Dune Launches RWA Dataset to Make the Tokenized Asset Market Observable After Issuance

The deepest onchain record of real-world assets: every transfer, trade, mint, and redemption from the first block, across 6,800+ token deployments on 21 chains

NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dune, the industry standard for onchain data, today launched its Real-World Assets dataset ahead of RWA Summit Brooklyn, bringing visibility to the part of the tokenized asset market that has stayed opaque: everything that happens after issuance.

The Dune RWA dataset is the deepest onchain record of real-world assets: who tokenized and issued each one, on what terms, who holds it, every transfer and trade, and synthetic exposure through perpetuals. At launch, it spans 6,800+ token deployments from 258 issuers across 21 chains and 8 asset classes. All normalized and labeled to one common data model, so the work of finding and reconciling the data is already done.

As new products are issued onchain, the dataset will continue to grow with the market it measures.

"A few years ago there was a question if assets would move on blockchains. Now virtually all of Wall Street is embracing tokenization full on. The questions now are: where does it trade, who holds it and what happens when people want out. We structured the data so an issuer, an analyst, or a regulator can actually understand of market structure is evolving in this new era of finance," said Fredrik Haga, CEO of Dune.

Early analysis, the first market-wide measurement of RWA activity after issuance, shows why that layer matters:

• Finding 1: Labeled holder data shows each asset class sits with a different kind of entity: about 30% of tokenized gold is customer balances in exchange custody, while 15% of tokenized credit is posted as collateral in DeFi lending markets.
• Finding 2: Trading is moving to synthetics: over the four weeks to 24 August, perpetuals on gold and equities traded $103bn against $4.1bn of onchain spot volume. Those markets have gone from 0.2% to 51% of Hyperliquid's monthly volume in nine months.

A full report on the state of the post-issuance RWA market will follow in the coming weeks, sign up here to get it delivered in your inbox.

You can now explore the RWA dataset and metrics on Dune.

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