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XRP Ledger’s Largest Asset Sits Frozen by Design, Analyst Finds

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Anjali Belgaumkar

A new analysis is challenging the widely repeated claim that half of the tokenized asset market has stalled. The argument centers on a single token most XRP watchers have never mentioned.

A $2.2 Billion Token With 19 Owners

The token is called JMWH. It launched on the XRP Ledger on January 13, 2026, issued by a company called Justoken. It represents megawatt hours of Argentinian energy output.

JMWH opened at $861 million in value. By the end of May, it had grown to $2.2 billion. That makes it the largest single asset on the XRP Ledger, larger than every treasury product on the network combined.

It has 19 holders. It has recorded zero transfers since launch. According to one analyst, that is not a flaw. JMWH is minted when an energy contract is signed and burned when the electricity is delivered. The blockchain functions as a settlement and audit record, not a trading venue.

Justoken chose the XRP Ledger for its settlement design and its compatibility with Argentina’s securities regulator, the CNV, under a 2025 framework. The company has raised $17.5 million in venture funding and says it now intermediates close to $3 billion in tokenized commodity value across six tokens on two chains. Backers include Bunge, the Buenos Aires stock exchange, Visa, and Banco do Brasil.

Report Behind the Headlines

The wider debate traces back to a research report published in early July, built on data from RWA.xyz. It found $60 billion in tokenized real-world assets across more than 7,000 products. Of that total, 56 percent showed no weekly transfer activity, a figure that drove headlines describing tokenization as stalled.

The same report drew a distinction that much of the coverage skipped. It separates tokenized assets into two categories: distributed tokens, which trade on public blockchain rails and can move between wallets, and represented tokens, which function as an internal accounting record for an asset held offchain.

Roughly $33 billion of the market falls into distributed tokens. About $27 billion falls into represented tokens. For the represented category, the report states that a lack of transfers reflects the asset’s design rather than weak demand. 

Solana’s Numbers Tell a Different Story

The same week the “half the market is dead” narrative spread, Solana reported $3.47 billion in tokenized stock trading volume for the month, equal to 96 percent of all onchain stock trades globally. Daily volume hit a record $683 million.

Analysts say that the two data points, one describing dormant assets and one describing record volume, both come from credible sources and both describe the tokenization market. The gap comes from what each asset was built to do, not from a flaw in the underlying numbers.

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Anjali Belgaumkar

Writer by choice, CryptoCurrency Writer, and Researcher by chance. Currently, focusing on financial news and analysis, as well as cryptocurrency news and data. One may not call me a crypto “Enthusiast” but trust me I'm getting there.

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