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FOUR Crashes 21% After Launching RWA Module

TL;DR

• Four launched an RWA module on BNB Chain to tokenize real-world assets and open new financing channels for on-chain projects and developers.
• The module aims to reduce frictions between traditional financial processes and on-chain flows, easing access to institutional capital.
• The FOUR token plunged to $3.14, falling 21.45% in 24 hours, which highlights market doubts about the module’s immediate economic impact.

Four launched its Real World Assets (RWA) module on BNB Chain, a tool designed to enable on-chain transactions of traditional assets such as equity or intellectual property. With this initiative, the company seeks to open additional funding routes for projects on the network and expand liquidity sources available to developers and on-chain initiatives.

The module facilitates the tokenization and transfer of real-world assets on BNB Chain’s infrastructure. In practice, this allows projects to access capital through instruments that previously remained outside the decentralized ecosystem. The goal of this integration is to reduce frictions between conventional financial processes and on-chain flows, which could speed up operations that until now depended on traditional intermediaries.

Raoul Pal, CEO of Real Vision, said that integrating real-world assets into blockchain platforms can attract institutional investment and improve liquidity. Previous experiences with projects like Chainlink show that tokenization tends to increase the total value locked in networks that adopt these mechanisms. That comparison explains institutional investors’ expectations about the potential impact on BNB Chain’s ability to move capital.

Why Did the FOUR Token Fall?

At the time of writing this article, BNB trades at $873.12, with a market capitalization of $121.53 billion. In contrast, the FOUR token plunged: it trades at $3.14 and shows a 21.45% drop in the last 24 hours. That sharp decline suggests the market questions whether the promise of greater liquidity will translate into immediate economic results for token holders.

Implementing the RWA module represents a bet on integrating conventional assets without sacrificing the transparency offered by the on-chain ecosystem. The technical and regulatory challenge will be to ensure that tokenization processes meet legal requirements and that on-chain mechanisms provide guarantees comparable to those of traditional markets.

The outcome will depend on Four’s ability to execute the integration and on institutional investors’ response. If institutions perceive security and efficiency, BNB Chain could receive steadier capital flows. If not, the interest will remain in technical promises without economic backing