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Plume is a public, EVM-compatible blockchain designed for Real World Assets (RWAs) and RWA finance (RWAfi). Its stated goal is to move assets such as private credit, ETFs, commodities, real estate, and collectibles from closed financial systems onto a permissionless, composable onchain environment.

Rather than treating tokenization as the endpoint, Plume presents RWAs as crypto-native building blocks that can be staked, swapped, lent, borrowed, and used as collateral. The network is intended to connect institutional-grade assets with DeFi applications while preserving transparency and improving user access.

Plume is a modular network whose documented components include Arc, a tokenization engine; Smart Wallets/Passport, which embed custody and compliance functions; and Nexus, a data highway for bringing offchain information onchain. The chain is EVM-compatible, with Ethereum as its settlement layer.

The ecosystem is aimed at issuers, institutions, DeFi developers, and users seeking yield or liquidity from tokenized assets. Plume documentation reports more than 200 protocols onboarded and substantial testnet activity, but these are project-reported figures and can change over time.

Traditional real-world assets are often difficult for crypto users to access, transfer, compose, or use in DeFi. Tokenized assets can also remain economically stagnant when they cannot be collateralized, integrated with lending markets, or traded with useful liquidity. Plume targets this gap by making RWA representations usable across a crypto-native financial stack.

RWA systems must also address compliance, identity, asset data, and liquidity rather than only minting tokens. Plume's documented approach puts AML/compliance integrations, liquidity and trading support, and data feeds into the network's broader toolkit. This is intended to help issuers and applications handle regulated assets while making valuations and financial products more data-aware.

The model does not remove asset-specific, counterparty, regulatory, custody, or market risks. Access and transferability can depend on an asset issuer's legal structure and compliance rules, and yields shown by applications are not guaranteed by the base chain.

Plume operates as an EVM-compatible mainnet with chain ID 98866, PLUME as its native gas token, and Ethereum as the settlement layer. Developers can use standard EVM tooling and the documented RPC endpoints to deploy contracts and build applications; the official explorer provides transaction and contract inspection.

Arc is the architecture's tokenization engine. Plume describes it as supporting the creation, onboarding, and management of physical and digital asset representations while connecting to compliance and data systems. This creates the issuer-facing path from an offchain asset and its legal/compliance requirements to an onchain token.

At the user and application layer, Smart Wallets/Passport are designed to combine custody and compliance controls so RWA holdings can interact with DeFi functions such as yield generation and liquidity management. Plume also documents built-in AML compliance through compliance partners, with verification applied to users and asset transactions.

Nexus supplies offchain data to onchain applications, including lending, prediction markets, valuations, and other RWAfi use cases. Once assets and data are available, DeFi protocols can provide staking, swaps, lending, borrowing, yield farming, collateralization, and structured strategies. PLUME pays network gas, supports staking and governance, and is used for ecosystem incentives.