DWF Labs says tokenized equities reached $3.8 billion in early October, up 483% since January, as weekly DEX trading rose 55-fold to $2.54 billion. Usage grew faster than value, though only about 8% of the market is deployed in DeFi.
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Franklin Templeton holds about $1.5 billion, or 59.8%, of its roughly $2.55 billion in onchain fund assets on BNB Chain, Crypto Briefing reported. The other nine chains split about $1.03 billion, roughly $114 million each on average.
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Binance is considering offering exposure to Hong Kong, South Korean, Taiwanese and Brazilian stocks, co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune. Tokenized stocks total $3 billion worldwide against $34 trillion traded on Binance in the previous year, Cryptobriefing reported.
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Tokenized US stocks took 99.3% of non-US onchain trading volume in a 30-day period, a total of $14.4 billion, cryptobriefing.com reported. Against an estimated market cap of $3 billion to $4.8 billion, the whole market changed hands three to nearly five times.
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Binance's Bstocks tokenized equities passed $1 billion in assets under management on Oct. 15, about four months after the June 11 launch. The retail case rests on Binance's own usage data, and the reports do not include a holder count.
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Cryptopolitan reports that tokens from the 2024-2026 launch era in the top 100 returned a median of 27.5% while older tokens posted negative returns. The sample describes survivors of one vintage and says little about altcoins as a group.
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Solana accounts for $3.32 billion of the $3.4 billion in weekly tokenized stock DEX volume, Crypto Briefing reported. Robinhood Chain's own early daily average of $29.7 million works out to about $208 million a week, a small slice of the total.
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XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation went live Oct. 8, letting institutions hand specific transaction rights to other accounts without sharing primary keys. Because the grants cannot carry spending limits, institutions keep their own checks on how much a delegate sends.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives65
- Confidence45
Manhattan federal jurors convicted Jonathan Spalletta of computer fraud and money laundering over the $53.3 million Uranium Finance exploit of 2021. Where the roughly $31 million in crypto seized in February 2025 ends up now turns on restitution and forfeiture rulings still to come.
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Outside issuers have tokenized an estimated $314 million to $345 million of Circle's stock, about 1.7% of its market value, Crypto Briefing reported. Token holders are not shareholders of record, so each token's tie to the $80-to-$82 share depends on the firm that wrapped it.
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Crypto card spending rose 33% to $4.31 billion in the third quarter, Cryptopolitan reported. The outlet credits USDC with the growth, though its own September figures suggest the two big stablecoins paid for under half of that spending.
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Wallets holding tokenized commodities rose to 452,931 from about 126,000 a year ago, according to rwa.xyz data. Most of the new arrivals are opening small accounts on cheaper chains, while about 95% of the sector's $5.16 billion stays on Ethereum.
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Researchers Tim Hall and Remo Stieger found protocol logic exploits caused 55% of DeFi flash loan losses from 2022 to mid-2024, up from 28% before. For an investor, diligence on a DeFi position moves from price feeds to the design of the contracts themselves.
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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.
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Ondo Finance launched three tokens that each hold a rebalanced basket of its tokenized stocks and ETFs, using strategies BlackRock designed. Using the tokens as DeFi collateral is so far only a possibility Ondo has named.
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PancakeSwap is giving liquidity providers 90% of Infinity's pool fees on Robinhood Chain and Arc as cumulative volume passes $150 billion. Its own milestones show daily volume since April 2026 averaging about a third below the first year.
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Token Terminal data shows tokenized stocks deposited in DeFi protocols reached $262.4 million, nearly 18 times January's $14.66 million. About half of that total built up in September alone, which is too recent to show whether the deposits will stay.
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Tokenized equities now count 1.4 million holders, up 447.5% in six months. The growth is a distribution story, and the average position is still very small.
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BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain took 88.2% of tracked tokenized-stock volume in September to date, up from 2.3% in June. The surge coincided with a zero-maker-fee campaign on Binance and Robinhood's Stock Tokens launch, so the test comes when maker fees return.
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Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of a 58% turnout, converting ZETA one for one into a Solana SPL token and ending the Layer 1 that Blockchain.com and Jane Street Capital backed at its January 2024 launch.
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Earlier coverage
- ZetaChain puts its own Layer-1's shutdown to a three-day token vote
Invest · September 20, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- OpenEden takes a $2.4bn BNY high-yield strategy to BNB Chain with the shares still at the bank
Invest · September 19, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- SBI buys into a licensed Singapore stablecoin processor at Series A scale
Leadership · September 19, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Iran-linked malware takes its orders from a Bitcoin address once tied to Satoshi
Invest · September 17, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- A 1.00% month puts tokenized RWAs about $4.8 billion behind their 2026 average pace
Invest · September 14, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Tokenized stocks traded through the holiday at half Friday's daily rate
Invest · September 13, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- PancakeSwap mirrored SHEIN's $26.5bn listing within a day of its Hong Kong debut
Invest · September 2, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Robinhood Chain supplied 37% of Uniswap's $70.6 billion trading month
Invest · September 12, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Harmony offers validators nine times its DeFi TVL to switch off its own chain
Invest · September 7, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Symbiosis's attacker turned 2^62 fake syBTC into 4.39 real WBTC
Invest · September 11, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- DeFi's tokenized-stock deposits multiplied 19 times off a base under $4 million
Invest · September 11, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- US Treasury bills hold about a third of the $46.2bn tokenized asset market
Invest · September 11, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Euro stablecoin supply grew 22.6% into a dollar market that added 0.05%
Invest · September 9, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- BNB Chain Holds About a Third of the $3.1bn Tokenized Stock Market Where Binance Launched bStocks
Invest · September 5, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- A fee waiver bought 44% of tokenized equity's record month
Invest · September 2, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- BNB Chain out-trades Robinhood Chain by 23 to one in tokenized equities
Invest · August 30, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Tokenized Treasuries at $13 billion turn on-chain cash into a treasury desk question
Invest · August 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- BounceBit kills its own L1 after $3M Evmos bug, and reissues BB on BNB Chain
Invest · August 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Check Point finds 2,000 hacked WordPress sites doing the hosting for a crypto-stealing toolkit
Invest · August 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Ondo's tokenized stock book passes $1B, and the collateral is the story
Invest · August 18, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Tokenized funds reach $611.5M, and distribution is now the only scarce input
Invest · August 16, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- CZ is walking away from a wallet to break the airdrop-to-CZ trade
Invest · August 16, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Tokenized stocks hit 4.34% of DEX volume, and the leaderboard already needs an asterisk
Invest · August 15, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Solana added $378M in tokenized Treasuries while the whole market grew about $289M
Invest · August 15, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- BSC gives node operators until 02:30 UTC on August 25 to be running v1.7.7
Invest · August 14, 2026 · One report1 publisher