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🟪What happened: Polygon expanded its European presence of regulated real-world asset (RWA) tokenization with major institutional launches. This week, BeToken deployed as Spain’s first fully regulated security token offering (STO) on Polygon, coming just a week after German state bank NRW.BANK issued a €100 million, or $118 million, blockchain bond on the network.
🟪Why does it matter: These launches show rising demand in European capital markets, moving beyond pilots and testnets as major institutions choose Polygon to bring regulated tokenized assets live.
BeToken represents actual shares in Beself Brands, a European e-commerce company based in Spain. The token is issued using ERC-3643 standard for RWAs with built-in KYC/AML compliance, giving holders economic and governance rights.
BeToken is among Europe’s first compliant equity tokenization projects, showing how blockchain can improve traditional shareholding, while staying regulated. Holders get typical securities benefits like company exposure and dividends, plus DeFi features like voting rights and the ability to voice opinions in shareholder meetings. This tokenized equity offering shows how regulated blockchain infrastructure can enhance existing shareholding structures.
Meanwhile, the German state lender NRW.BANK’s $118 million crypto bond shows growing institutional trust in blockchain infrastructure. This blockchain bond is led by major German banking institutions like Deutsche Bank, DZ BANK and DekaBank. This marks NRW.BANK’s first fully digital bond as a crypto security under Germany’s Electronic Securities Act (eWpG). The regulation allows the bond to exist entirely onchain without a physical certificate, indicating that major European economies are ready to move beyond traditional paper-based systems and into blockchain.
🟪The big picture: Polygon has become one of the leaders in RWA asset count with 255, as it ranks second among all networks, according to RWA.xyz data.
This rising tokenization on Polygon highlights market demand for blockchain infrastructure benefits like faster settlement, transparency and reduced costs. This is supported by a study conducted by the Bank for International Settlements that found tokenized government bonds typically have tighter spreads than traditional bonds, while maintaining similar issuance costs. This means investors get better pricing, while issuers keep their cost structure intact.
Meanwhile, Polygon’s technical upgrades support the demand of institutional adoption. The recent Bhilai hardfork pushed throughput beyond 1,000 TPS, while introducing EIP-7702 smart account support and stabilized gas fees. Additionally, this is combined with Heimdall v2’s ~5-second finality, improving the performance and cost-efficiency that institutional flows and capital markets require.
Ultimately, these European launches show how Polygon’s network and infrastructure is expanding to handle institutional adoption at scale.
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