Ondo Finance is changing how tokenized stocks can connect to real-world shares.
Ondo Finance has launched an in-kind conversion route that allows approved institutions to mint and redeem Ondo Stocks using the underlying shares through Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network.
The key idea is the conversion mechanism: eligible institutions can move between traditional equity exposure and tokenized representations without relying solely on cash-based settlement.
This could make tokenized equities more closely connected to the underlying market infrastructure, while giving institutions a more direct path into onchain assets.
For me, the bigger question is not simply whether stocks can be tokenized—it’s whether the rails can make that tokenization efficient, transparent, and usable at institutional scale.
Tokenized equities are increasingly becoming an infrastructure story, not just a crypto narrative.
$KERNEL
$TAO
$ONDO
Ondo Finance has launched an in-kind conversion route that allows approved institutions to mint and redeem Ondo Stocks using the underlying shares through Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network.
The key idea is the conversion mechanism: eligible institutions can move between traditional equity exposure and tokenized representations without relying solely on cash-based settlement.
This could make tokenized equities more closely connected to the underlying market infrastructure, while giving institutions a more direct path into onchain assets.
For me, the bigger question is not simply whether stocks can be tokenized—it’s whether the rails can make that tokenization efficient, transparent, and usable at institutional scale.
Tokenized equities are increasingly becoming an infrastructure story, not just a crypto narrative.
$KERNEL
$TAO
$ONDO
