 days, although its 30-day transfer volume has dipped 90% to $10.12 million. Canton ranks first for RWA at a staggering $357.7 billion. As we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/canton-network-wall-street-6t-volume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>, Canton has emerged as the quiet catalyst for tokenization on Wall Street. In December, DTCC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/dtcc-canton-network-tokenization\/\">selected<\/a> Canton to tokenize its custodied US Treasuries, and earlier this month, it emerged that Canton processes $6 trillion in monthly volume.<\/p>\n<p>Provenance and ZKSync Era rank second and third at $14.9 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively. Polygon ranks just behind XRPL at fifth with $840 million, while Avalanche\u2019s $715 million place it sixth. Ethereum is ninth with $197 million after recording a 31% dip in January. However, Ethereum\u2019s RWA holders sit at 163,000 while its 30-day transfer volume shot up 92% to $20.45 billion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1279887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1279887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1279887 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-31-at-11.59.03.png\" alt=\"RWA xrp Ledger\" width=\"1916\" height=\"872\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1279887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/app.rwa.xyz\/networks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rwa.xyz<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, it\u2019s important to note that XRP ranks fourth in represented asset value (RAV), not distributed asset value (DAV). On rwa-xyz, RAV is a measure of assets tokenized on a blockchain network but not transferable outside the network. Essentially, these are on-chain records of off-chain assets and can\u2019t be traded peer-to-peer; they are more like digital representations.<\/p>\n<p>DAV, on the other hand, is a measure of tokens represented and tradable on-chain. These can be traded P2P and transferred to any supported wallet, and mainly use the underlying blockchain as a distribution layer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/what-is-ethereum-a-complete-history-and-beginners-guide\/\">Ethereum<\/a> remains dominant in DAV, where it holds $15.5 billion, seven times more than second-placed BNB Chain. Liquid Network, Solana, and Stellar are the only other networks that have hit $1 billion. On DAV, XRP ranks 10th at $235 million.<\/p>\n<h2>XRP Ledger Gains Ground in Tokenization<\/h2>\n<p>XRP Ledger\u2019s sharp rise in RAV indicates that an increasing number of enterprise users view it as more efficient than its peers in representing value on-chain. Justoken is the largest manager on the network at over $860 million, with VERT Capital the other major player.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of asset classes, commodities account for $1.1 billion, with private credit at $270 million, while real estate is still a relatively small asset class. Stablecoins are also an important part of XRPL\u2019s tokenization sector. Individually, stablecoins hold the highest total RWA value at $260 million. Data shows that the network has over 34,000 stablecoin holders who transacted $1.13 billion in January. The stablecoin market cap stands at $335 million.<\/p>\n<p>As we have previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/xrp-news-ripple-tokenization-to-18-9-t\/\">reported<\/a>, Ripple has been pushing the adoption of XRPL in tokenization, which it views as an $18.9 trillion opportunity. In her predictions for 2026, Ripple President Monica Long said that this will be the year when the financial industry will adopt tokenization to modernize settlement, as CNF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/ripple-monica-long-2026-predictions\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>XRP trades at <strong>$1.7,<\/strong> dipping <span><strong>2.8%<\/strong><\/span> in the past 24 hours as volume dropped<strong><span> 23%<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. The XRP Ledger now boasts $1.44 billion in represented asset value, recording a 266% surge in the past 30 days to rank fourth on the charts. XRPL has overtaken most of the major networks, holding over six times more in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25,102,2007],"class_list":{"0":"post-549494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-other","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-xrp","10":"tag-xrp-ledger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}