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Tokenized Stocks Are Becoming a Real DeFi Market The interesting part of tokenized equities is no longer the fact that stocks can live on-chain. It is what people are starting to do with them. Tokenized stock deposits in DeFi have reached roughly $192.6M, with Uniswap V4 holding about $59.1M and Kamino around $41.7M. That changes the narrative. This is moving from simple tokenization toward financial composability. A tokenized stock can potentially be traded, supplied as collateral, integrated into lending markets, and connected to other on-chain financial products. And the market is expanding quickly. Tokenized equity trading reached nearly $3B in weekly volume in August, while Coinbase has also launched tokenized U.S. equities on Base. The infrastructure race is becoming interesting. My radar: $ETH — Still the deepest settlement layer for DeFi liquidity. $SOL — Increasingly relevant for high-throughput tokenized asset markets. $UNI — Uniswap V4 is already leading DeFi tokenized-stock deposits. $AAVE — Lending is where tokenized equities could become more useful than simple trading. $JUP — Solana liquidity infrastructure could benefit as tokenized assets expand. $ONDO — One of the clearest bridges between traditional assets and on-chain markets. $LINK — Oracles become critical when real-world securities interact with DeFi. $BNB — Watching whether its ecosystem captures more tokenized-equity liquidity. $ARB $OP — L2s remain natural candidates for cheaper financial settlement. $SUI $APT — High-performance chains could compete for the next wave of RWA activity. But there is an important issue. What exactly do you own? Many tokenized stocks are issued through third-party structures rather than directly by the underlying company. That can affect shareholder rights, governance and the legal relationship between the token holder and the actual equity issuer. That is why I don't think the biggest question is whether stocks will be tokenized. They already are. #BTCGoldCorr+0.50 #HammackBacksHike #ZECRanks10thByMarketCap