For Real World Assets (e.g. Real Estate) to come on-chain (e.g. as NFTs), there needs to be a way of linking the physical to the digital object in a trustless way. This seems impossible. Who is tackling this and what are the solutions?

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I don’t, but it seems like the next several orders of magnitude of growth for crypto could easily come from RWAs just by sheer TAM if there is a legitimate use case.

On the flip side, the existence of a uniform system for numerical identity for digital assets could mean crypto grows not because it comes to handle RWAs but rather that the proportion of digital assets (which will be increasingly represented on chain) to RWAs grows