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Story: Tokenized Real-World Assets Hit $345 Billion as Kraken and DTCC Push Hard

By Pankaj K

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What Tokenization Actually Offers. The pitch for tokenized securities isn't complicated.

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Rights, Risks, and the Road to Mass Adoption. Some tokenized securities carry full shareholder rights — voting, dividends, the works.

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Tokenized assets crossed $345.07 billion in market value. That number, pulled from RWA.xyz data, is hard to ignore — and the institutions piling in are making it harder to…

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Kraken's xStocks platform now supports 100 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs and has clocked $25 billion in transaction volume since its June 2025 debut.

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Big infrastructure. Real money. Not a drill.

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The pitch for tokenized securities isn't complicated. Anton Efimenko from 8Blocks points to global trading capacity as a core benefit — the ability to move these assets across…

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That gap between capability and comprehension is probably the central tension in this whole market right now.

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Fernando Lillo Aranda from Zoomex put it plainly — mainstream success comes when the digital asset infrastructure turns invisible.

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Wu also made the point that clarity around product rights is crucial. And that's worth sitting with for a second, because not all tokenized securities are built the same way.

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Some tokenized securities carry full shareholder rights — voting, dividends, the works. Others offer only price exposure through a derivative wrapper.

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See also: Krakens Payward Brings Tokenized IPO Access to U.S. Retail Investors

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It's not just a retail problem either. Institutions need regulatory clarity before they commit serious capital to on-chain settlement or automated portfolio management through…

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The DTCC pilot is significant precisely because it comes from inside the traditional system. If the organization that clears and settles most U.S.

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Efimenko's take on investor psychology is worth repeating: he thinks investors will ultimately see tokenized stocks primarily as traditional stocks with added flexibility.

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24/7 trading is one concrete advantage that's hard to argue with. Traditional markets close. Tokenized securities don't have to.

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