Tokenized Treasury
A tokenized Treasury is a token backed by US Treasury bills or a Treasury fund, giving on-chain holders exposure to government-bond yield with blockchain settlement.
A tokenized Treasury is a token whose value and yield come from US Treasury securities - the short-term government bills that are among the safest, most liquid assets in finance. Holding the token gives on-chain exposure to Treasury yield, with the speed and transferability of a blockchain asset.
Most tokenized Treasuries are structured as a tokenized fund: a regulated fund buys the bills, and its shares are issued as tokens. A few are structured as direct notes backed by Treasuries. Either way the underlying asset is government debt, which is why this category grew from almost nothing to several billion dollars outstanding between 2023 and 2025.
The appeal is a familiar, low-risk yield delivered in a crypto-native form. On-chain treasuries settle in minutes, pay yield programmatically, and can plug into other protocols - so a company holding stablecoins can park them in a tokenized Treasury to earn the risk-free rate instead of nothing. Ondo's OUSG, BlackRock's BUIDL, and Franklin Templeton's fund are leading examples.
The risks are smaller than most RWAs but not zero. You take on the fund wrapper and its manager, the smart contract, and any gap between the token and the real bills - which is why recurring proof of reserves matters here too. And like any security token, these are usually limited to eligible, KYC'd investors.
A tokenized Treasury is the clearest "boring is good" RWA: government-bond yield, on-chain rails, regulated wrapper.
Source: rwa.xyz, as of 2026.
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