Tokenized stock is interesting. But a tokenized stock that also pays a dividend is even more interesting.

Binance distributed a dividend $SPYB for SPY: $1.88 per share. An important detail: it’s not just cash that simply drops into your Spot wallet. After taxes and other expenses, the dividend is reinvested into additional units $SPYB , and for on-chain holders a multiplier adjustment is applied.

This is where the real bridge between TradFi and crypto infrastructure appears.

Tokenization becomes interesting not when you just put the word “token” on a stock. It becomes interesting when real economic mechanisms of the underlying asset start working inside the product.

And this aligns well with the new SEC Innovation Exemption: the regulator directly requires that qualifying tokenized NMS stock has rights, including the right to dividends. But I wouldn’t rush to automatically equate bStocks with this regime. Binance’s legal structure has its own specifics.

I think it’s exactly these kinds of details that need to be tested to see how much tokenization truly changes the financial infrastructure.

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