Tokenized Stocks Hit Record $3.5B, Up 860% in a Year
Rapid growth is putting on-chain equities in focus, but the rights attached to a stock token remain central to assessing it.
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Rapid growth is putting on-chain equities in focus, but the rights attached to a stock token remain central to assessing it.
Tokenized shares of Apple, Tesla, and commodities like oil and gold are now usable as margin on a 24/7 perp venue, a structural step for real-world assets meeting on-chain derivatives.
A tokenized stock is usually a structured note, not a share. You get the price exposure but not the share itself, and that gap hides issuer, redemption, and legal risks most users miss.
The headline number is the 314% YTD cap jump, but the more durable signal is consolidation: bStocks and Robinhood now run 87.8% of tracked issuer volume after holding 0.8% three months ago.
Combining tokenized equity exposure, collateral and perpetuals on one platform brings the basis trade into a single venue.
Tokenized $STRC — Strategy's perpetual preferred stock carrying an 11.5% annual dividend — is now live on Ethereum, BNB…
XAUT and PAXG dropped from nearly 100% to 68% of tokenized assets in a year, with stocks and ETFs absorbing the rest as centralized exchanges roll out retail equity products.
The asset class is still a rounding error against TradFi, but the compounding rate is now the story: five onchain categories are pulling real capital migration.
The New York Stock Exchange is taking steps to enable trading of tokenized securities on its platform alongside…
Distribution, not TVL, is the headline: NEAR's chain-abstraction layer lets $NVDAON, $TSLAON, and $SPYON reach wallets on chains that do not natively carry Ondo.
BNB Chain, Ethereum and Solana now hold roughly 70% of the tokenized equity market, a sign the RWA race is consolidating around a small set of high-throughput chains.
Crypto-linked issuers dominating on-chain equity tokenization suggests the RWA equity thesis remains reflexive, driven by crypto-native demand for synthetic exposure to crypto-native firms.
Gate ranks among the top CEXs for tokenized stocks. Its new Gate Stocks product gives users direct ownership of US, HK, and Korean shares, with dividends, through licensed brokers.
With $2.8B in total market cap and RWA transfer volume doubling to $20B in August, tokenized stocks are becoming the retail gateway into onchain finance.
Tokenized stocks have topped $3B in onchain value, while Securitize’s model links blockchain-based tokens to underlying shares, shareholder rights and dividends.
Ondo Finance has added proxy voting rights for holders of its tokenized equity products, which collectively represent…
A single quarter of tokenized equity trading outpaced the prior six months, and tokenized gold has already cleared its full-year 2025 total — the RWA thesis is no longer hypothetical flow.
BNB Chain, Ethereum and Solana control around 70% of the market, showing how tokenized equity activity is concentrating across a small group of networks.
BTC slides under $63K as KOSPI craters and longs get liquidated, yet ICE-OKX and a flood of stablecoin rails keep the institutional bid very much alive.
DTCC tokenization, a $96M ETH ETF day, and a quiet CPI miss collide with stablecoin margin compression and a $23M RWA exploit.