Democratizing Real Estate: How Polygon's infrastructure is powering a tokenized property platform
Polygon Weekly Overview - March 28, 2025
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By The Numbers
Polygon daily active users: 554.13K (+8.36%)
Polygon daily txns: 3.14M (+1.95%)
Polygon Total Volume Locked (TVL): $754M (+2.24%)
NFT weekly sales volume: $18.43M (+62.95%)
Top 3 NFT collections by sales volume:
Courtyard: $16.16M (+68.39%)
Infinitex: $602.5K (+203.20%)
LED COLLECTION: $227.36K (+14.28%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Agglayer Spotlight
🟪What happened: DigiShares, an investment and digital asset management platform, has launched RealEstate.Exchange (REX), a tokenized real estate trading platform on Polygon PoS.
🟪Why does it matter: Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, with a total value exceeding $600 trillion. Despite its scale, the sector remains complex and heavily regulated, making investment opportunities often difficult and inaccessible. DigiShares looks to address the liquidity element, which is one of the biggest hurdles for real estate, through tokenization.
REX is building a secondary market where investors can trade fractional property interests without the traditional long-term capital lock up. The exchange will launch by offering retail investors access to fractional ownership in luxury Miami real estate, with built-in secondary market liquidity. This model aims to lower the barrier to entry for premium real estate opportunities, such as The Legacy Hotel & Residences in Miami.
By tokenizing assets, REX enables millions of new participants to access real estate investment opportunities that were previously limited to high net worth individuals with an understanding of local compliance. This secondary market has the ability to democratize this investment and grow the asset class even further with global investments liquid and accessible to individuals on the REX platform.
Polygon PoS was chosen as the infrastructure backbone of this market due to its low fees, fast settlement times and security features. Its capabilities have also led to recent growth in stablecoin activity along with an increase in DeFi partnerships with Morpho, Compound and Fluid. The ecosystem continues to expand its offerings as tokenized assets gain traction and traditional institutions begin to leverage its technology.
🟪The big picture: Currently, the total value of real-world assets (RWAs) onchain stands at $19.64 billion, which is a drop in the ocean compared to the multi-trillion-dollar traditional markets now beginning to explore tokenization. The dominance of U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins like USDC and USDT is helping to offer fast, secure payment rails that make tokenized assets more accessible and functional.
As DeFi adoption accelerates, Polygon is positioning itself as a foundational layer for startups to tokenize assets across sectors including stablecoins, real estate, commodities and more. The network ranks among the top three blockchains for monthly USDC and USDT address activity, according to Dune Analytics.
Institutional interest is also gaining momentum. With BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, which holds $1.9 billion in tokenized U.S. Treasury debt, it has allocated $33 million of that to the Polygon network—highlighting its growing role in the tokenized asset ecosystem.
Into the Agglayer
Learn more about how proof aggregation works on Agglayer and what folding schemes are in a livestream
Listen to the Agglayer X Space on how to build a scalable blockchain future by unifying liquidity
ICYMI: Check out the panel from AggDay at ETHDenver discuss the rise of alternative virtual machines
Tune into The Aggregated X Space with QuickSwap discussing RWA tokenization trends featuring BlackRock and JP Morgan insights
Ecosystem Showcase
Compound Vaults, a stablecoin liquidity protocol Polygon PoS reached $25M in supply,10 days after its launch
Pheasant Swap is live on Polygon PoS, offering a simple way to move assets between networks
Read about how Polygon collaborated with Reddit to launch NFTs to its users
Catex announced the launch of its MetaDEX to Polygon PoS, with swaps and upcoming pre-mining rewards
Watch this keynote from ETHDenver with Polygon SVP David Silverman on why TVL is a broken metric
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