Real-world asset (RWA) adoption has been largely attributed to regulation, but the industry is increasingly seeing the need for synchronization to align on-chain state with off-chain reality across time, jurisdictions, and systems. Tokenizing a bond or building is now relatively straightforward, but making that digital claim behave like a real financial asset with enforceable rights, deadlines, and dispute resolution is still a challenge. Synchronization is essential for RWAs to function, as it requires maintaining a single, immutable ‘golden record’ for legally significant events, such as property deeds, invoice payments, or NAV updates. However, legal enforceability often fails in tokenized markets, as many teams rush to sell tokens before completing the legal stack. Synchronization requires respecting the cadence of property law, lien registration, and dispute processes. Privacy is also a crucial aspect of synchronization, as public blockchains were built on transparency, but in regulated markets, full transparency is often a blocker. In traditional finance, synchronized ledgers already exist, but DeFi has no equivalents yet. Tokenization will remain a surface-level achievement until it builds them, and the promise of programmable assets will stall not on regulation but on coordination. The irony is that regulation may now be the easy part, but synchronization of provable time, cross-chain event logic, enforceable legal state, and selective disclosure is the harder frontier. Solving this will allow RWAs to move from being tokenized to being truly usable.