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Story: Robinhood Chain and Solana Fuel $3B Surge in Tokenized Equity Market

By Pankaj K

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Solana's 114% Jump and BNB Chain's 700+ Listings. Solana's tokenized asset volume reached $5.77 billion in the second quarter.

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SEC Advisory Committee Weighs In on Settlement. Regulators are paying attention. The SEC's Investor Advisory Committee put out guidance on March…

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Lending Protocols Are Starting to Use Tokenized Stocks. Here's where it gets interesting beyond the trading numbers.

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Tokenized stocks are moving serious money. Weekly volume hit nearly $3 billion in August, with Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana doing the heavy lifting — and Grayscale's…

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The numbers are big but the context is bigger. Grayscale's report clocked a peak in weekly spot volume in early August, with the final week of its analysis period showing…

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Not really a surprise that Solana is in the mix.

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Solana's tokenized asset volume reached $5.77 billion in the second quarter. That's a 114% increase from the prior quarter. Tokenized equities alone contributed $4.

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BNB Chain is doing its own thing. A large market for tokenized equities has built up there, with multiple issuers active on the platform — Ondo Global Markets and Paimon Finance…

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Robinhood Chain is newer but moving fast. Its mainnet launched July 1, 2026, and it's already hosting three of the seven top-volume tokenized stocks.

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Decentralized exchanges are doing the actual work underneath all of this. Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and Raydium have been the primary trading venues moving tokenized equity volume,…

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Related: Robinhood Chain Surges to $4.13M Daily Revenue with 17M Transactions in Weeks

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Regulators are paying attention. The SEC's Investor Advisory Committee put out guidance on March 12 saying tokenized shares could settle payment and delivery in a single…

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The broader legal picture for tokenized equities is murky. These products can represent direct securities, claims against custodian-held shares, or other contractual arrangements…

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Here's where it gets interesting beyond the trading numbers. Grayscale's report tracks a tenfold rise over the past year in tokenized equities being deployed in lending protocols…

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The gap between "we trade these" and "we use these as collateral or in lending" is exactly what the 5% utilization figure is measuring.

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