Plume Vaults settles over $600M in real-world asset volume

Tokenizing real-world assets has been a recurring promise in crypto for years, mostly delivered in press releases. Plume Vaults is starting to put actual numbers on the board.

The flagship yield product of Plume Network has now settled over $600 million in real-world asset volume, with independent trackers placing cumulative volume as high as $738.5 million. For a product that rebranded from Nest Vaults not long ago and operates on a mainnet that only launched in 2025, that figure is worth paying attention to.

What Plume Vaults actually does

The vaults consolidate assets like US Treasuries, private credit, and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) into non-custodial, yield-generating vault tokens. Those tokens accrue value automatically, meaning holders do not need to manually claim or reinvest returns.

The underlying assets are the kind that, until recently, were accessible only to pension funds and family offices. Private credit and CLOs typically sit behind accreditation requirements and minimum commitments that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Plume wraps them into tokens that anyone with a wallet can hold.

Reported yields run up to approximately 20% APY across the diversified portfolio of tokenized assets. The mechanism here is different from inflationary token emissions or circular DeFi incentives: yields are derived from actual cash flows generated by the underlying credit instruments.

The vaults are live across Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and BNB Chain, in addition to Plume’s own network.

The ether.fi allocation and what it signals

In June 2026, ether.fi directed $100 million into a Plume RWA vault called nBASIS. ether.fi manages billions in TVL across its restaking and yield platform, making it one of the larger players in the liquid staking and restaking sector.

The total value locked across Plume Vaults currently sits between $150 million and $182 million. That TVL figure, combined with the settled volume numbers, suggests a product with meaningful throughput relative to its locked capital, indicating regular deployment and redemption activity rather than passive capital sitting idle.

Regulatory footing and the broader RWA picture

Plume Network holds licenses from the Bermuda Monetary Authority and has obtained SEC transfer agent approval, a relatively rare credential in the tokenized asset space.

The platform has accumulated over 195,000 RWA holders, a figure that captures both retail participants and the institutional allocators routing capital through integrated DeFi applications.

BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, Franklin Templeton’s on-chain money market product, and several competing Layer 2 projects have all staked out territory in the tokenized securities space. What distinguishes Plume’s positioning is the emphasis on yield-bearing credit products rather than purely cash-equivalent instruments like tokenized Treasuries, and the deliberate expansion across multiple chains rather than staying siloed on a single network.

The $738.5 million in cumulative volume is not a TVL figure, it represents actual settlement activity through the vaults. That distinction matters because settled volume reflects real economic activity, not just capital parked to capture a yield or a points program.