Tokenized asset price history
Daily candles of the perpetual contract on the underlying, with the token's own price laid over them when both exist. Two prices for one asset, on the same axis.
What is it?
The same real-world asset can exist in two forms on chain: a backed wrapper, representing the security, and a perpetual contract, replicating its price without holding it. This chart carries both on the same axis. The daily candles come from the perpetual contract: each summarises a day by its open, high, low and close. The overlaid line is the wrapper's price, sampled at the same rhythm. Where only one of the two forms exists, only that one is drawn, and the absence of the other is visible rather than filled in. Before our first continuous collection, the token line extends with the history the source publishes for it, sometimes older than the perpetual contract itself. That extension is drawn dashed: it comes from a different origin than our readings, and the two never overlap.
How to read
A green candle indicates a close above the open, a red one the reverse; the wicks give the range travelled during the day. A long wick against a short body describes a session where price moved and came back, that is, absorption. The token line reads against the candles, not on its own. When it hugs the bodies, arbitrage between the two forms works. When it departs from them durably, a friction exists, and its precise measure reads on the token / perpetual spread. Logarithmic scale is available: over a long history it makes moves of equal percentage comparable at different price levels.
Key zones
The zones where the token line and the candles separate are the most informative. A gap that appears then closes within a few sessions describes a temporary friction, often tied to a closure of the reference market. A gap that persists beyond describes a structural constraint: inability to create or redeem units, or a book too thin to bring prices back. Zones where only candles exist indicate the wrapper was not yet issued, or no longer quoted. These are information gaps, not zero prices, and must not be read as a fall. Conversely, a token line without candles describes the period before the perpetual contract was born: the wrapper already existed, its synthetic twin did not yet.
What to observe
Watch behaviour around reference market closures. A perpetual contract quotes continuously; a backed wrapper follows the security's opening hours. Weekends and public holidays therefore produce stretches where one moves and the other does not, with no anomaly involved. Watch too sessions with long wicks and no follow-through: they describe level tests absorbed by the book. On a young and shallow market they are more frequent than on a mature one and do not carry the same information.
Historical context
Perpetual contracts were born on digital asset markets as a way to replicate an exposure without expiry or delivery. Their extension to traditional underlyings is recent and rests on venues that declare their own markets, with their own settlement rules. That youth has a practical consequence: the history available for a given underlying starts on the date its venue listed it, not at the birth of the security itself. A short history says nothing about the maturity of the underlying company, only about that of its on-chain market.
Expert notes
The candles come from a single venue. The same underlying listed on several venues will therefore have several histories, close but not identical, and the gap between them measures liquidity segmentation. The token price is a reading, not a continuous quote. Within a day, the wrapper may have departed further than the line shows: the chart describes each day's close, not the wrapper's intraday range. No dividend adjustment is applied. On a distributing security, part of the gap between the two forms is explained by the treatment of the distribution, which differs depending on whether the wrapper passes it on, capitalises it or ignores it.
Common mistakes to avoid
Reading the perpetual contract's price as the share price is the main mistake: the contract carries no security and its price results from participants' positioning as much as from the underlying. Interpreting a gap in the token line as a fall is a second: a missing point means a missing quote, not a zero price. Finally, comparing two assets on this chart without switching to logarithmic scale overweights the one whose nominal price is higher.
Programmatic access
MCP server
{
"tool": "get_chart_value",
"metric_id": "rwa-asset-price-history",
"timeframe": "1y"
}Required tier: pro. See the pricing grid for the tier list and the MCP documentation for multi-client configuration.
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