It’s been a good year for gold. But the emphasis is on been. Gold has suffered a major slip this week, dipping by double digits after outperforming most of the market for the majority of 2025. While gold’s status as a store of value isn’t about to be diminished just because it’s endured a bad week, there are signs that crypto capital is shifting away from tokenized gold to RWA opportunities whose best weeks lie ahead.
Real estate, in particular, has emerged as an attractive store of value, particularly through ReFi – the tokenization of property finance, enabling investors to fractionally own or lend to brick and mortar developments, while earning interest in the form of tokenized yield. Among the ReFi projects tapping into this rising market, ConstructKoin (CTK) has been garnering attention lately, both on account of its timing – its presale is currently live – and its ambitious roadmap.
But before we get to house bricks, let’s take a moment to assess where we’re at with those other store-of-value bricks – gold.
Gold Slides in October
Gold prices have experienced significant volatility in late October, driven by a combination of U.S.-China trade optimism and profit-taking after record highs. Throw in traders front-running impending U.S. inflation data and Federal Reserve decisions, and it’s no wonder gold’s been jittery. Indeed, the precious metal underwent a sharp correction this week, marking its steepest drop in over a decade.
Despite this reversal, gold is still up 44% for the year to date, and demand for tokenized gold such as Tether’s XAUT has remained strong, aided by increased integration with stablecoin protocols using it as collateral for yield generation. It’s been a bad week for gold traders who were leveraged long, then, but for those planning to hold tokenized gold for the long-term, the downturn is no cause for alarm.
Nevertheless, there are signs of capital rotation into other RWA sectors, as new tokenization opportunities are opening up – and real estate is looking particularly inviting.
ConstructKoin (CTK) Launches Presale at the Perfect Time
ConstructKoin is one of several up-and-coming ReFi projects looking to tokenize the global property market, and judging by the rate at which its presale’s filling up, the timing is propitious. Already halfway to completion, the presale enables investors to acquire CTK tokens at $0.1 apiece, with the prospect of holders earning 12% yield on their assets. The real gains, however, may come from waiting until the token’s DEX listing, whereupon price discovery should see CTK comfortably pull a few X’s.
There’s a degree of risk to factor in when getting involved with web3 projects that are still at the fundraising stage, but with £15M in assets already secured onchain, ConstructKoin is not having to launch from a cold start. The momentum is there, and judging by social media chatter, so’s the hype. If ReFi takes off, emerging projects such as ConstructKoin, together with established players like Propy, are likely to attract significant institutional capital inflows.
Other RWA sectors are also poised to prosper from this shift away from metals and commodities to more exotic assets that have the potential to generate outsized returns, both in terms of yield and in growth of their protocol tokens. In addition to real estate, keep a close eye on fine art and sports, both of which are tipped to be near the top of the list to receive the RWA treatment, transforming these assets into liquid tokens that are tradable 24/7.
