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Tokenization and real-world assets terms

Full crawlable term index for tokenization and real-world assets: Payment tokenization, asset tokenization, stable assets, and infrastructure that.

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Three meanings of tokenization

Tokenization can refer to payment credential replacement, on-chain representation of assets, or programmable wrappers around existing value. This hub makes those meanings explicit so that product and market conversations do not collapse them into one vague label.

Asset realism

RWA language matters because a token is not automatically equivalent to legal ownership, settlement finality, or reserve quality. This hub connects asset-backed terms with custody, proof, and issuance assumptions.

Bridge between payments and crypto

The same vocabulary increasingly appears in both payments and crypto. Network token, stablecoin, CBDC, and wrapped assets sit at that boundary, which is why this hub is structurally linked to both cards/payments and crypto infrastructure.

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