theStreet published a piece on the shift happening in global finance infrastructure & @EthraShip is one of the projects they highlighted. what stands out isn't the technology itself. Ethra's CEO, Saeed Al-Marri, made the point that what's actually changing is access ownership, settlement & compliance now running on the same digital infrastructure, removing layers of friction that have existed for decades. for context the individual vessels they're tokenizing run $30-$120 million each an asset class that's historically only been accessible to institutional-scale capital. but what I find most honest about the CEO's statement is he doesn't sugarcoat the risk. he openly acknowledges legal certainty remains the biggest open question whether digital ownership records actually hold up in court is something most jurisdictions haven't had to test yet. he also sets a clear bar the projects that win long-term in RWA will be the ones tokenizing institutional-grade, cash-flowing assets backed by solid legal certainty not the ones that just go viral first. that's what separates this from typical marketing talk. the CEO himself is setting a high bar for the industry, including his own project. that kind of transparency is rare in an RWA space that's usually just noise about TVL numbers.