Stablecoins Meet RWA: How Multi-Chain Infrastructure Is Building the 24/7 Institutional Settlement Layer
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The $272 billion stablecoin market and the $18.6 billion tokenized real-world asset (RWA) sector are no longer parallel tracks — they're converging into a single, unified settlement infrastructure that could reshape institutional finance. BlackRock's BUIDL fund now operates across seven blockchains simultaneously. Circle's latest cross-chain protocol settles transfers in seconds rather than the previous 13-19 minutes. Wyoming issued its state stablecoin on seven chains at once. This isn't experimentation anymore: it's the early architecture of a 24/7, always-on institutional clearing system.