TLDR Tech / Crypto
Tokenized Stocks in America
Robinhood Chain, launched last month as the first EVM chain purpose-built for real-world assets, reached 100 million transactions while delivering Stock Tokens backed 1:1 by underlying shares to investors across 120+ countries, with US availability still blocked by legacy securities regulations. The case for US tokenization rests on three concrete improvements over traditional equity markets: real-time settlement that removes the T+2 clearinghouse pressure behind GameStop's trading restrictions, native 24/7 trading, and self-custody portability that lets holders use stock tokens as DeFi collateral or shift assets across platforms without multi-day ACAT transfers. Bringing these capabilities to American investors requires regulators to adapt securities rules to blockchain infrastructure rather than 20th-century market structure assumptions. Private company shares are the stated next frontier once public equity tokenization builds the liquidity and onchain ecosystem needed to support less liquid asset classes.
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