Here's what happened when the SEC opened a door for tokenized stocks onchain.
Every trader knows the frustration of watching names like Nvidia run while their crypto sits isolated in a wallet. Switching between a brokerage and DeFi still takes days and costs real money, and more than a few people have already been rugged by fake tokenized share projects with nothing behind them.
This looks a lot like the Bitcoin ETF moment. Those products pulled in tens of billions within months of going live. Tokenized stocks could go further with 24/7 trading and the ability to use actual shares as DeFi collateral. $ONDO already proved the model with tokenized treasuries at scale. Most serious experiments settle on $ETH, and $LINK oracles would be what keeps the onchain price honest against the real close.
The 2018 security token wave died from pure regulatory hostility. This time the SEC is writing the rules instead of just suing. That is the difference that actually matters.
Where do you think this goes from here?
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