The RWA landscape
Five protocols dominate the public conversation on Real-World Assets: Ondo Finance (tokenised T-bills), Centrifuge (invoice and asset financing), Maple Finance (institutional credit), Goldfinch (private credit pools), and Polymath (security-token infrastructure).
Each one solves a slice of the RWA problem. None of them ask the question PoV answers: how do you verify that the off-chain event actually happened, before letting the chain commit to it? They rely on oracles, trusted attesters, or off-chain legal agreements. EDMA enforces verification at the contract level.
And none of them have a parent company running the trade operation that becomes the evidence source. EDMA Group LLC ships 20M boxes of gloves a year across 9 countries on Trade OS. That data is what feeds PoV, meaning evidence flow is guaranteed from day one rather than dependent on third-party adoption.
Head-to-head essentials
- Consensus model
- EDMA runs PoV on top of Ethereum PoS. Every other protocol relies on PoS + off-chain trust (oracles, legal agreements).
- Native tokens
- EDMA has three (utility/governance + settlement stablecoin + energy). Ondo and Polymath have one each. Centrifuge has CFG. Maple has MPL. Goldfinch has GFI.
- Fee burn
- EDMA: 50% of every protocol fee burns $EDM, hard-coded, until 100M floor. Most peers: revenue share to staking or treasury only.
- Evidence source
- EDMA: live $80M parent trade operation. Peers: third-party-driven; protocol adoption is the bottleneck.
- Audits at presale
- Cyberscope + Coinsult done. Certik on refactored token. $18M of liquidity locked at listing. Most peers raised on convertible notes before public audit.
- Vesting transparency
- Published: 20% TGE, 80% over 12 months. Peers vary; some have unpublished cliffs.
Three differentiators
Verification-native
PoV is enforced in protocol contracts. Other RWA projects layer compliance on top of generic L1s. EDMA is the only one where the gate is the protocol, not a wrapper.
Evidence already exists
Parent EDMA Group runs 20M-boxes-a-year of medical glove trade on Trade OS. The data flow that PoV consumes is already live in production, every QC inspection, every customs clearance, every shipment.
Three-token economy
$EDM (utility/governance + fee burn), $EDSD (settlement stablecoin replacing Letters of Credit), $ETT (energy production receipts). One protocol; three demand vectors for the network.
