Whale investors decided to lock in gains on their Ondo Finance (CRYPTO: ONDO) investments after the real-world asset token's spectacular increase over the last month.

What Happened: On Friday, on-chain analytics firm Spot On Chain spotted two whales depositing millions in ONDO to cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, following the coin's listing on the Korean trading platform, Upbit.

The first whale sent 1.95 million ONDO tokens, worth $2.55 million, and realized a 42% profit. The second whale offloaded 1 million ONDOs, worth $1.31 million, gaining 45% on the sale. This investor still has an additional 1 million stash left with them.

ONDO has been the third best-performing cryptocurrency over the last month, with gains of more than 73%. The rally boosted unrealized profits of holders, as more than 90% of the holders were "in the money" as of this writing, according to IntoTheBlock.

Why It Matters: ONDO is the native token of Ondo Finance, a tokenization project backed by Coinbase. The tokenization of real-world assets i.e, bringing off-chain assets like real estate, bonds, and commodities on the blockchain, has emerged as one of the hottest narratives in Web3

Ondo tokenizes U.S. government treasury bonds and its Short-Term US Government Bond was the third highest in market capitalization in this category of offerings, according to rwa.xyz.

Additionally, the platform has total deposits of $534 million as of this writing, data from DeFiLlama shows, more than doubling year-to-date.

Price Action: The profit-taking seemed to have impacted ONDO as the token slipped 0.48% in the last 24 hours to trade at $1.30 at the time of publication, according to data from Benzinga Pro.

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