Critical review demonstrates massive growth in tokenized real estate assets on decentralized exchanges, suggesting DeFi enhances financial inclusion for hospitality investments.
Key Points
To critically review the role of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization in facilitating financial inclusion and value creation in hospitality real estate investments.
Conducted a critical conceptual review evaluating DeFi structural frameworks, including real-world asset tokenization and decentralized exchange (DEX) transactions in commercial and hospitality property markets.
Total value locked in tokenized real estate expanded from $157.79 million in 2022 to $10.6 billion as of Q1 2025, driven by hotel and commercial real estate adoption.
Tokenization of real-world assets provides small and independent hospitality enterprises with transparent, disintermediated capital-raising mechanisms and digital collateral options.