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xStocks is a line of tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs issued by Backed Finance, distributed via Kraken and usable across DeFi venues.
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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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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Dubai's VARA granted Kraken parent Payward full market approval on October 12, 2026, covering retail, professional and institutional clients. Kraken can start serving UAE clients in the coming weeks, with spot and margin pairs priced in dirhams.
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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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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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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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BNY is in talks with Kraken parent Payward, valued at $21 billion when Nasdaq invested, over a custody, trading and payments partnership, CoinDesk reported. Nothing is signed. One source compares the talks to the infrastructure half of Payward's Nasdaq agreement.
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Malwarebytes found 70 sites cloning Kraken's xStocks, Pendle and other crypto projects to push a fake rewards vote that opens a wallet prompt. The targets, it says, are projects whose users are used to hearing about rewards and allocations.
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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 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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The cheque is small enough to read as a partnership fee, and it arrives with a surveillance contract, a 2027 token launch date, and a quarter in which Payward's adjusted EBITDA fell to $23m on $508m of revenue.
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Backed Finance's X Layer market cap grew 187.2% in a month to $172.8m across more than 900 tokenized US equities and ETFs. The largest single line is about $28.6m of that, and it comes with price exposure and no vote.
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Transaction V1 went live on Solana mainnet at epoch 1035 with a 4,096-byte ceiling. Senders opt in and the older formats keep working, so the required updates fall on RPC providers, indexers and explorers.
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Onchain equity venues cleared roughly $1.01bn across the closed Saturday and Sunday, then $398.3m on the holiday Monday. Per day that is about $505m against Friday's $1.02bn, and Robinhood Chain took the biggest single share.
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The synthetic tracks a company priced at roughly a quarter of its private peak, with about 5% of its shares actually floating, which makes the speed of the mirror more interesting than the instrument.
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OKX's layer 2 went from no tokenized equities to roughly $91.5 million in three months. How that balance is distributed across 836 listings says more about the demand behind it than the headline figure does.
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Token Terminal puts tokenized equity and ETF deposits across DeFi at $67.6m, most of it on Solana. One Solana lending market, Kamino Lend, holds $41.7m of that, and the published chain-level figures do not sum to the stated total.
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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.
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The check values Kraken's parent at $21 billion and buys Nasdaq a minority stake plus a distribution partner in xStocks. The tokens it funds are due in the second quarter of 2027, and the rights they carry depend on issuers opting in.
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