What happens to dividends if a share is a token? šŸ‘€

This is where bStocks become much more interesting than just a ā€œblockchain share.ā€

With a regular stock, a dividend is a payment to the owner.

With bStocks, the mechanism is different.

A dividend doesn’t come to you as a separate payment in USDT or dollars.

Instead, its net value is automatically reinvested into the underlying share.

After that, the Multiplier changes—and the number of bStocks in your balance increases proportionally.

So roughly:

šŸ“ˆ a share → generates a dividend
↓
šŸ’° dividend → reinvested
↓
šŸ”¢ Multiplier → updated
↓
šŸŖ™ your bStock balance → increases

And this happens without you having to manually press ā€œreinvest.ā€

There’s another important detail: before reinvesting, a U.S. dividend tax is applied—Binance Academy currently notes a 30% withholding tax.

So bStocks aren’t just ā€œtook a share and turned it into a token.ā€

Even something as classic as a dividend needs its own mechanism to work in a tokenized environment.

This is where the real on-chain financial infrastructure begins.