A new report from the onchain data firm Dune finds that tokenized markets do not trade or attract investment the same way traditional markets do. The report puts the value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) at $34.5 billion. Cointelegraph reported the findings on Oct. 1, 2026.
Dune compared activity on blockchains with activity off them in four groups of products: equities, credit, commodities and cash-equivalent products. Its main finding is that these assets do not always behave the same way once they are tokenized.
The available text of the article does not say how the patterns differ, which of the four groups shows the biggest difference, or how Dune measured it. Those details are not yet known from this report. The article was written by Ezra Reguerra and reviewed by Yohan Yun.
For someone already holding a perpetual futures position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, this report changes nothing directly. It does not mention perpetual futures, funding rates, trading fees or exchange liquidity. It describes tokenized assets and how they compare with traditional markets, and it has no stated effect on what it costs to hold a perp position.
Source: cointelegraph — Tokenized assets don’t always mirror traditional markets, Dune finds