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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.
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What happened
- Entities in the British Virgin Islands had issued 305 tokenized securities by June 2026, more than any other jurisdiction.
- Abu Dhabi Global Market hosts exchange-sponsored products including Binance bStocks, launched in June, and draws exchanges with its English common law framework.
- Single stocks make up about 81% of tokenized equity supply, with ETFs well behind.
Why it matters
- exposure A rule change in Jersey alone would reach about $651 million of tokens, roughly 22% of the whole tokenized stock market.
- contradiction Jersey's reported share matches its slice of the $2.37 billion issuer pool, so the report's percentages and its $2.93 billion total appear to use different bases.
- constraint Until RWA.xyz splits the remaining $1.72 billion between the BVI and ADGM, any estimate of exposure to those two hubs rests on product counts and launch dates.
Jersey is the only one of the three hubs sized in dollars: roughly 27.4% of the tokenized equity market, worth about $651.4 million, according to RWA.xyz data collated in September and cited by Crypto Briefing [5]. Divide the dollars by the share and the base comes to about $2.38 billion [13]. The market total is $2.93 billion [2]. Take 81% of that, the share held by the dominant issuers [1], and you get about $2.37 billion [12]. Jersey's implied base is within rounding of that figure.
The 27.4% therefore fits a share of the issuer pool better than a share of the whole market. Against the issuer pool, Jersey's $651.4 million works out to 27.4% exactly [17]. Against the full $2.93 billion it is about 22.2% [14]. Had 27.4% applied to the full total, Jersey would hold about $803 million, some $151 million more than reported [15].
The 81% belongs to issuers, or rather to Ondo, Kraken's xStocks, Binance bStocks and the other large ones [1]. The report then places their SPVs, which hold the underlying shares and issue tokens backed 1:1, in the BVI, Jersey and Abu Dhabi Global Market [3][4]. Strip out Jersey's $651.4 million and about $1.72 billion of the issuer pool remains to be split among the BVI, ADGM and any vehicle elsewhere [16]. The BVI's lead is a product count of 305 [6], dated June, while the value snapshot is from mid-September [1]. A second 81% in the report measures something else: the share of tokenized equity supply made up of single stocks [8].
The report does not address whether US or UK securities rules reach any of these holders. Its narrower point is that a holder's claim usually runs through the SPV, and that two tokens tracking the same company can carry different legal profiles depending on where and how they were issued [9][10]. One hub borrows from English law. According to the report, ADGM draws exchanges and institutions with its English common law framework [7].
The concentration can move in more than one direction. Jersey's lead could hold, keeping about a fifth of the market under one jurisdiction's rules [14]. The BVI could turn its product count into value. ADGM's exchange-sponsored products, bStocks among them since June [7], could pull value toward Abu Dhabi.
I think the concentration is real at the issuer level. The three-hub version is sized in dollars for one hub and inferred for the other two. Crypto Briefing concludes that a regulatory shift in any one hub could ripple across a large share of the sector [11]. On the dollars published, that holds for Jersey. The view is wrong if RWA.xyz measured the 27.4% against the whole market on a different date from the $2.93 billion total. In that case the two figures come from different snapshots, and the match with the issuer pool is a coincidence.
What to watch
- An RWA.xyz value breakdown for the BVI and ADGM against the $2.93 billion total, which would size the other two hubs and settle which base the 27.4% uses.
- Jersey's share in the next RWA.xyz snapshot, as ADGM-based products such as bStocks, live since June, add value.
- Any rule change by Jersey, BVI or ADGM authorities on SPVs that issue share-backed tokens.
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- [1]
As of mid-September 2026, the dominant issuers of tokenized equities, including Ondo, Kraken's xStocks and Binance bStocks, account for approximately 81% of total distributed tokenized equity value.
- [2]
Total distributed tokenized equity value sits at around $2.93 billion.
- [3]
The major issuers run tokenized stock products through offshore special purpose vehicles that hold the underlying shares and issue tokens backed 1:1 against them.
- [4]
Those SPVs cluster in three jurisdictions: the BVI, Jersey, and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) in the UAE.
- [5]
According to RWA.xyz data collated as of September 2026, Jersey-domiciled products hold roughly 27.4% of the tokenized equity market, worth about $651.4 million; Jersey leads by value.
- [6]
BVI-based entities had issued 305 tokenized securities as of June 2026, the highest count of any jurisdiction.
- [7]
ADGM has become a hub for exchange-sponsored tokenized stock products, including Binance bStocks, which launched in June 2026; ADGM's draw is its English common law framework, which has proven appealing to exchanges and institutional players.
- [8]
Single stocks make up about 81% of the equity tokenization supply, with ETFs trailing well behind.
- [9]
For anyone holding a tokenized stock, the claim usually runs through an SPV in one of these jurisdictions, not directly against the company whose share is being tracked.
- [10]
Issuer structure, custody arrangement and governing law are part of the investment itself; two tokens tracking the same company could carry different legal profiles depending on where and how they were issued.
- [11]
Having roughly 81% of distributed value flow through a handful of issuers and three jurisdictions means a regulatory shift in any one of these hubs could ripple across a large share of the sector at once.
- [12]
The dominant issuers hold about $2.37 billion of tokenized equity value.
- [13]
Jersey's reported share and dollar value imply a market base of about $2.38 billion.
- [14]
Jersey's $651.4 million is about 22.2% of the $2.93 billion total.
- [15]
27.4% of $2.93 billion is about $803 million, roughly $151 million more than Jersey's reported $651.4 million.
- [16]
Excluding Jersey, about $1.72 billion of the dominant-issuer pool remains unassigned to a specific hub.
- [17]
Jersey's $651.4 million is about 27.4% of the roughly $2.37 billion dominant-issuer pool.
Sources
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- cryptobriefing.comJersey, BVI and UAE dominate the tokenized stock market
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