Tokenized US Treasury Market Surges by $1B Since Beginning of Year

The tokenized US Treasury market has surged by over $1 billion because the starting of 2026, regardless of macroeconomic uncertainty and issues over the US authorities’s rising nationwide debt.

Tokenized US Treasurys are authorities debt devices issued as real-world belongings (RWAs) and represented onchain by a token.

The market capitalization of tokenized Treasurys climbed to greater than $10.8 billion on the time of writing from $8.9 billion on Jan. 1, in line with knowledge from RWA.xyz.

The tokenized US Treasury market has surged 50x since 2024, in line with knowledge from Token Terminal, aided by the March 2024 debut of asset supervisor BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), which now has a market cap of greater than $1.2 billion.

Tokenized US Treasurys continued to surge regardless of a broad crypto market downturn that started in October 2025, rising US authorities debt ranges and investor uncertainty concerning the macroeconomic outlook in 2026.

Associated: Tokenized RWAs climb 13.5% regardless of $1T crypto market drawdown

The Depository Belief and Clearing Company to launch US Treasury tokenization service

The Depository Belief and Clearing Company (DTCC), which offers clearing and settlement companies for world monetary markets, introduced plans in December 2025 to launch an asset tokenization service, starting with US Treasurys.

DTCC will ultimately broaden the service to incorporate a “broad spectrum” of belongings, in accordance to CEO Frank La Salla. 

“Following the tokenization of US Treasurys on the Canton community, DTCC anticipates that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and equities will come shortly thereafter,” La Salla stated.

The DTCC is the biggest clearinghouse on the planet and settled $3.7 quadrillion in transaction quantity in 2024, in line with the corporate.