Binance Research has released a fresh report: tokenized assets have become the fastest-growing RWA category in 2026. Since January, the sector has grown more than 4x — from ~$0.7 billion to $3 billion.

— The entire RWA market — $38 billion (+50% since the start of the year), tokenized assets in it are already ~8%

— bStocks — $0.8 billion, a quarter of the entire sector in less than 4 months. The fastest-growing product of the year

— BNB Chain — the only network to reach $1 billion (34% of the market) and the leader by holders: 1.8 million versus 1.5 million for Robinhood and 600 thousand for Solana

— On-chain transfers in Q3 totaled more than $100 billion. In Q1 it was $6 billion, meaning a 16x increase

The main change is that people started doing something with these assets. Previously, they were just held — now they’re used as collateral in lending, put into liquidity pools, and deployed across protocols: the share of tokenized assets operating in DeFi has grown over the year from 1.8% to 6.3%.

The trading structure is changing too. A year ago, the share of tokenized assets in DEX volume was practically zero, and by September it reached 11% — and it’s already closing in on memecoins with their 17%. In other words, speculative on-chain volume is gradually giving way to assets backed by the real economy.

And the most interesting part is that tokenization is now starting not months later, but right at the moment of the IPO. In SPCX, 65% of the tokens were issued in the very first week after listing, and today it’s the largest tokenized asset on the market.

We won’t stop repeating to you what’s being written right before your eyes 😠, namely the closest overlap between the Web2 and Web3 worlds. On-chain is no longer only about crypto-native things—it’s about assets everyone is familiar with.

→ Read the full report by Binance Research

The market is changing before our eyes — and we’re right at the center 💛