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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EQX Labs plans to list 11 tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Hyperliquid's order book, backed 1:1 by shares and traded around the clock against USDC. Trading has not started and no launch date is set, so the depth those books will draw is still unknown.
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Tokenized ETFs grew market cap 213% to $686.5 million in 2026, Token Terminal data show. Wallets multiplied about 51-fold over the same period, so the average balance fell from roughly $12,500 to about $765.
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IMF research finds more than 85% of overnight moves in tokenized U.S. stocks show up in the listed shares within five minutes of the open. The fund still wants ownership rules settled before a market this thin grows much larger.
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Tokenized repurchase agreements average $300 billion to $350 billion a day, the IMF said in its October 8 Global Financial Stability Report. Against the $13 trillion a day some analyses cite for US repo, that comes to 2 to 3 percent of the flow, on venues the fund calls fragmented and short of legal clarity.
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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.
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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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XRP Ledger held $1.338 billion in tracked stablecoins on Oct. 7 while its chain fees for the day came to $528, DefiLlama data show. Because fees and reserves scale with transactions and accounts, how much XRP that base needs depends on the inventory that bridges and liquidity pools keep between trades.
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Citrini Research's 79-page report argues fee-collecting platforms and protocols could gain more from tokenization than bitcoin or ether. Even if bitcoin and ether set new highs, the report says, there are better ways to bet on tokenization.
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Ondo Finance launched notes that let eligible non-U.S. investors trade exposure to an unnamed pre-IPO AI company around the clock. Each token is an issuer's promise to pay, so a buyer has to price that counterparty and the thin disclosure around it as well as the company.
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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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Blockchain.com is seeking about $500 million from a US listing at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, below the $7 billion its 2023 round set. The range opens at roughly the $4 billion that secondary trades already imply, so tokenized stocks and prediction markets have to justify every dollar above it.
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Ondo Finance is selling three BlackRock-modelled portfolio tokens issued by a British Virgin Islands entity that alone owes holders anything. A buyer paying for the BlackRock name holds Ondo's paper, and BlackRock's part is limited to designing the allocation.
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Tokenized Treasury and money-market funds rose from $2.99 to $11.39 per $100 of stablecoins in two years, according to Crypto Briefing. Whether three big issuers own most of that growth depends on which estimate of the category's size is right.
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BlackRock's fund is back at roughly $2.8bn, but the pool it leads has grown to $15bn to $16bn. A share that once ran 40% to 46% is now closer to 18%. The title has changed hands twice inside a year.
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Ondo, BlackRock and Securitize pitched OUSG for Sky's roughly $1 billion tokenization allocation, offering 24/7 redemptions capped at $25 million a day. Much of OUSG's money sat in BlackRock's BUIDL fund, so BlackRock manages the underlying Treasuries whether Sky chooses OUSG or BUIDL.
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BlackRock designed three self-rebalancing portfolio tokens for Ondo, whose disclosures say BlackRock neither advises, manages nor distributes them. ONDO rose as much as 30% on a deal with no reported fees or licence terms, so the move prices the brand before any flows.
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Ondo Finance's token rose 18-22% to about $2.4 billion in market value after it launched three portfolio tokens built on BlackRock model strategies. The portfolios' holdings are public onchain, so anyone can check whether investors put money in while the 10-year Treasury yields about 5.14%.
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The SEC's Sept. 17 order lets venues trade tokenized stocks in permissioned AMM pools without registering as exchanges, if the token passes the underlying's dividends and votes to the holder. Robinhood's 200 tokens are Jersey debt paper.
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