$14.6 Million in RWA Hacks This Year Reveals the Gap Between Tokenization Hype and Reality
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RWA tokenization hit $35.68B in 2025, but $14.6M in hacks exposed security gaps. Can the industry scale to $2 trillion by 2028 amid regulatory fragmentation?
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Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization reached $35.68 billion in 2025, with projections to hit $2 trillion by 2028. But the rapid growth exposed critical vulnerabilities: $14.6 million was lost to hacks—more than double the previous year—with most exploits occurring in DeFi wrappers rather than the tokenized assets themselves.
The GENIUS Act provided regulatory clarity for stablecoins but left gaps across the full asset lifecycle. Meanwhile, institutional giants like BlackRock, JPMorgan, and State Street are building on private blockchains, validating the market but creating interoperability challenges.
Platforms like Mavryk (tokenizing $10B in luxury real estate), Ondo Finance (Treasury-backed tokens), and Securitize (infrastructure provider) are attempting to bridge institutional compliance with public blockchain efficiency.
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The Invisible Breach: How AI Is Quietly Creating New Security Blind Spots in Modern Tech
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We're watching organizations introduce sophisticated machine learning systems to reduce risk, only to discover its creating entirely new categories of risk.
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We're watching organizations introduce sophisticated machine learning systems to reduce risk, only to discover those same systems are creating entirely new categories of vulnerability.
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How Request–Response Really Works
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Learn how the request–response model really works under the hood.
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Learn how the request–response model really works under the hood.
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Taking Control Of Software Supply Chains in the Open Source Era
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Understanding how these recent npm attacks unfolded will help signal a way forward for a more secure software supply chain.
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Understanding how these recent npm attacks unfolded will help signal a way forward for a more secure software supply chain.
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You’ve Learned to Break Wi-Fi. Now Learn to Lock It Down.
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A practical guide to Wi-Fi hardening using strong passwords, entropy, OpSec and key router safeguards for a safer, more resilient network.
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This blog wraps up your journey from Wi-Fi hacking to hardening. It guides you through the key steps to lock down your network — upgrade to WPA3 when possible, use strong and unique passwords, disable risky features like WPS, keep firmware updated, and adopt sound digital hygiene. The result: a Wi-Fi network and password hygiene strategy that greatly reduces the risk of compromise.
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