$5B in tokenized stock volume. Raydium is now the leading onchain AMM for tokenized stock trading on Solana. tokenization keeps growing, and $RAY is sitting right in the middle of it. still bullish.
my $RAY call on gg already did a 2x, but the price move is only part of why I’m still watching it.
what keeps me interested is everything Raydium has going on under the hood.
Raydium has already handled over $5B in tokenized trading volume on Solana, and a big chunk of that onchain activity continues to flow through Raydium.
now imagine where that can go if tokenized stocks and other real-world assets keep growing.
Raydium already has the liquidity, users, distribution, and fee engine to benefit from that growth.
more trading brings in more fees. part of those fees goes back into buying $RAY from the open market. LaunchLab adds another source of activity on top of that.
then there’s the SEC Innovation Exemption to keep an eye on. If it moves forward, it could open the door to more assets coming onchain, more tokenization partnerships, and a much bigger market for Solana.
Raydium already has the infrastructure in place.
the 2x was nice.
I’m more interested in seeing how far this can go if the flywheel keeps growing.
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raydium has already used around $200m to buy back roughly 30% of the circulating supply. team unlocks ended in feb 2024, and 12% of every swap fee still goes into buying $RAY on the open market.
we already saw what this can do this month. launchlab volume, tokenised-stock trading and a $640k single-day buyback helped push $RAY close to $1.75.
as always... more activity on raydium means more fees, more buybacks and less $RAY sitting on the market. bullish
there are only around 270m tokens circulating. all we need is solana dex volume, launches and tokenised assets to keep growing to send $RAY much higher.
ath is still far, but the path back to it is there.
Since my September 1 post, $RAY is up around 2.18x.
The move has been backed by real flow too.
StonkFun moved new launches to Raydium LaunchLab, Raydium printed its largest daily buyback ever on September 9, and $RAYCAT is adding another source of demand through its RAY pair and holder rewards.
$RAY is now up roughly 94% on the week.
The setup remains the same: stronger activity, higher fee capture, more room for buybacks.