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The market for tokenized stocks reached a record $2.3 billion in market capitalization in mid-July, according to Token Terminal data, nearly doubling since March, when the sector first cleared $1 billion, and the growth is showing up across every major issuer at once.
On July 21 alone, Artemis data recorded all-time highs for Ondo Finance's tokenized shares outstanding (514.5 million) and holder count (93,880), Backed Finance's tokenized market cap ($579.4 million), and Robinhood Chain's tokenized shares (126,720) and equity holder count (36,170).
Arcus, the tokenized-stock exchange launched this month by the team behind dYdX, posted record daily perps volume of $11.9 million and record open interest of $6.8 million the same day.
Ethereum leads the sector with 34% of tokenized stock market share, followed by $BNB Chain at 30% and Solana at 23%, per Token Terminal. Tokenized stocks remain a small corner of the broader tokenized real-world asset market — roughly 5% by Token Terminal's count, while DefiLlama tracks about $27.3 billion in active RWA market cap — but they have been the fastest-growing asset class on Ethereum this year.
Ondo Extends Its Lead
Ondo Finance is the largest issuer with $955 million in onchain equities, per Token Terminal, and its July has been dense with catalysts. The firm partnered with Japan's SBI Group on July 16 to tokenize Japanese stocks and explore settlement in JPYSC, SBI's trust-backed yen stablecoin. It also switched on 24/7 minting and redemption for tokenized US stocks and ETFs, added voting rights to its tokenized stocks, and enabled tokenized stock collateral on OndoPerps, its perpetual futures venue — the product behind its record $39.8 million in open interest, per Artemis.
The firm's catalog has passed 430 tokenized stocks and ETFs across Ethereum, Solana, and $BNB Chain, and its distribution now runs through MetaMask and Felix on Hyperliquid.
ONDO traded around $0.41 on July 22 with a market capitalization of $1.99 billion, near the top of its seven-day range of $0.32 to $0.41, per CoinGecko. The token jumped roughly 15% in the 24 hours after the SBI announcement.
Backed and the Exchange-Issued Wave
Backed Finance, the Swiss issuer behind the xStocks product distributed on Kraken, Bybit, and Solana DeFi, reached a record $579.4 million in tokenized market cap on July 21, per Artemis. Kraken said xStocks surpassed $25 billion in cumulative transaction volume within eight months of launch. Token Terminal puts xStocks' onchain holdings at $507 million, with Binance's bStocks third among issuers at $334 million — a sign exchange-issued products are becoming a distinct growth channel alongside DeFi-native issuers.
New Entrants: Robinhood Chain and Arcus
Robinhood's Stock Tokens, issued on the company's own Layer 2 that launched July 1, remain the smallest of the cohort at $19.3 million in tokenized market cap, but all three of the product's Artemis metrics — market cap, shares tokenized, and holder count — hit records on July 21. The tokens are available in more than 120 countries and are already being used as collateral on Lighter, a derivatives protocol on the chain.
The speculative layer is arriving too. Arcus, launched July 1 by dYdX Labs with investment from Robinhood Crypto, offers 24/7 spot trading on 95 stock tokens with zero fees and is rolling out perpetual futures on equities, commodities, and indices with up to 50x leverage. The exchange is not available in the US, UK, or Canada. Its record $11.9 million in daily perps volume, while small against crypto-native perps venues, is an early data point for leveraged trading built on tokenized equities.
The Road to $3B
An Ondo executive said in May the company expects the tokenized equity market to reach between $2.5 billion and $3 billion by year-end, per TheStreet. At the current pace — the sector has nearly doubled in four months — that target implies slower growth than the market is delivering.
Holder counts remain the metric to watch. Ondo's 93,880 and Robinhood Chain's 36,170 tokenized-equity holders are records, per Artemis, but are small next to any retail brokerage's user base. Whether 24/7 settlement, DeFi collateral use, and yen-settled Japanese stocks translate into sustained holder growth is what the next two quarters will show.