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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BNB Chain overtakes Stellar to hold 59.8% of Franklin Templeton's onchain fund assets
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 stocks traded about $14.3 billion onchain outside the US in 30 days, roughly 3 to 4.8 times their estimated market cap
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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New tokens in the top 100 post a median 27.5% return while older-cycle tokens all show losses
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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Nearly all of the $3.4 billion in weekly tokenized stock volume sits on Solana
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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- Evidence35
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XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation splits payment and compliance duties without capping amounts
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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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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Binance and Ondo wrap most of the estimated $314 million to $345 million in tokenized Circle stock
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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USDC drives a 33% jump in crypto card spending to $4.31 billion
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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Most new tokenized-commodity wallets land on chains holding 5% of the sector's value
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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Securitize's SECZ has taken in more since July than BNB Chain's lead in tokenized stocks
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 gives liquidity providers 90% of Infinity fees on Robinhood Chain and Arc
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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Robinhood Chain draws within $16 million of Solana in tokenized stocks deployed in DeFi
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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Two chains hold 72% of the 4.3 million wallets now carrying tokenized stocks
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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- Evidence55
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ZetaChain shuts its Cosmos chain to follow a 300,000-user AI app onto Solana
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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- Evidence48
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+24
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