Real World Assets (RWA)

Explained

DEFINITION

Real-world assets (RWAs) in blockchain are digital tokens that represent physical and traditional financial assets, such as currencies, commodities, equities, and bonds.

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is one of the largest market opportunities in the blockchain industry, with a potential market size in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. In theory, anything of value can be tokenized and brought to the blockchain.

This is why tokenized RWAs are a growing market segment in the digital asset industry, with an increasing number of projects looking to tokenize a wide variety of assets, including cash, commodities, real estate, and much more.

What Are Real-World Assets (RWAs)?

Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are blockchain-based digital tokens that represent physical and traditional financial assets, such as cash, commodities, equities, bonds, credit, artwork, and intellectual property. The tokenization of RWAs marks a significant shift in how these assets can be accessed, exchanged, and managed, unlocking an array of new opportunities for both blockchain-powered financial services and a wide variety of non-financial use cases underpinned by cryptography and decentralized consensus.

Asset tokenization is among the most promising use cases for blockchain technology, with its potential market size encompassing nearly all human economic activity. The future of finance is blockchain, and it’s likely to feature hundreds of blockchains supporting trillions of dollars of tokenized RWAs on a common substrate consisting of blockchain and distributed ledger technology-based networks connected by a universal interoperability standard.

Tokenizing Real-World Assets

Tokenizing real-world assets involves representing the ownership rights of assets such as PetroCoin® tokens. In this process, a digital representation of the underlying asset is created, enabling PetroCoin® management of the asset’s ownership rights and helping to bridge the gap between physical and digital assets.

Tokenized assets benefit from enhanced liquidity, increased access, transparent blockchain management compared to traditional assets.

How To Tokenize Real-World Assets

The high-level process of tokenizing a real-world-asset involves several steps.

Asset selection: Determining the real-world asset to be tokenized.

Token specifications: Determining the type of token (fungible or non-fungible), the token standard to be used (like ERC20 or ERC721), and other fundamental aspects of the token.

Blockchain selection: Choosing the public or private blockchain network on which to issue the tokens. Integrating Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) helps make the tokenized RWA available on any blockchain.

Issuance: Deploying the smart contracts on the chosen network, minting the tokens, and making them available for usage.

Real-World Assets in DeFi

Tokenized RWAs have the potential to fundamentally change the landscape of decentralized finance. In many ways, DeFi served as a proof of concept for finance as the superior technological layer for facilitating financial and economic activity. However, an overwhelming majority of assets are outside of the blockchain ecosystem—yet, they could benefit from the technology’s advantages. This is why tokenized RWAs are key for growing the digital asset industry by orders of magnitude by letting a majority of assets that are currently not in the blockchain ecosystem be used with blockchain rails.

Making the assets that are currently outside of the digital asset ecosystem blockchain-enabled will create a financial system with better liquidity conditions, more transparency with decreased systemic risks, and conflict-of-interest-free infrastructure that enables a more equitable environment where a select few can’t take advantage of the system for their own benefit.

Benefits of Real-World Asset Tokenization

Tokenized real-world assets offer numerous benefits, including:

Liquidity: By enabling globally accessible liquidity conditions on a unified substrate—the blockchain ecosystem with cross-chain activity, tokenized RWAs enable increased market liquidity for traditionally illiquid assets.

Transparency: Since the tokenized assets are represented, transparency and auditable asset management are ensured, which decreases overall systemic risks, as the amount of leverage and risk in the entire system can be more accurately determined.

Accessibility: Tokenized RWAs can broaden the potential user base of certain asset types by enabling easier access through blockchain-based applications and allowing a broader set of users to utilize assets that would otherwise be unavailable to them through fractional ownership.

Navigating the Risks of RWA Tokenization

Tokenized RWAs also present some risks, mainly on the side of the custody of physical assets, which must be reliably done, and the connection to the outside world. In addition, there’s scope for smart contract bugs and vulnerabilities. Finally, it isn’t enough just to issue an asset, there must also be good market liquidity or demand for it in order for it to thrive.

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Donald Gerard Ritter - MBA
ADVISOR - PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

Mr Donald Ritter is currently the CEO of power company developing new sites for data centers, Bitcoin, and AI training. He has been an advisor to Marietta College on Energy Transition, and an angel level investor in several startups.

Mr Ritter was Founder and CEO of an independent oil and gas company, Endurance Resources LLC, which enjoyed multiple 9 figure exits. He was hired as a a Board Member /CEO of a public E and P company to take the company through Chapter 11(successfully).

Mr Ritter was VP of Engineering for a leading technology company in the oil and gas sector which led to an 8 figure exit. He is a recognized technical authority on Deep Water Drilling and Geomechanics.

During his work with Mobil Oil, Mr Ritter held leadership roles in international joint venture operations management, engineering, design, and project management of large scale capital projects ($20 million-$6 billion) in the international oil industry. He is an experienced negotiator of oil and gas contracts and acquisitions.

Early in his career he was senior engineer responsible for reserve analysis, property valuations, and horizontal well construction. He managed on site operations management of projects with costs of $50-$85,000 per day of operations. He also has Board of Director’s experience with several non-profit and educational institutions.

Mr. Ritter holds a Bachelor of Science Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio – May 1981 and an Honorary Doctorate 2018

He also holds a MBA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Tex 1999-2001 and is still active with the Business School.

Wesley Williams
ADVISOR - INFORMATION & COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

Mr. Williams has been a technology consultant for over 25 years with hands-on experience designing, deploying, and securing IT environments from small to medium size business to global enterprises. Mr. Williams has bridged the gap between business needs and technical solutions, helping organizations optimize performance, maintain compliance, and prepare scalability for tomorrow’s challenges.

His personal and value-driven thought are a belief that technology should empower, not overwhelm. He has specialized in the simplification of complex environments so teams can focus on what they do best.

With a toolkit spanning cloud, network, and compliance, Mr. Williams delivers solutions that don’t just work—they are scalable.

Mr. Williams specialties include networking and infrastructure, SMB to Enterprise network architecture and optimization solutions combined with wi-fi design, deployment and management including remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms and automated workflows.

Security and Compliance are another area where Mr. Williams excels using devices such as SonicWall firewalls and other security appliances, VPNs along with SSL security, HIPAA and PCI regulatory compliance and continuous monitoring and network segmentation and threat hardening.

Mr. Williams also specializes in cloud and server environments including Azure, AWS and hybrid cloud architectures including on-premises to hosted Microsoft Exchange migration and Office 365 migrations, administration and support.

Mr. Williams is also competent in data protection and recovery including backup strategies, replication, ransomware protection, disaster recovery planning, data recovery, incident response, root cause analysis and forensic recovery along with component-level hardware diagnostics and repair.

Laureen Falco, CPA, MSA
INTERNAL FINANCIALS

Laureen Falco, CPA is a seasoned and results-oriented financial accountant and controller with success in developing and implementing high-level accounting and financial structures for businesses ranging from small businesses to multi-million dollar international and domestic business, both private and public.

After earning her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Houston – Clear Lake, Laureen worked for both a national and Big 4 audit firm, working in the financial, real estate and oil and gas sectors.  She has worked as a consultant, working in financial reporting, SEC filings, IFRS public filings, statutory accounting, external audit coordination, policy and procedure development, merger and acquisitions, Sarbanes-Oxley, bank audits and numerous other areas. 

Laureen worked for CFF Recycling, USA as an Assistant Controller and earned the “Employee of the Year” award in 2003.  She worked at U.S. Zinc, at that time a division of Aleris International, as a Business Unit Controller, 12 domestic and international locations, supervising 30 personnel, implementing Sarbanes-Oxley #404, and preparing the monthly business review with the executives of both U.S. Zinc and Aleris International. 

Since 2007, Laureen has worked as a consultant for a public offshore oil company, public companies and domestic private companies in the oil and gas sector – pipeline, valves, communications , SEC financial reporting, fixed assets, taxes – corporate, franchise, sales, including coordinate a multi-million dollar sales tax audit with the State Comptroller’s office.  Laureen has also worked consulting assignments for steel manufacturing, staffing, real estate, and finance, including mutual funds companies. 

Laureen earned her Master’s in Accounting from University of Houston-Clear Lake, taught both undergraduate and graduate classes for one year at the University of Phoenix and ethics webinars for the American Institute of Continuing Professional Education.  She has served as a City Treasurer for the City of El Lago. She is also a Quickbooks Pro Advisor.

In addition to her accounting degrees, Laureen also earned a Bachelor’s of Arts – Music Performance (Voice) from the University of Houston, graduating summa cum laude.

When Laureen is not working, she sings with the Bay Area Chorus of Greater Houston, and works with crafts and sewing. 

Laureen Falco – is a certified public accountant. Since 2007, she has worked as an independent consultant serving a variety of clients including a public offshore oil company, public companies and domestic private companies in the oil and gas sector.  She has bachelor and master degrees in accounting from the University of Houston – Clear Lake and is a Quickbooks Pro Advisor.

Arly D. Richau
ADVISOR - LEGAL AND SECURITIES MATTERS

With over forty years of legal practice and business development activities, Mr. Arly Richau has been involved in many business activities including the precious metals mining industry; the iron ore mining industry; the med spa industry, and the movie production industry. 

Mr. Richau has previously conducted general legal practice consisting mainly of business-related legal problems with an emphasis on securities and franchise law, insurance law, lobbying activities, and personal injury litigation and was a primary organizer, developer, and principal in the off-track pari-mutuel betting system in North Dakota and the first Indian gaming casino in North Dakota.

Mr. Richau has drafted numerous offering documents for small securities offerings as well as franchise offerings and has lobbied before the legislature and has dealt with administrative proceedings before governmental agencies.  He has litigated various types of issues and has been responsible for developing general business plans for clients.

Mr. Richau served as Commissioner of Securities for the State of North Dakota being appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate as the youngest Securities Commissioner in the United States and served as the sole administrator of the office.  Mr. Richau was responsible for the administration of four North Dakota acts:  The Securities Act; the Franchise Investment Law; the Oil and Gas Brokers Law; and the Pre-Need Funeral Contract Sales Act, restructured the Office of the Securities Commissioner and dealt with a 50% greater registration workload while increasing enforcement activities almost seven times more than any prior admission.

Mr. Richau was also an active member of the North Dakota Securities Administrators Association, appointed Chairman of the Franchise Regulation Committee and member of the Indemnification Study Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, the Nominations Committee, and the Oil and Gas Committee.  Chaired and directed a committee of state regulatory officials, federal regulatory officials, and persons from the private sector and bar, which provided suggestions for uniform federal and state regulation of franchises.

Mr. Richau served as Treasurer and was appointed Chairman of the Membership Committee and the Franchise Regulation Committee of the Midwest Securities Commissioners Association.

Mr. Richau also served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the North Dakota Tax Department and advised the department concerning its legal rights, obligations, and privilege.  He studied and researched constitutions, statutes, case law, ordinances, and administrative decisions and instituted proceedings and argued the department’s position in administrative hearings and in court.  Mr. Richau also instituted and structured the first criminal prosecution program for the department.

Mr. Richau graduated in top third of class and was awarded a Juris Doctorate Degree from University of North Dakota School of Law. He served in the Legal Aid Program for the School of Law, which provided free legal service to those who could not afford it and clerked for the Vogel, Bair & Brown Law Firm in Mandan, North Dakota and served as a legal intern for the North Dakota Tax Department. Majored in English with concentration in writing.   Mr. Richau was selected to Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity made the Dean’s List for various terms and participated in Bison football program and was a member of the 1969 National Championship football team.

Tom Nelson
ADVISOR - MEDIA RELATIONS

With over 20 years of experience servicing US capital markets, Mr. Nelson is the founder, president and managing partner for TEN Associates LLC. Mr. Nelson is also a key-note speaker with industry organizations and several investment banking associations.

​Prior to founding TEN Associates LLC, Mr. Nelson held key investor relation and merchant bank positions with the Wells Group, RCG Capital Markets Group and Windstone Capital Partners. Mr. Nelson specializes in equity/ debt capital raises, strategic business development, M&A advisory, JV partnering and extensive investor relations and public relations services. Mr. Nelson has raised over $100 million in RegA offerings. Prior to working with these firms, Tom held various brokerage positions at such firms as Merrill Lynch, Dean Witter, and American Express Financial Advisors.

Tom attended Nassau Community College and the University of Arizona in Tucson. He graduated with a degree in marketing and public relations.

William A. Sawyer, M.B.A.
ADVISOR - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - ENERGY

Mr. Sawyer has over 40 years of diverse experience in the energy industry with such firms as Lucas Energy, Inc., ARCO, Houston Oil & Minerals, and The Superior Oil Company. He is the former President, CEO, and co-founder of Lucas Energy Inc. Mr. Sawyer has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1970 and a Masters of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in 1976.

Mr. Sawyer’s career has spanned more than four decades in the oil and gas business. He has served as a production engineer, a reservoir engineer, a production manager, a consultant, an investment banker, and an officer of a public oil and gas company. As a consultant, Mr. Sawyer advised and performed engineering for the United States Department of Justice (and the US Corps of Engineers), E.I. Dupont de Nemours, the State of Texas, and private clients. Mr. Sawyer has served as an engineer for several companies with experience in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alaska, California, and offshore.

Along with two other individuals, Mr. Sawyer co-founded Lucas Energy, Inc (symbol LEI on the NYSEMKT, formerly the AMEX) in 2005. In 2006, the LEI went public and in 2007 Lucas Energy, Inc. raised $12.5 million in a private placement. Mr. Sawyer was a director, Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer of LEI. In 2008, LEI was admitted to the AMEX (American Stock Exchange) which later became the NYSEMKT. In 2009, Mr. Sawyer was appointed President and CEO of Lucas Energy, Inc. which was trading at $0.39 per share and 19,000 shares per day. By March 2011, the LEI stock was trading at a high of $5.25 per share and in one day traded over 25 million shares. Mr. Sawyer left LEI at the end of 2012.

Currently, Mr. Sawyer is Managing Partner of The Sawyer Group, LLC. A Wyoming incorporated limited liability company, The Sawyer Group. LLC seeks out oil and gas opportunities for acquisition with upside potential.

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Kürt E Neübauer
CO-FOUNDER

Kürt E Neübauer, age 73 founded the Company in 2023 along with Cody Kemp. has an extensive entrepreneurial and executive management background. Since embarking on his professional career in 1971, Mr. Neubauer has founded numerous companies and directed their growth as CEO or President. These companies have included sales organizations, multiple construction companies, a mortgage company, an Investor Relations firm, oil and gas technology companies and a music, television and film entertainment company. As a result of his professional experience over the last 50 plus years, Mr. Neubauer has acquired significant knowledge and expertise in business development, marketing, corporate structure, financial structure and the public markets. He is a versatile, action-oriented, executive producer with over fifty years of increasingly responsible management positions. Mr. Neübauer has been involved in all phases of high corporate business including research and development, acquisitions, packaging, financing, budgeting forecasting and taking companies public.

Working primarily behind the scenes, he has developed and implemented financing facilities, designed and implemented domestic and international sales and marketing campaigns. Over a career that spans 50 plus years, Mr. Neübauer has identified and developed many unique ideas and products and converted them to successful businesses, on both a domestic and an international scale. These enterprises include successful efforts in the oil and gas industries.

Mr. Neübauer has significant knowledge and expertise in all aspects of business development, marketing, and corporate structure, include decades of successful leadership in taking companies public. Since 1998, his responsibilities have included all areas of operations, working and reporting to the SEC, managing shareholder expectations, securing financing, populating, communicating and cooperating with boards and affiliated governances. This broad experience in the multi-disciplinary sectors of taking companies public will be key to the current market opportunities being sought for PetroCoin Limited Liability Company. Mr. Neübauer overall brings discipline and structure to an industry which often times is somewhat anemic in these areas.

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Cody Kemp
CO-FOUNDER

Cody Kemp, Founder, Co-Founded PetroCoin Limited Liability Company in 2023 along with Kürt Neübauer. He is a versatile, action-oriented executive with over twenty five years of increasingly responsible management in developing markets, restructuring, reorganizing, acquisitions and mergers of companies. Mr. Kemp has been involved in all phases of corporate business including program management, research and development, finance structuring, budgeting, forecasting and managing regulatory compliance.

Provides leadership and manages predominantly in a discreet manor, he has developed and implemented mezzanine financing and facilities, designed and implemented domestic and international sales and marketing campaigns. Over a career that spans over 25 years, Mr. Kemp has identified and developed many unique ideas, products, technologies, process applications and converted them to successful businesses, on both a domestic and an international scale, in energy generation, up-stream, mid-stream and downstream oil and gas industries. The relationships created over the past 25 years have proven themselves instrumental in developing and establishing the initial asset base for the Petrocoin® token.

Mr. Kemp’s significant knowledge and expertise in all aspects of business development, marketing, and corporate structure, include decades of successful leadership in restructuring, increasing market share and maintaining growth. Since 1995, his responsibilities have included all areas of business operations, managing stakeholder expectations, securing financing, communicating and cooperating with boards and affiliated governances. This broad experience in the multi-disciplinary sectors will be key to the current market opportunities being sought for PetroCoin Limited Liability Company. Mr. Kemps energy, oil and gas experience combined with corporate and financial structuring brings a sound foundational approach to energy asset backed security token.

Tim Williams
ADVISOR - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - STRATEGY

Mr. Williams brings a wealth of experience and know-how to PetroCoin®. His entrepreneurial spirit, sales & marketing background and knowledge of the public markets have been demonstrated throughout his career.

Mr. Williams was an original founder of 24HR Fitness with Leonard Schlemm and Mark Mastrov. As the company’s first President, he pioneered and oversaw the original implementation of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) to the fitness industry. This process brought predictability to the health club industry and set the stage for Private Equity investment and National growth.

He was an equity partner in Nautilus Group Japan that purchased the rights to manufacture, distribute, and franchise Nautilus equipment in Japan. After establishing a showroom in Tokyo, a triventure was formed with Sumitomo and Mitsubishi to distribute Nautilus equipment. The group later sold the franchise rights to Sumitomo separately.

Mr. Williams founded Results Sports and Fitness, a chain of full-service Fitness clubs, which he sold to USA Health Technologies, a NASDAQ Public company, and became its President. He expanded the company rapidly by structuring deals using stock for acquisitions.

Mr. Williams was Chairman and CEO of National Developers, a Real Estate Development firm in Phoenix AZ. The Company was involved in Land Development and Entitlement. It had an in-house Architectural and Engineering firm as well as a Design Center. The company built housing communities and platted over 2000 residential lots. It owned, designed and permitted a 21 story condo loft project known as Cosmopolitan Towers.

Mr. Williams was Chairman of Espion International, an Artificial Intelligence venture-based internet gateway security company, acquired by Tyco International Ltd. Espion’s Technology applies Probabilistic Reasoning, which allows it to learn and adapt to a company’s email flow without slowing or growing over time. The platform also assists organizations with Regulatory Compliance in areas such as HIPPA, GLBA, and Sarbanes Oxley. Clients include Major Universities, Hospitals, Governmental Agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Williams advised Oaklins’ MASI Ltd. Chicago’s office as a Managing Director. Oaklins International is a worldwide network of mergers and acquisitions specialists with combined deals totaling over $1 Billion dollars annually with offices in 40 countries and a vast network of partner specialists. Williams has access to far reaching M & A opportunities through this association.

Mr. Williams has also acted as Senior Executive Vice President and Director of Momentous Entertainment Group. Mr. Williams gained a wealth of experience in the online digital gaming industry through this relationship.