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The exploitation of the RWA protocol reaches $ 14.6m in H1 2025, which is more than 2024

cryptobizinvest.com August 21, 2025

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Cryptocurrency hackers target real-world tokenization protocols (RWA), which causes a security threat to increase institutional demand for the emerging blockchain sector.

Real world asset Tokenization Refers to the financial and other tangible possessions that are printed on the unchanged blockchain ledgers, increasing investor access and trading opportunities for these properties.

Hackers began targeting RWA protocols, as losses from specific RWA exploits reached $ 14.6 million in the first half of 2025, according to a report by blockchain security firm Certik and shared with cointelegraph.

The $ 14.6 million is more than double the $ 6 million lost to the RWA protocol being exploited in 2024, and could rise above $ 17.9 million lost in 2023.

The exploits of this RWA have been defined as “completely onchain failures and operations,” which has signed a “clear change in the RWA threat landscape between 2023 and 2025,” according to the Certik.

*RWA is exploited by blockchain networks. Source: Certik*

Growing malicious activity around the sector came as the RWA Market surged More than 260% in the first half of 2025, over $ 23 billion in total June 5 appreciation, Cointelegraph reported.

*Total RWA market value, all-time chart. Source: Research in Binance*

The tokenized private credit led the RWA Market Boom, which costs nearly 58% of the market sharing, followed by a tokenized US Treasury debt, worth 34%, driven by “increased participation from major industry players,” as “regulatory frameworks becomes more clear,” according

RWA Tokenization Introduces security risks of “hybrid due to offchain ownership

RWA protocols show more complex, “hybrid” security challenges, as the value of the RWA token is a claim to an offchain asset, which has expanded the surface attack beyond the intelligent contracts.

*RWA tokenization introduces complex, hybrid security risks. Source: Certik*

Each part of this five-layer security stack can display a single point of weakness, according to Certik’s report, stating:

“The main risks arise from this interaction because Offchain processes involve human actors, subject to legal interpretation, and follow operational flows.”

The risk includes Oracle manipulation, custodial and counterparty failures, the “unenforceability of legal frameworks, and deceptive proof of the attestations reserves,” the report added.

RWA restaking protocol Zoth suffered The biggest exploitation of RWA’s protocols in 2025, which lost $ 8.5 million in a “classic operational security failure,” a compromised private key on March 21, in the same month another attack took a intelligent contract of the contract logic to MINT $ 385,000 worth of property without a lot of colaratoral.

The loopscale suffered the second largest hack worth $ 5.8 million on April 26, caused by blockchain price manipulation. However, in a positive turn of events, the protocol recovered $ 2.8 million The amount of stolen funds on April 29, Cointelegraph reported.

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