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When real-world assets (RWAs) finally became the crypto industry’s narrative du jour, Sunny Lu, the founder and CEO of VeChain, could only smile. “I mean, we were doing this back in 2017,” Lu told CoinDesk in an interview ahead of Consensus 2025 in Toronto. “Back then, no one cared about RWAs.” Back then—eons in crypto years—some of the projects VeChain was involved with were a dairy traceability project in China, working with Walmart China on food safety, and tokenizing carbon credits in 2018 with BYD as it was transforming from a regional car brand to an up-and-coming global giant. “We were ahead of our time,” Lu continued. VeChain defined a category that TradFi giants like BlackRock are now building into their brand. Now it’s time for the protocol’s next act. At Consensus Toronto, Lu will deliver a keynote titled “Real Decentralization for Mass Adoption,” outlining VeChain’s new approach to scaling RWAs and blockchain use beyond the crypto-native crowd. A roadmap that involves turning human behavior itself into a tokenizable asset and bridges crypto’s usability gap with AI agents and NFT-based staking. Tokenizing human behavior VeChain wants to turn everyday actions like recycling or driving an EV into something measurable and valuable on-chain. By linking real-world behavior to blockchain rewards through tools like VeBetterDAO and Tesla integrations, it’s creating a new class of tokenized assets, making sustainability measurable and incentivized on-chain. “We’re not just tokenizing big assets,” Lu said. “We’re tokenizing the invisible ones that didn’t have market value before.” Lu calls this “tokenizing human behavior,” a concept VeChain first explored in 2019 as a prototype through its partnership with BYD, where it tracked EV mileage to generate carbon credits. AI Agents for the Web 2 Crowd But real-world value doesn’t matter if people can’t access it. Crypto remains intimidating for…

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