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Binance Research

Research arm of the Binance crypto exchange, which publishes market data and analysis on digital assets.

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Tokenized stock SPVs cluster in Jersey, the BVI and Abu Dhabi, with Jersey holding $651 million of the $2.93 billion market

Large issuers led by Ondo, Kraken's xStocks and Binance bStocks hold about 81% of $2.93 billion in tokenized stocks via offshore SPVs, RWA.xyz data shows. A holder's claim runs to the vehicle and not to the company behind the share, so issuer, custodian and governing law become part of what the buyer owns.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption40
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
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Securitize's SECZ has taken in more since July than BNB Chain's lead in tokenized stocks

Tokenized stocks hit a record $3.8 billion, beating the top of a $3.5 billion to $3.7 billion forecast, with BNB Chain holding the largest share. Its lead over Ethereum in earlier snapshots was $170 million to $350 million, close enough for one issuer's flows to reverse.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption30
Hype gap+20
Incentives50
Confidence40
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Binance Research puts bitcoin's 47% rebound in a group of rallies that failed four times in five

Binance Research says four of five past bitcoin rallies that started this far below the prior high later broke their cycle lows. A repeat from CoinGecko's latest $85,988 price would mean a fall of nearly 33%, to below July's $57,800.

Publishers:crypto.news

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
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Binance Research's 2030 base case asks tokenized stocks to grow 79-fold from $4.43 billion

Binance Research projects tokenized equities at $349 billion by 2030 in its base case, up from $4.43 billion on-chain as of September 15. Its low and high cases, $61 billion and $987 billion, sit sixteen times apart, so the base case is one guess inside a very wide range.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption18
Hype gap+45
Incentives65
Confidence55
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Kakao Pay Securities and Dinari test one-to-one tokens backed by Korea Exchange shares

Kakao Pay Securities and Dinari are testing whether Korea Exchange shares can reach overseas buyers, chiefly in the U.S., as one-to-one backed tokens. Each token needs a real Korean share behind it in custody, so the trial mostly tests how those shares are sourced and held.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption10
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
investConfirmed2 publishers

Cboe locks up S&P 500 index options through 2051 with a 25-year licence renewal

Cboe renewed its exclusive S&P 500 options licence with S&P Dow Jones Indices to 2051, keeping a market that traded a record 970.6 million contracts in 2025. The tokenized-options language in the 25-year deal commits neither firm to a product, so the value anyone can count today sits in the existing contract.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption50
Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence60
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Tokenized stocks grew fivefold to $4.43 billion before the SEC introduced its exemption

Tokenized stocks hit $4.43 billion by Sept. 15, up 390% this year per Binance Research, two days before the SEC introduced its exemption. About 7.5% of it is deployed on-chain, and the first US venue is expected as early as the fourth quarter.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption20
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
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Traders hold $79.27m of open interest in an Anthropic contract quoted at $2,147

Open interest in cash-settled Anthropic perpetuals has reached $79.27 million, with more than $20 million trading in a day, against a company that told the SEC in June it had not fixed a share count or a price.

Publishers:cryptoslate.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption56
Hype gap+32
Incentives74
Confidence46
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Three of August's five crypto leaders turned negative on the seven-day window

DeFiLlama's Movers dashboard still has ZEC, HYPE, UNI, XRP and SOL ahead of Bitcoin over 30 days. Over seven days three of the five are negative, with the ten-year near 4.93% and September hike odds around 60%.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption25
Hype gap+18
Incentives65
Confidence40
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Tokenized stocks now turn over their whole $4bn float almost four times a month

Binance Research data has onchain equity volume up roughly 33 times since January while the asset base grew about four times. One platform, bStocks, handles around 90% of the flow.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption55
Hype gap+28
Incentives65
Confidence42