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Today we are launching Catapult: an evergreen accelerator for scaling RWAs onchain.
RockawayX is partnering with founders to tokenize differentiated, high-yielding assets, then backing them with design, anchor TVL, liquidity support, DeFi integrations, and a mentorship program of the industry’s best. 🧵
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Fixed Rates are now live in the @onrefinance Market.
Launching with $1.5M in liquidity, users can borrow USDC against ONyc at a fixed 8% rate across rolling 30-day terms, with ONyc/USDC Fixed Rate Multiply.
The future of onchain credit is fixed.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
I'm participating in @RockawayX's Catapult as a mentor. RWA teams get venture funding, liquidity from a $150m facility, market making, and help scaling the asset across onchain markets. A new support stack for new founders.
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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Monitoring the Situation
Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
Wow.
@PirateWires uncovers what everyone suspected: Jacob Coxon was propped up as a puppet by an AI Doomer PR firm
Regulatory psyop confirmed.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
Looking forward to being a catapult mentor!
This is a unique program & I expect to see some awesome new assets on chain especially with the right support system around them 🚀
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
"Don't think for a second that because you are an 'alarmist' that you are doing a social good." Amen.
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Catapult was built from first principles to support RWA founders & solve the cold start problem for asset issuers & originators.
Design, liquidity, and distribution, all in one program.
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
If you are interested in learning more about @onrefinance, RWAs, tokenization and why @solana.
Tune In.
Was great joining @ryanconnor and the team at 0x to dive into our thesis, growth on @kamino, challenges, and what's next!
NEW POD
We Cover:
▫️ Yield uncorrelated to crypto
▫️ Turning reinsurance into collateral
▫️ Catastrophe + liquidation risk on leverage
▫️ Tokenization without utility isn’t enough
▫️ Yield trading + credit tranching for RWAs
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
04:15 How Does Onchain Reinsurance Work?
09:43 Why Is Reinsurance Yield Different?
14:38 Where Does The Yield Come From?
20:47 Turning Reinsurance Into DeFi Collateral
26:47 What Could Wipe Out Your Yield?
34:35 Can AI Improve Insurance Underwriting?
37:53 Does DeFi Leverage Add New Risks?
42:45 How Big Can Onchain Reinsurance Get?
46:28 Scaling Beyond Solana
50:57 Which RWAs Actually Belong Onchain?
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
The next wave of RWAs will be driven by assets that bring differentiated, uncorrelated yield and real utility to DeFi.
ONyc is proof of that opportunity, having scaled past $300M in AUM in just over a year and become the #1 RWA on @solana by active TVL.
@RockawayX has been an important part of that growth from the start, bringing together seed capital, liquidity, market making, and distribution to help turn a new onchain product into a scaled market.
Catapult brings that infrastructure and playbook to the next generation of founders. Excited to see what comes next.
5/ A proven formula
We applied the Catapult model with @onrefinance, which tokenizes real-world reinsurance. RockawayX worked with the team from Day 1, providing investment, liquidity and market making, DeFi integrations, and vault distribution. We overcame the cold-start problem that makes new RWAs difficult to scale onchain.
The result? OnRe is a standout RWA success, reaching $300M+ in AUM in just over one year, while maintaining double-digit yields.
That’s a major achievement for any upstart reinsurer. OnRe is the largest RWA market on @kamino at $300M, and ONyc is the #1 RWA on Solana by DeFi active TVL, accounting for ~45% of all active RWA capital on Solana.
We’re ready to catapult more OnRe’s.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
excited to join as a mentor, we need a lot more RWAs onchain
I'm very bullish on initiatives that help us get there faster and glad that Rockaway is leading the charge
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
Excited to join @RockawayX Catapult as a mentor to share insights from building @StrataMedia_, @TokenRelations & everything else in between
And kudos to the team for bringing together much needed funding, onchain liquidity, market making & distribution to a new wave of RWA builders
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
I’ve joined @RockawayX's Catapult as a mentor.
RWA teams get VC funding, liquidity from a $150m facility, market making, and help scaling across onchain markets.
The unlock is not just tokenization, but crafting markets, strategies, and structures to drive utility.
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
How to join ↓
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
I’ve joined @RockawayX's Catapult as a mentor.
RWA teams get venture funding, liquidity from a $150m facility, market making, and help scaling the asset across onchain markets.
A dream support stack for new founders
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
How to join ↓
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
Don’t miss this if you’re building yield-bearing RWAs. Catapult is one of the few setups that actually helps you scale liquidity, integrations and distribution.
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
There’s such a big opportunity today for differentiated onchain yield products as RWAs continue to see exponential growth. Excited to see Catapult launch and what the teams coming through it build
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
Don't use a 50 vol asset as collateral.
@ryanconnor says sharp drawdowns constrain leverage, but reinsurance exposure is high yield with no vol.
“You’re going to get much more utility out of using that asset.”
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Ryan | Catapult RWA Accelerator☄️ retweeted
Crypto needs new sources of yield onchain.
Ideas? Anything is game: from trade finance, fx carry trade, refactoring, to insurance and private credit, etc.
Join @RockawayX Catapult program: rockawayx.com/catapult
We will help you scale it 🚀🚀🚀
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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This is a call for startups and exceptional individuals.
If you're bringing real world assets (RWA) on-chain, have TradFi or DeFi chops and a desire to build a unicorn, we want to hear from you.
RockawayX's Catapult is an incubator that will build alongside you.
We'll provide:
The capital - first cheque, liquidity bootstrapping, market making, and vault curation onto the major lending markets.
The experts - mentors from 20+ leading RWA companies who have already shipped tokenised credit products and DeFi integrations, and know what goes wrong.
Make your application here: rockawayx.com/catapult
(1/6) Introducing Catapult, our accelerator for founders bringing new yield-bearing RWAs onchain.
You bring the asset, and our team incubates, bootstraps liquidity, market-makes, and drives integrations across onchain markets through our curation arm, while leaders from 20+ top co’s shaping the RWA space mentor you along the way.
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