Centrifuge reports 300% growth in tokenized assets to nearly $4B

While most of DeFi spent the past three years nursing its wounds from a brutal TVL drawdown, one corner of the market was doing something unusual: growing. Centrifuge, the platform that helps bring real-world assets onto the blockchain, has seen tokenized assets on its infrastructure balloon from $12 million to nearly $4 billion, a roughly 300% growth trajectory that stands in sharp contrast to the broader decentralized finance landscape. The platform’s own Total Value Locked now exceeds $1.8 billion, with 1,768 assets tokenized across its ecosystem. That makes Centrifuge one of the largest venues for real-world asset tokenization in crypto, a category that has quietly become the sector’s most credible bridge to traditional finance. From niche experiment to institutional magnet Centrifuge crossed the $1 billion TVL mark in August 2025, a milestone fueled in large part by institutional products like Janus Henderson’s tokenized offerings. Janus Henderson alone accounted for roughly $1.3 billion in tokenized assets on the platform during 2025, with its JAAA fund serving as a key driver of inflows. On June 30, 2026, New York Life Investment Management, one of the largest asset managers...