OKX has filed with the SEC to launch tokenized-stock trading in the US, Bloomberg reported, aiming at buyers barred from its 70-plus ticker offshore line. The SEC's new exemption admits only tokens with dividends and votes, so the synthetic product it sells abroad would need rebuilding first.
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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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Decentralized exchanges handled $48.7 billion of tokenized stock trades in a year, against roughly $3.2 billion to $4.4 billion of the stock in existence. Much of that trading ran through a few ETF-linked tokens, so the figure mostly measures churn in a small float.
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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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Geoff Kendrick's note puts ARB at $10 by 2030 from about $0.15, and the Expansion Program revenue behind that call splits 8% to the Arbitrum DAO treasury and 2% to a developer guild. A holder's claim on it runs through what the DAO spends.
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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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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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Castle Labs says liquidity, collateral use and interoperability decide what comes next for tokenized real-world assets. The 77.6% wrapper share quoted alongside that argument counts instruments, and the dollars sit in Treasuries.
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Token Terminal's September 12 snapshot counts 47 tokenized asset classes worth $346.1bn, with USD stablecoins supplying $298.5bn of that and the two main trackers disagreeing about the rest by roughly $9bn.
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RWA.xyz's count puts US T-bills at $15bn of a $46.2bn total and five assets at about 70% of it. Other trackers stop at $38bn, so the Treasury share of onchain finance moves seven points on the choice of tracker.
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Bitmine's 5,929,198 ETH is worth about $14.79bn at $2,495 a token, against $15.7bn of total assets, and the $330m of staking revenue the company projects is the smaller half of that arithmetic.
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The relief arrives by default if nobody requests a hearing, which leaves the fee as the open question: strip out distribution charges and all three existing classes cost the same 2.75%, and the tokenized one is blank.
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The thing AMC wants withdrawn is debt issued by a Jersey subsidiary, so the buyer holds a cinema chain's price and Robinhood's solvency in one position, and the SEC line separating the two tokenisation routes binds nobody.
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Payward held about $606m of a $2.5bn tokenized equity market in August, barely ahead of Binance's two-month-old product, and the LSE deal buys it inventory it could not get any other way while leaving UK investors out.
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Holders doubled to 1.31 million and monthly transfers reached $23.13 billion against a $2.38 billion base, which reads as a working venue only if those transfers are trades somebody pays for.
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Three launch strategies, two of them nearly the same basket, sold on speed against ETF timelines into a category rwa.xyz sizes at $2.49 billion.
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Monthly volume in tokenized equities went from $1B in January to $9B, with most of the move in June and July. The product did not change. The front ends did.
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BUIDL, USDY and Galaxy's SWEEP now sit on Solana. Ethereum still holds roughly 43% of a $16.23B market, but last month's net flows did not go there.
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