UN: 2.2 Billion People Still Offline, Digital Divide May Widen

The report reframes the digital divide from a coverage problem to an affordability and quality problem, which matters for any tokenized or RWA market that assumes a globally reachable user base. The roughly 2.2 billion offline represent a structural ceiling on adoption, not a temporary gap, and the UN's call for fiscal space and inclusive governance signals that connectivity is being treated as infrastructure policy rather than a private-sector rollout. Whether targeted action materializes, or the divide widens alongside accelerating digital finance, is the open question.