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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said countries could use tokenization to raise capital and attract foreign investment.
CZ backed issuing tokenized assets across many blockchains, even though this splits liquidity between networks.
He said better interchangeability between issuers could help reduce some of that liquidity fragmentation.
BNB Chain reported about 776,000 RWA holders, a jump of roughly 370% in 30 days, according to RWA.xyz data.
Tokenized shares stay classified as securities and must follow the same laws as traditional stocks and bonds.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, widely known as CZ, said on August 21 that countries could use tokenization to raise money and pull in foreign investment. He posted the idea on X, writing that governments and companies both have reasons to sell tokenized shares to buyers around the world.
Tokenization turns ownership of an asset into a digital unit that lives on a blockchain. Shares, bonds, funds, property and commodities can all be represented this way.
Let's tokenize everything.
Tokenization is one of the best ways for countries to "raise money", or attract FDI (Foreign Direct Investment).
Which country/company won't want to sell their (tokenized) stocks to everyone in the world?
I support tokenization on all blockchains.… https://t.co/RHuVzIB4D3
— CZ 
BNB (@cz_binance) August 21, 2026
CZ argued that this method could help draw in foreign direct investment, or FDI. FDI usually means a foreign investor takes a lasting stake and holds at least 10% of a company’s voting power, based on the OECD’s definition.
Smaller token purchases would likely count as portfolio investment instead. Whether a sale qualifies as FDI depends on the buyer’s location, ownership share and voting rights.
Multiple Blockchains, One Idea
CZ also said he supports putting tokenized assets on many different blockchains rather than picking just one. He said this lets more teams build tokenization tools at the same time.
This approach splits trading activity and money across separate markets. That split can lead to different prices, wider gaps between buy and sell orders, and thinner trading books for the same underlying asset.
Using bridges and different issuers can also add technical and custody risks. CZ said strong interchangeability between issuers could ease some of these problems.
He did not lay out a specific technical standard for how that would work. Making it work would need matching redemption rules, backing methods and legal claims across platforms.
Other projects are already testing this multi chain approach. Ondo has built infrastructure that moves tokenized stocks between blockchain networks while keeping the backing intact.
Tokenized U.S. stocks have also expanded onto Hyperliquid’s trading platform. These moves show issuers chasing liquidity across more than one blockchain ecosystem.
BNB Chain Reports Fast Holder Growth
CZ’s comments came shortly after BNB Chain said it had reached about 776,000 holders of tokenized real world assets. That marks a rise of close to 370% over the past 30 days.
RWA.xyz recorded 776,428 RWA holders as of August 19. The site listed $5.8 billion in distributed asset value spread across 1,284 assets.
These numbers reflect categories chosen by the data provider. They do not prove real foreign investment or confirm demand for any specific national asset.
A blockchain address also does not always represent a single person. One investor can hold several addresses.
BNB Chain’s recent growth has included institutional products too. The network reportedly secured 61.7% of assets on Franklin Templeton’s Benji platform, worth about $1.5 billion at the time.
Tokenized shares still fall under the same legal rules as regular securities. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in January that stocks and bonds do not lose their legal status just because they sit on a blockchain.
CZ did not name any country preparing a tokenized share offering. He also gave no timeline for when such a product might launch.
Future progress will depend on issuers, governments and regulators agreeing on rules for ownership, transfers and cross border access.
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